BankTrack's Max Hammer is attending today's Raiffeisen Bank International AGM, while activists outside protest the bank's ties to fossil fuels, military tech companies, and the Russian war economy.
Follow the day's key takeaways here:
Wow, good for Canada's forests. But as the vid says, Drax will keep burning wood from elsewhere, including US forests, on a massive scale. This power plant is 52 years old! Time for the UK government to shut it down and fund a just transition. #StopBurningShit #AxeDrax
Our survey of over 800 Co-op Bank customers showed:
✅strong support for the merger with Coventry,
⚖️human rights and equality as the top ethical issue,
✋Most felt joining the Customer Union made them more likely to stay with the bank.
Read more : customerunion.coop/newsletter-2...
🚨 RALLY 🚨
📍 Wiener Stadthalle
⏰ 9 April, 09:30
On 9 April, Raiffeisen Bank holds its Annual General Meeting in Vienna — we won’t stay silent while it helps sustain Russia’s war.
Raiffeisen must be held accountable. Join us!
#ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar
@banktrack.bsky.social
“If my client, who accounts for less than 2 percent of sales of crack to children, were to shut down his crack-selling operations, crack smoking among children would still continue,” said the drug dealer's lawyer on Thursday.
Great to see the Co-operative Bank puting its ethical and planet-friendly values front and centre.
H/T @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social.
#Co-ops
#Co-operatives
#Mutuals
www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/co-oper...
Dear @linkedin.com
No, I do not wish to follow Bill Gates. Please stop asking.
Best wishes,
Ryan
@cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social. Hopefully some more Coop customers soon with actions like this around the country. youtube.com/shorts/YS498...
A coalition of civil society organisations is urging the UK government not to renew public sector contracts with TotalEnergies while it continues to import Russian gas to Europe.
razomwestand.com/ukrainian-ca...
@razomwestand.bsky.social @b4ukraine.org
#StandWithUkraine
Board of Peace - Season 1
A major investigation into the murder of Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 concludes this was an organized criminal operation funded by money from two development banks, CABEI and FMO.
#JusticeForBerta
insightcrime.org/news/report-...
This from Geoffrey Robertson QC is generous to Starmer. He surely must now stand up to Trump and condemn this egregious act of aggression.
I can't see it happening.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."
The Co-op Bank needs to:
📱 improve digital platforms
📣 communicate its ethics boldly again
✊ take a position, on issues from Palestine to AI ethics and the rise of the far right.
This can't wait until 2027 or 2028 whe the merger with Coventry Building Society has been completed.
"My office is on its knees. The entire human rights ecosystem is in survival mode."
Somber words from Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts, as he opens the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.
Will be covering the Forum for @banktrack.bsky.social in the coming days.
#UNForumBHR
My intelligence tells me the ballroom donors possessed weapons that were capable of killing Dick Cheney within 45 minutes of an order to do so.
That would at least keep Wilders out. It's not everything but it's something.
That's my effort to work out what the exit polls mean. Let's see how it looks in the morning.
It's a good result in that Wilders has suffered, and his chances of being in the next coalition are down. But it's a bad result for the left.
Left votes moving to the centre looks like the main change going on here, which after two years of a failing right/far-right coalition is really not good.
So. The right has fractured, but not really lost seats overall. PVV losses more or less equal JA21 and FvD gains.
In the centre D66 and CDA soaked up all the losses from the NSC's total collapse, and gained a bunch more, it seems from the left.
Here's what 74 European banks considered "material" in their CSRD reporting. Bad news for "affected communities" (among other categories).
This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues.
Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard
#BizHumanRights
Image of protesters holding cardboard signs, calling on banks not to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Text reads: New Risk Briefing Oit Now. Over budget, delayed and dangerous, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline limps on. Download the paper at banktrack.org.
TotalEnergies financiers beware: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is eating up money, nature and livelihoods.
Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP
www.banktrack.org/article/tota...
“I have never advocated violence in the Netherlands” is an unintentionally hilarious line from this pro-Hamas edgelord.
#FreePalestine #humanrightsforall
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A new study shows how much the global oil and gas industry is contributing to renewable energy. And it is ... 1.42%.
scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...
This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".
It's almost as if we can't rely on the global banking sector to solve climate change
🖍️ Wij trekken de Rode Lijn. We eisen met 250.000 mensen actie van onze regering tegen de genocide in Gaza! #WijZijnMetMeer #RodeLijn
Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides funding to a huge number of good campaigning organisations, including ones working directly and fearlessly against Israel's genocide. So I don't agree with your analysis here.
"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-consistent pathway."
productiongap.org/2025report
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We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
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