HSBC Holdings has been reprimanded by a U.K. watchdog for violating environmental advertising rules, after it sought to depict itself as a green bank in a set of posters.

The world's biggest climate coalition for bankers says it has the right to ignore a proposal that would require members to phase out the financing of fossil fuels.

One of the original green challenger banks has elevated its chief sustainability officer into the role.

For some bankers, net zero is like a new year's resolution — a pledge one makes and often breaks before a year has passed.

The Rhode Island bank has launched a program that allows companies to use interest earned on their deposits to purchase credits. It's a way for companies to address climate change without reducing their own hard-to-abate emissions.

The biggest climate event of the calendar looks set to draw far fewer chief executives than it did just a year ago.

Women focused on environmental, social and governance issues are seeing career opportunities open as sustainable finance initiatives become more critical to a bank's success.

The megabank made its first-ever disclosures about financed emissions in a report aligned with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. "The complexity of this process only served to highlight the critical need for consistent, verified public reporting of emissions and other climate-related data," the bank stated.

Using a local beach as a canvas for its billboard — which vanishes as the tide comes in — the bank is drawing attention to how customers' financial choices can affect the environment.

In a report published Tuesday, the nonprofit Finance Watch estimates that the 60 largest global banks have about $1.35 trillion of credit exposures to fossil fuel assets.