Book contents
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- 1 The Bank for the Innovation Economy
- 2 The Origin of the Idea
- 3 Bank Atrophy and Outliers
- 4 The Stanford Professor and Two Bankers
- 5 Be Different from the Beginning
- 6 Against All Odds
- 7 Convincing the Banking Regulators
- 8 SVB Tech Lending and the Birth of Venture Debts
- 9 Leveraging the VC Relationships for Expansion
- 10 Into the Premature Future and Banks’ Almost Embrace of ESG
- 11 SVB’s Sudden Death and Lessons Learned from Banking Innovators
10 - Into the Premature Future and Banks’ Almost Embrace of ESG
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2024
Book contents
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- 1 The Bank for the Innovation Economy
- 2 The Origin of the Idea
- 3 Bank Atrophy and Outliers
- 4 The Stanford Professor and Two Bankers
- 5 Be Different from the Beginning
- 6 Against All Odds
- 7 Convincing the Banking Regulators
- 8 SVB Tech Lending and the Birth of Venture Debts
- 9 Leveraging the VC Relationships for Expansion
- 10 Into the Premature Future and Banks’ Almost Embrace of ESG
- 11 SVB’s Sudden Death and Lessons Learned from Banking Innovators
Summary
The Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic propelled many financial institutions, including banks, to adopt Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles. Banks disclosed their metrics in various reports showing that they were somewhat implementing efforts to address ESG in their business, operations, and management.
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- Silicon Valley BankThe Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech, pp. 217 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024