Rewarding with purpose 

Bringing finance and sustainability together, there’s a brand-new award on the horizon, and if you believe your organisation is leading the charge when it comes to building a sustainable future – you need to know all about the Global Good Finance Awards (GGFA).

Brought to you by the same team behind the highly credible, rigorous and prestigious Global Good Awards, this new scheme is aimed specifically at the finance sector and hopes to focus attention on the important role the sector plays in responding to the climate and nature crisis – and its crucial influence in making the transition happen.

With the Global Good Awards celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024, there’s no shortage of experience when it comes to running a highly ethical, yet rigorous judging process. The Finance Awards will be seeking to award companies who can demonstrate real, concrete actions that have driven change, and have the potential to drive it further, faster.

Who is eligible to enter the Global Good Finance Awards?

The eligibility criteria is wide and broad for these awards. If your organisation is serious about catalysing finance’s potential to do good, regardless of its size or age, you can enter. In fact, the GGFA are designed for organisations all across the financial sector, both B2B and B2C, including:

• Banks (Retail, Commercial, Investment).
• Investment (Wealth Management, Private Equity, Investors, Fund / Asset Management).
• Financial products (e.g., Bonds, ISAs).
• Insurance.
• Fintech.
• Financial communications.
• Transition Finance.
• Professional services for the finance sector, such as consultants, accountancy and tax advisors, law.

When is the deadline?

Entries will officially open on 3rd March 2025. The main entry deadline is 16th May – but if you can submit your entry before the 4th April Early Bird Deadline, then you receive a 20% discount on your entry. For late entries submitted up until 23rd May you will incur a £50 late entry fee, so it’s worth considering the earlier deadlines if you wish to make a saving.

What categories can I enter?

There are 16 categories up for grabs in the inaugural Global Good Finance Awards, with company-based, activity-led, customer-led, transformation and individual/team categories on offer. There is no limit to how many categories you enter, you should just ensure that you’ve viewed the judging criteria to ensure your story fits the bill.

Perhaps you believe your bank is a trailblazer when it comes to embedding social and environmental impacts into their lending decisions? You could be looking at the Bank of the Year category? Or check the Financial Inclusion Initiative of the Year category if you have been on a mission to help people access financial products that will improve their lives. If you’re an insurer and you have embedded social and environmental impacts into insurance decisions, then you should consider entering Insurer of the Year.

A robust and honest judging process

As the sister programme to the highly credible Global Good Awards, the Global Good Finance Awards (though run as a separate award programme) will follow the same rigor and structure. The Global Good Awards has set the standard when it comes to ethical, purpose-driven sustainability awards. It remains the sole sustainability awards scheme in the world to hold an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Awards Trust Mark, an accolade held since 2018. The Global Good Finance Awards currently hold ‘Standard’ accreditation with the Trust Mark (brand new awards programmes are unable to achieve anything higher) but the Global Good Finance Awards have already stated an intention to elevate the rating to ‘Outstanding’ once the first awards year is complete.

A qualified and experienced judging panel will lead the Global Good Finance Awards. All judges will be selected for their experience across both sustainability and finance and will all have substantial experience in making careful assessments. The judges will deliver expert scrutiny and assessment throughout the thorough, four-stage judging process, which includes:

• Main online judging round.
• Online investigative research of the top scoring entries.
• Judges reserve the right to ask any finalists for an interview, if they require further clarification of their application content.
• Final judging day, with an in-person gathering of judges at a central London location to decide on the ultimate winners.

What’s in it for us?

The accolade of winning one of the first ever Global Good Finance Award trophies! But seriously, an award win of this scale often recognises the hard work and achievements of your employees – so winning one naturally acts as a great motivator. Importantly though, these awards provide expert feedback to all entrants, regardless of whether they shortlist – so you’ve got nothing to lose by entering.

Fully practicing what they preach

Alongside its lively and engaging awards ceremony (featuring a fully plant-based menu at a leading sustainability venue), the Global Good Finance Awards is meticulous when it comes to practices like ‘greenwashing’, in fact, the scoring emphasis will be on real impact – not just aims, targets or roadmaps: judges are actively briefed to cut through the greenwash!

Rewarding with purpose 

Bringing finance and sustainability together, there’s a brand-new award on the horizon, and if you believe your organisation is leading the charge when it comes to building a sustainable future – you need to know all about the Global Good Finance Awards (GGFA).

Brought to you by the same team behind the highly credible, rigorous and prestigious Global Good Awards, this new scheme is aimed specifically at the finance sector and hopes to focus attention on the important role the sector plays in responding to the climate and nature crisis – and its crucial influence in making the transition happen.

With the Global Good Awards celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024, there’s no shortage of experience when it comes to running a highly ethical, yet rigorous judging process. The Finance Awards will be seeking to award companies who can demonstrate real, concrete actions that have driven change, and have the potential to drive it further, faster.

Why is the finance industry so important to sustainability?

It’s no secret that the finance industry is facing huge challenges in formulating a response to the climate and nature crisis. But what’s so crucial, is the power the industry has to influence how others respond. These awards are a celebration of harnessing that power to do good, share the absolute best practice, inspire others, and ultimately crack that challenge.

Who is eligible to enter the Global Good Finance Awards?

The eligibility criteria is wide and broad for these awards. If your organisation is serious about catalysing finance’s potential to do good, regardless of its size or age, you can enter. In fact, the GGFA are designed for organisations all across the financial sector, both B2B and B2C, including:

• Banks (Retail, Commercial, Investment).
• Investment (Wealth Management, Private Equity, Investors, Fund / Asset Management).
• Financial products (e.g., Bonds, ISAs).
• Insurance.
• Fintech.
• Financial communications.
• Transition Finance.
• Professional services for the finance sector, such as consultants, accountancy and tax advisors, law.

When is the deadline?

Entries will officially open on 3rd March 2025. The main entry deadline is 16th May – but if you can submit your entry before the 4th April Early Bird Deadline, then you receive a 20% discount on your entry. For late entries submitted up until 23rd May you will incur a £50 late entry fee, so it’s worth considering the earlier deadlines if you wish to make a saving.

What categories can I enter?

There are 16 categories up for grabs in the inaugural Global Good Finance Awards, with company-based, activity-led, customer-led, transformation and individual/team categories on offer. There is no limit to how many categories you enter, you should just ensure that you’ve viewed the judging criteria to ensure your story fits the bill.

Perhaps you believe your bank is a trailblazer when it comes to embedding social and environmental impacts into their lending decisions? You could be looking at the Bank of the Year category? Or check the Financial Inclusion Initiative of the Year category if you have been on a mission to help people access financial products that will improve their lives. If you’re an insurer and you have embedded social and environmental impacts into insurance decisions, then you should consider entering Insurer of the Year.

The full list of categories on offer are:

COMPANY-BASED

• Asset Manager of the Year
• Bank of the Year
• Insurer of the Year
• Private Equity Company of the Year
• Professional Services Company of the Year
• Wealth Manager of the Year
• Early Stage Investor of the Year

INDIVIDUAL/TEAM

• Sustainable Finance Leader of the Year
• Best Sustainable Finance Team of the Year

CUSTOMER-LED

• Financial Inclusion Initiative of the Year
• Financial Education Initiative of the Year

TRANSFORMATION

• Most Transformative Sustainable Finance Strategy of the Year

Each category has its own detailed description and judging criteria, you can view the full list of categories here.

A robust and honest judging process

As the sister programme to the highly credible Global Good Awards, the Global Good Finance Awards (though run as a separate award programme) will follow the same rigor and structure. The Global Good Awards has set the standard when it comes to ethical, purpose-driven sustainability awards. It remains the sole sustainability awards scheme in the world to hold an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Awards Trust Mark, an accolade held since 2018. The Global Good Finance Awards currently hold ‘Standard’ accreditation with the Trust Mark (brand new awards programmes are unable to achieve anything higher) but the Global Good Finance Awards have already stated an intention to elevate the rating to ‘Outstanding’ once the first awards year is complete.

A qualified and experienced judging panel will lead the Global Good Finance Awards. All judges will be selected for their experience across both sustainability and finance and will all have substantial experience in making careful assessments. The judges will deliver expert scrutiny and assessment throughout the thorough, four-stage judging process, which includes:

• Main online judging round.
• Online investigative research of the top scoring entries.
• Judges reserve the right to ask any finalists for an interview, if they require further clarification of their application content.
• Final judging day, with an in-person gathering of judges at a central London location to decide on the ultimate winners.

What’s in it for us?

The accolade of winning one of the first ever Global Good Finance Award trophies! But seriously, an award win of this scale often recognises the hard work and achievements of your employees – so winning one naturally acts as a great motivator. Importantly though, these awards provide expert feedback to all entrants, regardless of whether they shortlist – so you’ve got nothing to lose by entering.

Fully practicing what they preach

Alongside its lively and engaging awards ceremony (featuring a fully plant-based menu at a leading sustainability venue), the Global Good Finance Awards is meticulous when it comes to practices like ‘greenwashing’, in fact, the scoring emphasis will be on real impact – not just aims, targets or roadmaps: judges are actively briefed to cut through the greenwash!