Second Nature
Second Nature
Oxygen Conservation
E158 Mark Clayton: Is Your Bank Funding Extinction?
1 hour 38 minutes Posted Feb 12, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Most banks talk about values. Very few are willing to let those values shape decisions. Mark Clayton, CEO of Triodos Bank UK, leads a bank that treats impact as a discipline, not a slogan. Having worked at the heart of big finance, he understands how neutrality, risk, and growth are used to avoid responsibility — and what it takes to do things differently. This conversation goes inside the real trade-offs of values-led banking: how credit decisions are made, why nature-based solutions challen...