Sustainability in Financial Industry

Dear Colleagues,

This Topical Collection focuses on sustainability practices in financial industry. I encourage the submission of empirical and theoretical contributions investigating innovative sustainable business models and sustainable financial instruments, also in light of the new regulatory frameworks on sustainable finance and climate risk. Moreover, the Topical Collection welcomes research papers separately or jointly exploring the environmental, social, and financial performance (ESG) of both financial institutions and markets and the relationship between ESG performance and financial performance, also over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Themes of interest include but are not limited to:

• Innovative business models for sustainable finance;
• Innovative financial instruments and architectures for sustainability;
• Financial performance of sustainable instruments, institutions, and markets;
• Accountability practices in the field of sustainability;
• Impact of new sustainability regulations on financial markets and institutions.
• Strategies, challenges over the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. Helen Chiappini
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.