“Do we need an alternative banking?: ethical banking and cooperative banking” This is the title of a roundtable organized for Thursday in the auditorium of the Cultural Centre La Nau. The event is part of Claustre Obert programming, a space for discussion created by the University of Valencia, through the Department for Culture and Equality, and the newspaper El Pais. The session will begin at 19h. Admission to the event is free and limited to the capacity of the room, and can be followed live on television from the University of Valencia http://mediauni.uv.es/tv.
The participants in the roundtable are: Emili Villaescusa, president of the Confederación de Cooperativas de la Comunidad Valenciana, the responsible head of corporate social responsibility (CSR) Confederación Empresarial Española de la Economía Social CEPES, and member of the Comisión Permanente del Consejo Estatal de RSE; Francisco Alvarez Molina, president of Etica Family Office, former Director of the Bolsa de Valencia and promoter of the Economía del Bien Común and Joan Ramon Sanchis Palacio, full university professor of business administration and management from the University of Valencia, director of IUDESCOOP (University Institute on Social and Cooperative Economics).
The roundtable discussion will be presented and moderated by Josep Torrent Badia, delegate of El País at the Valencian Country.
The discussion is held regarding the launched book of Sanchis Palacio, 'The bank we need' (Publicacions University of Valencia, 2013). In this new book, the full university professor at the University of Valencia offers a new ethical and cooperative banks as alternative models to the financial system that caused the crisis. The book, whose reflections are the result of over 20 years dedicated to the study of financial institutions, offers a critical reflection on the evolution of banking in Spain followed and, above all, about the role it has played in triggering and deepening economic crisis.
The study provides insights on the possibility of promoting a banking alternative that has led us to the crisis "and keeps us from going out of it", analyzing the role of a new model of responsible banking, such as ethical banking and cooperative banks.
After the first chapters analyze the origins and historical evolution that has followed the banking in Spain, as well as the causes that led to the financial crisis after the summer of 2007 and, especially, the current critical situation of the bank from intervention and remediation of some of these entities by the FROB, the book aims to provide a dose of optimism "in a really complex scenario", to analyze the existence of an alternative banking based on the principles of ethics and transparency .
The platform for discussion of the University of Valencia NAU XXI (http://nauxxi.uv.es), contains more information about this book and on this issue as a prelude to this discussion. Afterwards, it will collect more documentation about this topic and other aspects related to the economy to be addressed in the cultural program of the University.
Last update: 19 de september de 2013 07:22.
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