Financial Institutions’ Risk Profile and Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

Nicolás Gambetta, Fernando Azcárate-Llanes, Laura Sierra-García and María Antonia García-Benau
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Fernando Azcárate-Llanes: Faculty of Business, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Laura Sierra-García: Faculty of Business, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
María Antonia García-Benau: Faculty of Economics, Universitat de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-15

Abstract: This study analyses the impact of Spanish financial institutions’ risk profile on their contribution to the 2030 Agenda. Financial institutions play a significant role in ensuring financial inclusion and sustainable economic growth and usually incorporate environmental and social considerations into their risk management systems. The results show that financial institutions with less capital risk, with lower management efficiency and with higher market risk usually make higher contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to their sustainability reports. The novel aspect of the present study is that it identifies the risk profile of financial institutions that incorporate sustainability into their business operations and measure the impact generated in the environment and in society. The study findings have important implications for shareholders, investors and analysts, according to the view that sustainability reporting is a vehicle that financial institutions use to express their commitment to the 2030 Agenda and to higher quality corporate reporting.

Keywords: sustainable development goals; CAMELS framework; financial institutions; Spain; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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