WE BELIEVE IN A FINANCIAL SYSTEM WHICH SERVES PEOPLE AND PLANET
Our financial system has become disconnected from the real needs of people, the environment, the wider economy and society.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
People created the system and people can change it.
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Lab Strategy 2020-2030 – Summary
A summary of the Lab strategy 2020-2030, including our vision and values, theory of change, programmes and 10 year goals.
December 22, 2020
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Financing Good Growth in Every Postcode
This blog was first published in Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy By Nick Bryer, Director of Programmes at Finance Innovation Lab Andy Burnham and…
October 5, 2026
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Changing Finance: new this month – September
How dirty is the UK financial system? Here’s how the super-rich are buying UK democracy, how tax havens are thwarting transparency initiatives., and how the…
September 24, 2026
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MPs urge the Chancellor to back a Fair Banking Act for growth in every postcode
By Kay Polley 29 MPs have written to John Healey to back a Fair Banking Act to spread growth and affordable credit across the UK….
September 8, 2026
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Catalysing bank climate action:
Lessons from the inside
A new report published by the Finance Innovation Lab and Climate Safe Lending Network finds that banks need a total transformation of their sense of purpose to address the climate crisis.
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