The ethics bank is a direct bank for ecological and ethical Investment, in Germany and Austria.

As branch of the cooperative bank iron mountain it has its seat in iron mountain and of Klaus Euler was based.

Activities

Investment

With all business activities the bank has strict positive and negative plant criteria.

Shares and industrial loans are bought only by enterprises, which fulfill certain positive standards:

• Environmental policy & - management systems
• Achievements within the environmental range
• considering the human rights
• Promotion, equal rights and variety of the coworkers
• Dialogue with coworkers, customers and suppliers
• Further training and personnel development
• Creation and receipt of jobs
• Precaution measures against corruption and bribery

Made in companies those into the ethical concept to fit will not become no investments, withdrawn in the further one investments already transacted, if positive criteria change in negatives.

These are selected on the basis a negative list:

• Armaments industry
• Uranium economy
• Plants or seeds genetically change
• Ozone layer-destructive chemicals manufacture or drive out
• Kinderarbeit permit

Government loans of negatively evaluated states are not transacted just as.

Customer

For private customers the ethics bank is a normal direct bank. It leads the classical products such as current account and on-line depot, daily and time deposits, savings letters and austerity plans.

The sold unit trust fund comes from Swiss private bank Sarasin, the two special lastingness funds drives out and not as with other German loan banks from the fund company union Invest.

The customer master comes of to a large extent from the middle social class.

The cash supply takes place at all money automats and free of charge with German people banks and Raiffeisen banks in the BankCard ServiceNetz.

Interest

0.25% the can be donated for certain woman, ethics and environment projects.

The following projects were for example supported:

• Bulgarian orphanage (with association for Bulgarian children's homes)
• in Afghanistan (with association for the support of schools for Afghan refugee children)
• Baikalrobbe (with that global Nature find)
• Baby flap in Hamburg
• Environment project in Thuringia

Related links

• ethikbank.de
• zeit.de - the good bank of iron mountain
• ethische-geldanlage.luebker.org - ethics bank
• oekofinanz.de - other alternative banks critical view because of missing transparency

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