The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) is an independent network of banks and banking cooperatives with a shared mission to use finance to deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental development. The Global Alliance comprises 40 financial institutions world wide; serving more than 41 million customers, hold up to $127 billion USD of combined assets under management, and are supported by more than 48,000 co-workers.
The alliance was founded in 2009. Membership is based upon a charter to use finance to find global solutions to international problems—and to promote a positive, viable alternative to the current financial system.
The secretariat is headquartered at Triodos Bank in The Netherlands
The GABV serves as a Chief Executive Officer network providing a unique space for leaders committed to values-based banking to collaborate and inspire. It also provides learning and development opportunities for senior executives, experts and employees at member banks.
GABV works with key partners to further the common purpose, such as Netherlands Development Finance Company, SFRE Fund, MIT Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), UNEP, the Rockefeller Foundation who co-funded the early stages of the GABV Financial Capital and Impact Metrics programme, and Georgetown University who delivered a high-profile event imagining a better future for the banking industry in 2013.
(2015)
GABV membership is based on the following set of criteria: