Big Banks

Citizens Bank Ends Funding For ICE Prison Companies

July 26, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. Resist! Big Banks, Detention Centers, Divestment, ICE

Following months of intense public pressure, Citizens Bank announced on July 17 that it would end its financing of immigration detention centers operated by CoreCivic and GEO Group. While the bank claims its decision was due to the federal government’s plans to purchase many of those companies’ facilities, it is more likely that the withdrawal of millions of dollars by protesting groups over the past few months was the key factor. After demonstrating at the bank’s annual shareholders’ meeting in April in Providence, Rhode Island, American Federation of Teachers-Rhode Island Federation of Teachers (AFT-RIFT) Local 6516, which represents 2,000 working graduate and undergraduate students at Brown University, pulled out $500,000 in deposits from the bank.

Fossil Fuel Financing Surged To $906 Billion In 2025

June 11, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. Educate! Big Banks, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Paris Agreement

Causing decades more of earth-warming carbon emissions, last year, the 65 largest banks heavily expanded their fossil fuel financing, committing $906 billion to industry companies — totalling $65 billion more than in 2024, according to a new report. Released today, the 2026 “Banking on Climate Chaos Report,” published annually by the Rainforest Action Network and its partner organizations, analyzes global banks’ fossil fuel financing data. For the third year in a row, JPMorgan Chase topped the rankings, the report says, committing $58.2 billion to fossil fuel companies, which marked a 12.6 percent increase from 2024.

Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing

January 28, 2026 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Big Banks, Class Struggle, Public Banks, Wealth redistribution

A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearly all of their 2025 profits to shareholders. Goldman Sachs returned $16.78 billion on $17.18 billion in earnings, meaning 97.7% of its earnings went to shareholders. Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Bank of America collectively returned tens of billions more. Across the six largest banks, roughly $100 billion flowed to shareholders in a single year. Banks enjoy a long list of public privileges — federally guaranteed deposits, public charters allowing them to create deposits on their books as loans, access to the Fed’s discount window for emergency credit, and federal bailouts when they get into serious trouble.

Hind Rajab Foundation Takes Aim At European Investment Bank

November 6, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Big Banks, Hind Rajab Foundation, International Law, Israel, War crimes

The Hind Rajab Foundation’s (HRF) complaint against the European Investment Bank (EIB) for alleged complicity in Israeli war crimes has advanced to a formal assessment phase within the bank’s Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM), Anadolu Agency reported on 4 November. HRF said the step is not merely procedural but represents “a political and legal milestone” and “a turning point,” forcing a European institution to reckon with its role in grave breaches of international law. The group described it as one of the first legal actions within the European Union that directly challenges the financial complicity of an EU institution in Israeli war crimes.

How A Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate The Federal Debt Crisis, Part I

October 4, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Big Banks, Federal Debt, Quantitative Easing, Treasury

The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independent of Congress and the Treasury. Its independence was formalized only in 1951, with a Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord that was not a law but a policy agreement redefining the relationship of the parties. In the 1930s and 1940s, before the Fed officially became “independent,” it worked with the federal government to fund the most productive period in our country’s history. We can and should do that again. In a Sept. 1 Substack post titled “Fed Faces Biggest Direct Challenge by a President Since JFK – and This Is a Good Thing,” UK Prof. Richard Werner shows that there is no evidence that more independent central banks deliver lower inflation.

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited In Publicly-Owned Banks

July 9, 2025 Ellen Brown, Web of Debt. Educate! Banking and Finance, Big Banks, Public Banking, Public ownership

A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of giant banks diverts that flow into an exponentially-growing self-feeding pool of digital profits for themselves. Rather than allowing the free exchange of labor and materials for production, our system of banking and credit has acted as a tourniquet on production and a drain on resources. Yet we cannot do without the functions banks perform; and one of these is the creation of “money” as dollar-denominated bank credit when they make loans. This advance of credit has taken the form of “fractional reserve” lending, which has been heavily criticized.

These Seven Banks Have Supplied Israel’s Genocide In Gaza

February 14, 2025 The Canary. Educate! Big Banks, Big Finance, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine

Seven US and European investment banks have been propping up Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza to the tune of nearly $20bn. And a certain notorious company in particular is dripping in bankrolling complicity: Goldman Sachs. A new investigation has revealed the scale of seven financial institutions role financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Netherlands-based financial research group Profundo conducted the vital new research, with Dutch NGOs BankTrack and PAX have publishing its critical findings. Significantly, the groups have uncovered that a small number of investment banks have played a crucial role in helping Israel meet the “significant funding needs” for its genocidal assault on Gaza.

Six Of The Largest US Banks Leave Net Zero Alliance Ahead Of Trump

January 9, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Bank of America, Big Banks, Citigroup, climate crisis, Donald Trump, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, net zero, Wells Fargo

Six of the largest banks in the United States have bowed out of the global Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), with the inauguration of Donald Trump predicted to bring political backlash concerning climate action, reported The Guardian. The latest to withdraw is JP Morgan, which followed Citigroup and Bank of America. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo have also left the United Nations-sponsored NZBA since the beginning of December. “JPMC is ending our membership in the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). We will continue to work independently to advance the interests of our Firm, our shareholders and our clients and remain focused on pragmatic solutions to help further low-carbon technologies while advancing energy security.

Over 800 Euro Banks Invest In Companies Supporting Illegal Settlements

November 30, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! BDS Movement, Big Banks, European Union (EU), Gaza, Illegal Settlements, Israel, Palestine

The Don’t Buy into Occupation (DBIO) coalition has issued its 2024 report highlighting the international companies and financial institutions that are actively involved with illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The DBIO coalition is a joint project between 24 Palestinian, regional, and European organizations. The newly released report shows that over the past three years, “822 European financial institutions (including banks, asset managers, insurance companies, and pension funds) had financial relationships with 58 companies that are actively involved with illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).”

Summer Of Heat Is Using Disruption To End Fossil Fuel Financing

August 30, 2024 Alice Hu, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Big Banks, climate crisis, Divestment, Fossil Fuel, Wall Street

With millions being displaced by wildfires and floods, famine spreading and entire countries getting submerged, the fossil fuel industry is driving us off the cliff and must be stopped. One strategy the climate movement can take to turn the tide is pressuring economic elites to remove their backing for Big Oil. This is the main focus of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience against financiers like Citigroup, which has poured more money into fossil fuel expansion than any other bank in the world since 2016. Since June 10, the campaign has organized multiple disruptive civil disobedience actions every single week.

Banks Financed Fossil Fuels By $6.9 Trillion Since The Paris Agreement

May 14, 2024 Shawna Ambrose, Rainforest Action Network. Educate! Big Banks, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Investments, Paris Agreement

The 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks in leading roles. It cuts through greenwash, covering the world’s top 60 banks’ lending and underwriting to over 4,200 fossil fuel companies and the financing of companies causing the degradation of the Amazon and Arctic. Backgrounder of the report’s key findings can be found here. Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half – $3.3 trillion – went towards fossil fuel expansion.

Communities Protest Banking Giant’s Annual Meeting Over Environmental Racism

April 21, 2024 Hannah Sharland, The Canary. Resist! Big Banks, Environment, Environmental racism, The Netherlands

Activists from the world are uniting against Dutch banking giant ING’s environmental racism. Specifically, at the company’s upcoming AGM they plan to call out ING’s financing of a big polluter and climate-wrecking industries harming marginalised communities throughout the Global North and South. On Monday 22 April community defenders from the US, Mexico, Brazil, Liberia, and the Czech Republic will attend ING’s AGM to call out the company’s financing for destructive big polluters. Fossil fuel finance accountability non-profit BankTrack and Netherlands climate campaign group Fossielvrij have facilitated their travel to Amsterdam, to take on the banking giant at this key meeting.

Indigenous Leaders, Land Defenders Censored At RBC’s Annual Meeting

April 18, 2024 Kiah Lucero, Rabble. Educate! Big Banks, Censorship, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land defenders, Wet'suwet'un

Indigenous leaders and land defenders attended Royal Bank of Canada’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on April 11 to send the bank their message: put an end to fossil fuel financing. Delegates from across North America travelled to Toronto, O to criticize RBC’s ongoing funding of fossil fuel projects and their violations of Indigenous and human rights. But RBC’s efforts to listen to Indigenous and frontline land defenders were shallow to say the least. During the questioning period, a mere 60 seconds were allotted to delegates, some of which were interrupted by RBC’s board, executives and shareholders.

The Fed Is Behind The Credit Card Merger

March 3, 2024 Matt Stoller, The Lever. Educate! Big Banks, Credit Cards, Federal Reserve, Finance and the Economy

It’s an obvious point, but credit cards in America generate a lot of cash for banks. In 2022, I wrote up how the business works, with the observation that the industry generates close to a quarter trillion dollars a year in revenue. This revenue comes from fees for connecting merchants and banks, as well as fees charged to consumers for access to credit. Every credit card network is also a data sieve, connected to advertising data brokers, anti-fraud features, and analytics firms. In addition, being able to reject someone from the payments system is a core sovereign power, and the stated reason the right is so afraid of a central bank digital currency.

Defusing The Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions

February 15, 2024 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Big Banks, Capitalism, Derivatives, Dodd Frank Act

This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled “Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?”, discussing the threat of a 2024 “black swan” event that could pop the derivatives bubble. That bubble is now over ten times the GDP of the world and is so interconnected and fragile that an unanticipated crisis could trigger the collapse not just of the bubble but of the economy. To avoid that result, in the event of the bankruptcy of a major financial institution, derivative claimants are put first in line to grab the assets — not just the deposits of customers but their stocks and bonds. This is made possible by the Uniform Commercial Code, under which all assets held by brokers, banks and “central clearing parties” have been “dematerialized” into fungible pools and are held in “street name.”

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