Green Banking Disclosure Practices in Emerging Economy

Abstract

Green banking is burning issue in both traditional banking and digital banking. The involvement of green banking ensures the customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and investors retention. The study is conducted to explore the green banking spending by the commercial banks in the emerging economy. A thematic approach has been applied to identify the green banking disclosure by the listed commercial banks. An one to one approach has been applied to identify the green banking disclosures by the selected banks. It is found the green banking spending by the commercial banks in Bangladesh are increasing although some of the banks do not perform any remarkable green banking disclosure. The results of the study portray the holistic green banking disclosure scenario in the context of an emerging economy Bangladesh.  It is expected that the findings of the study will entice the management of the banks to disclose more green banking disclosure related information in both online and offline media.

Keywords: Green banking disclosure, Emerging economy, Listed bank.

DOI: 10.7176/JESD/14-16-05

Publication date: October 2023