Responsible Finance for Good Network

Our Responsible Finance for Good Network is a Fellows-led initiative designed to bring together those within the global RSA community that want to engage with the active process of making change happen.

The Financial Services sector is profoundly important to the wellbeing of society, to economic success and to political stability.

However, particularly since the Global Financial Crisis, people around the world are keen to ensure the fundamental integrity of the finance sector, for the benefit of all.

People are wondering:

• Is the finance sector safe, secure and trustworthy?
• Does it have a propensity to serve its own interests ahead of wider society’s?
• Is it always authentically committed to delivering good outcomes for its users?
• Is it serving ‘people and planet’ through a ‘sustainability-first’ mindset?
• Has it been guilty of putting ‘profit before people’ and ‘money before morals’?
• How we can drive up the levels of financial education and financial inclusion?
• What’s the actual purpose of the finance industry - and what should it be?

And for RSA Fellows in particular, we want to know how the RSA’s collective voice of solution-oriented leadership can be heard by those with the power and position to drive the kind of positive, progressive and purposeful reforms that are so desperately needed.

Our Responsible Finance for Good Network is all about RSA Fellows getting into constructive dialogue with politicians, policymakers and regulators through our collective endeavours.

What’s the potential for our Responsible Finance for Good Network?

There’s a chance for big societal impact, which is what the RSA is all about, because a network of engaged RSA Fellows with a change-making mindset that provides a focussed, agile and collective response to the significant challenges that we face, will be a powerful force for good in the world.

If the RSA’s Responsible Finance for Good Network is something you feel you can get quite enthusiastic about, you can join the conversation directly here on Circle or get in touch with the Network’s founder, Andy Agathangelou.

Andy has been a Fellow since 2017, runs Transparency Task Force (a Certified Social Enterprise) and he is also the Chair of the Secretariat Committee to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services

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