Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance

Mario La Torre is Professor of Banking and Finance and Sustainable Finance at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and author of the blog Good in Finance. His research revolves around banking, financial intermediaries and financial innovation. Also an expert in ethical finance, microfinance and finance for the audiovisual industry, Mario is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. He is a member of the Board of the Italian National Body for Microcredit, and was previously a member of the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investments. As well as publishing in academic journals, Mario is the co-editor of Socially Responsible Investments (Palgrave, 2019) and Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance (2020). Helen Chiappini is Assistant Professor at G. D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches Sustainable Finance and Corporate Finance. Helen is the sub-series editor of Palgrave Studies in Green Finance and GuestEditor of Sustainability. Her areas of research include sustainable finance, bank non-performing loans and corporate governance. As well as publishing in academic journals, she has written and co-edited three books: Social Impact Funds (Palgrave, 2017), Socially Responsible Investments (Palgrave, 2019), and Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance (2020) .

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Sustainable products.- Chapter 2: Who likes SIBs?  A bibliometric analysis of academic literature.- Chapter 3: Fighting Poverty And Inequalities Through Social Impact Bonds: Learning From Case Studies For Supporting The Covid-19 Response.- Chapter 4.Green bonds capital returns: the impact of market and macroeconomic variables.- Part 2: Financial institutions and sustainable practices.- Chapter 5: Crowdlending’s European regulation state of art, and the case of COLECTUAL as an official Spanish crowdlending platform.- Chapter 6: Understanding of Social Crowdfunding: The case of an Italian platform.- Chapter 7: Environmental, Social, and Governance Integration in Asset Management Strategy: The Case of Candriam.- Chapter 8: Impact Investing in Family Foundations: Beyond the Business Case for CSR.- Chapter 9. Norwegian pension fund divestments and the market effect.- Part 3: Investee organizations and impact measurement.- Chapter 10. Delivery Aid Differently: Women’s Empowerment through Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing in Myanmar.- Chapter 11: Social impact assessment: measurability and data management.- Chapter 12: Social impact assessment in Italian innovative startups.- Chapter 13: Concluding remarks.​