The Big Picture – Financial Flows
Influencing financial flows
Capital markets are dominated by banks that are ‘too big to fail’.
But smaller values-based banks, which base their decisions on the needs of people and the environment, have proved to outperform traditional mainstream banks on all indicators - including financial. In fact, value based banks have an average Equity/Asset ratio of more than 9% compared to less than 5% at mainstream banks.
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