Peter Blom Interview

“I think in the end we started to believe that the market is not a tool anymore but a way of life in itself... Now with all this Maya of finance gone, we are able again to ask what really matters?”

Peter Blom is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Triodos Bank Group. Triodos Bank is a leading European social bank providing financial services for a diverse range of sectors, from financing organic farming and renewable energy - both wind and solar - to cultural projects and micro credit. The Bank only lends to enterprises and projects that benefit people and the environment.

Triodos Bank’s mission is to make money work for positive change, providing a more human, transparent form of banking.

Triodos Bank was founded in 1980 in the Netherlands but has expanded to operate offices in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Spain with a total staff of almost 400 committed professionals.

Triodos Bank is known for its innovative, entrepreneurial approach and its groundbreaking work in these areas. The Bank has been able to deliver a modest but sustainable and growing profit. Its groundbreaking investment funds, all of which share a strong sustainable development profile, enjoy a significant and growing reputation. Triodos Bank wants to walk the talk and has developed a number of funds to meet its aspirations. Green Investment Funds, Ethical Investment Funds that benefit from Triodos’ own ethical research, micro credit funds, a cultural investment funds and a sustainable property investment fund have been successfully developed and promoted to thousands of European investors.

Mission
Triodos Bank finances companies, institutions and projects that add cultural value and benefit people and the environment, with the support of depositors and investors who want to encourage corporate social responsibility and a sustainable society.

- To help create a society that promotes people’s quality of life and that has human dignity at its core.
- To enable individuals, institutions and businesses to use money more consciously in ways that benefit people and the environment, and promote sustainable development.
- To offer our customers sustainable financial products and high quality service.

Media
| Interview

Comments

Post new comment

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <blockquote>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.

Log in to contribute