Morals and Banking

 

This conference explores the question how modern banking practices can be reconciled with moral values. Without a doubt, banking, insurance and the financial intermediacy play a key role in any modern economy. Well-functioning capital market are essential to investment and capital accumulation driving economic growth and prosperity. However, these complex markets are driven by mixed morals. Profit seeking and self-interest is the major incentive for lending, risk taking and innovation. 

The conference programme will be clustered around three main themes: integrity and trust in the banking sector, socially responsible banking (SRI, religiously inspired banking, microfinances, and cooperative banking) and financial crises in the small and in the large.