La Banca Ética en Europa: el enfoque del crédito como criterio de configuración de un espacio de alternativa

This article examines the Ethical Banking sector in Europe, looking for the main characteristics that define it. The analysis is based on how ethical banks address the question of the right to credit. In the light of this analysis, the basic elements that delineate the boundaries of ethical finances are presented, together with coincidences between some of these and the basic features of the Social Economy and the Solidarity Economy. The article ends with a brief reference to the Fiare Project, an ethical banking experience currently under development in Spain that builds on a wide network of social organizations, noting its characteristics with regard to the aforementioned frame of analysis. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]