Recent Announcements –

• “Climate First Bank launches residential solar loan platform”
• “Florida’s Climate First Bank launches online solar lending with no fees”
• “Climate First Bank: A Financial Institution Dedicated to Environmental Sustainability and Social Change”
• “How to Go Green(er) With Sustainable Banking”
• Climate First Bank’s Winter Park Branch Now Open

• “Climate First Bank Joins Net-Zero Banking Alliance”
• “Spotlight On: Ken LaRoe, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Climate First Bank”
• Climate First Bank Joins UN-Convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance
• Climate First Bank Names Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Climate First Bank Enhances Team with Green Banking Veterans
• Climate First Bank to open Second Branch in Orlando, Florida
• Climate First Bank to Finance Climate Adaptation for Condominiums
• Climate First Bank Announces Key Hires to Banking Team
• Climate First Bank Pledges 1% of All Profit to Environmental Causes
• Climate First Bank Welcomes Four New Millennial Additions to Marketing and Banking Teams
• Climate First Bank Unveils Specialized Solar Energy Loan Programs

Recent Articles and Podcasts – 

• “A Year after Launch, Bank Grows to More Than $200M in Assets”
• “Climate First Expands Digital Services with Fintech Startup”

• BAI Banking Strategies Podcast: “Balancing Climate Urgency and Business Reality”
• “Green Finance Briefing: ‘Business as usual’ is proving unsustainable for banks”
• “Ethical Banking: What Is a Socially Responsible Bank?”
• 10 Low-Cost and No-Cost Ways to Help the Planet in 2022”
• “Climate First Bank on sustainability, fintech greenwashing, and fighting the climate crisis”
• “The Green Finance outlook for 2022: Trends, concerns and new entrants”
• “‘Profit with a purpose’: Mission-driven banks find value in partnerships”
• “St. Petersburg’s Climate First Bank relocates headquarters”
• “Climate First Bank, new branch”
• “Climate First Bank to open eco-friendly branch in Orlando”
• “One bank’s response to climate change: Financing condo retrofits”
• “Green Finance: These Banks Make Sustainability Their Mission”
• “Climate-focused de novo’s loan program aims to retool Florida condos”
• “The Evolution of Regenerative Placemaking” IG Live with Ken LaRoe
• 5 Ways You Can Use Your Money Right Now to Help Save the Planet”
• “Are ‘Green Banks’ Really Better for the Environment?”
• “The private sector starts to invest in climate adaptation”
• “CEOs You Should Know: Ken LaRoe of Climate First Bank”
• “This St. Petersburg bank is taking on climate change, and it opened this week”
• “New eco-friendly bank in St. Pete puts ‘Climate First’”
• “‘We want to be in your face about it’: Ken LaRoe on his bank’s mission”
• “Climate First Bank plans to supercharge solar loan products”

• Ken LaRoe Answers Viewer Questions | Real Leaders PodcastYouTube · Real Leaders Magazine
• American Banker: This startup bank’s mission: Environmental justice
• i4Business: Banking on Values
• One Green Planet: New Climate Bank Coming in June
• New Yorker: There Are No Borders in a Climate Crisis