At JPMorgan Chase, CIO Guy Chiarello leads a team that's rewriting the bank's energy policy, and serving as one of the best examples yet of how sustainability and ecological soundness have clearly graduated from community relations to bottom line-focused enterprise strategy. The bank's green plays are freeing up thousands of square feet of corporate space, saving tons of paper by reimagining printing and documentation practices, and eliminating hundreds of airline trips through an innovative deployment of video conferencing — all sweeping efficiency moves that boost the bank's performance, and influence partners and suppliers downstream.
In BTN's second ranking of America's Greenest Banks, we explore the IT sustainability achievements and milestones reached by five banks: JPMorgan Chase; Citigroup, which returns to the list for a second time; Alpine Bank; U.S. Bank and UMB. All offer noteworthy examples of creative and effective uses of IT to improve sustainability, are setting the pace for the rest of the industry.
