SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL SYSTEM The ESG Banking and Finance, between Current Challenges and Future Prospects

The book follows the theoretical approach of the Economics of Financial Intermediaries scientific sector, which sees the financial system as a complex infrastructure made up of intermediaries and financial markets, financial instruments and a system of rules. The sustainable financial system sees these components move in compliance with the principles of sustainability, expressed in the three areas summarized by the acronym ESG, Environmental, Social and governance. In this way, sustainable financial intermediaries operate in compliance with and in favor of the environment, the rights of stakeholders and according to good governance and organization practices. Sustainable financial instruments allow money to be moved by pursuing ESG objectives, and regulation requires compliance with the principles of sustainability in financial intermediation, in the structure of the instruments and in the information documents. The book contains a valuable work of knowledge systematization on the topic of sustainable banking and finance, which includes both analysis and contributions to research and tools useful for financial education on the use of financial resources for the care of the “common home” and collective well-being.