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The Global Fair Banking Initiative (GFBI) is a cross-national collaboration to advance fair and inclusive financial systems everywhere in the world, along with effective standards and incentives that promote the highest professional benchmarks, best practices and responsive innovations from financial firms that are necessary to meet the evolving financial needs of diverse populations around the world.

This challenging work was initiated by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and its international partners, with funding from the Ford Foundation. In the past 4 years, the GFBI formed collaborations with groups in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Japan, Germany, the UK and a total of 79 countries. That work laid the groundwork for significant industry-community-government collaborations which are now beginning to bear fruit. For more information on our recent work, see the GFBI Global Report.

NCRC and its global partners work locally and internationally to achieve fair and equal access to capital, credit and other financial services

>Click here to download the Global Fair Banking Initiative Report.

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NCRC Announces Launch of the Global Community Reinvestment Coalition (GCRC)

In 2006, the GFBI and its global partners birthed a new coalition to promote cooperation on global fair lending issues: The Global Community Reinvestment Coalition (GlobalCRC). Though the GlobalCRC is new and, in many ways, still evolving in response to its international networks, it nonetheless carries the same commitment to principles of "Global Fair Banking", "Global Fair Lending" and "Global Fair Finance" at the core of the Global Fair Banking Initiative from the very beginning. See www.globalfairfinance.net for more.

Dates Set for 2nd Annual International Conference on Responsible Credit 2007

Building on the success of the 2006 annual conference, which brought nearly 200 representatives from 28 nations, the GlobalCRC and its partners, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the European Coalition for Responsible Credit are pleased to announce the 2007 international conference “Regulation, Education and Cooperation in Responsible Financial Services.” The conference will be held September 14-15, 2007 in Brussels. For more information, see the conference program here, or contact Jesse Van Tol, at jvantol@ncrc.org.

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