March 28, 2023 – Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) increasingly want to demonstrate their commitment to ESG standards. While ESG originated as a risk assessment model within capital markets, it is increasingly viewed as a set of institutional behaviors that align with regulations, nongovernmental frameworks, and investor/consumer preferences. Aite-Novarica Group research suggests that 68% of commercial clients are interested in having their FI help them define and achieve ESG goals.
This Impact Report assesses existing go-to-market ESG solutions for FIs and their commercial clients based on conversations with bankers and ESG professionals, research of the vendor landscape, and the author’s extensive knowledge of the market.
Clients of Aite-Novarica Group’s Commercial Banking & Payments service can download this report and the corresponding charts.
This report mentions ADP, Amalgamated Bank, Aspiration, BNY Mellon, CarbonPay, DailyPay, Fiserv Inc., McDonalds, Payactiv, Target, TD Bank, U.S. Bank, Visa, and Walmart.
About the Author

Benjamin Nestor
Benjamin Nestor is a Senior Associate with the Commercial Banking & Payments practice. He has nearly a decade of experience in higher education as a teacher, archivist, and researcher, in addition to a background in marketing. He has a Ph.D. (A.B.D.) and M.A. in History. As a doctoral candidate, he held numerous editorial positions and internships, published and presented widely, and...