Chrysovalantis Gaganis is Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics at the University of Crete, Greece. Fotios Pasiouras is Professor of Banking & Finance at Montpellier Business School, France. Menelaos Tasiou is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Data Analytics at the School of Economics, Accounting and Finance at the University of Portsmouth, UK.Constantin Zopounidis is Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research, at Technical University of Crete, Greece, Distinguished Research Professor in Audencia Business School, France, a Senior Academician of both the Royal Academy of Doctors and the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain.

• Preface – by Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras, Menelaos Tasiou, Constantin Zopounidis.- Chapter 1 – The changing role of banks in the financial system: social versus conventional banks, by Simon Cornée, Anastasia Cozarenco, Ariane Szafarz.- Chapter2 – ESG issues as strategic components of long‑term success of financial institutions: are there differences in financial performance and firm value? by Olaf Weber.- Chapter 3 – Corporate social responsibility, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in banking institutions: A literature review, by Stratos Kartsonakis and Evangelos Grigoroudis.- Chapter 4 – Socially and environmentally responsible investments and mutual funds, by Michalis Doumpos, Marianna Eskantar and Constantin Zopounidis.- Chapter 5 - Firm ESG practices and the terms of bank lending, by Mingying Cheng and Iftekhar Hasan.- Chapter 6 – ESG and credit risk, by Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras, Menelaos Tasiou.- Chapter 7 - The politics of climate finance and policy initiatives to promote sustainable finance and address ESG issues, by Paola D'Orazio.- Chapter 8 - The role of bank regulators in the promotion of green and climate finance, by Paola D'Orazio.