Banco Itau took over Unibanco at November 3, 2008 to form Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. The full integration of all operations and business shall be completed in two or three years. Itaú Unibanco will be the largest financial conglomerate in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the 20 largest in the world. Because the merge between the two banks is so recent, some of the policies have not been updated yet and it is not always clear whether the bank as a whole has signed certain policies. The bank has its headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil, and its activities/products include: asset management, investment banking, insurance, private equity, and retail banking.
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listed on BM&F Bovespa, NYSE Euronext
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Praça Alfredo Egydio de Souza Aranha, 100 - Torre Conceição - 11º
04344-902 São Paulo
Brazil
position top 1000 the Banker
In million US$. Ranking according to Tier 1 capital, as per definition Bank of International Settlements (BIS)
The CDP impels organisations to record their carbon footprint in daily activities. Encouraging enterprises to calculate and disclose their carbon impact, this initiative highlights the challenge for financial institutions to determine exactly how much carbon output can be attributed to financing.
Voluntary framework to guide the finance sector in tackling the challenge of climate change. They address the management of operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and provide direction on managing climate change in research activities; asset management; retail banking; insurance & re-insurance; corporate banking; investment banking & markets; project finance.
The EPs are a set of guidelines, based upon the Performance Standards and guidelines from the IFC, the World Bank's private sector lending arm for private banks to asesses and mitigate risks in project finance. Banks use the Principles to guide internal operating procedures for transaction for specific projects. Although the EPs are an important step to raise overall standards of financiers and projects in the developing world, they currently fall short on transparency and governance requirements.
The verification and full publication of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas and mining is supported by the EITI. Financial institutions can participate and encourage resource-rich countries to support the initiative that aims to defeat poverty, corruption and conflict caused by weak transparency and accountability.
As the name suggests, the GRI aims to standardise good practice in transparency. GRI provides companies with guidelines to organise their annual report with reporting indices and standards addressing environmental, social and economic issues that business ought to address when telling the world about its performance.
The UN Global Compact is a set of ten principles that companies may sign voluntarily. Signatories promise to avoid complicity in human rights violations, adhere to labour standards, protect the environment and avoid corruption. The G8 countries urge companies to participate in this initiative, and with over 2900 companies signing up, the Global Compact has momentum. A voluntary and network based framework, the Global Compact actively promotes peer review and stakeholder participation.
UNEP is the 'voice of the environment' for the United Nations system, promoting international cooperation in the field of the environment. Issues concerning the financial community are addressed by the UNEP Finance Initiative which promotes investment in clean and renewable energy by financial institutions and other investors. Financial insititutions wishing to join must sign one of two Statements (for financial institutions and a separate one for the insurance industry).
UNPRI is a set of six principles direct institutional investors may adopt to consider environmental, social and corporate governance issues when investing. Voluntary and aspirational in nature, UNPRI has since its inception in 2006 attracted 200 signatories, representing US$8 trillion worth of investments.
Since the turn of the century a group of twelve banks known as the Wolfsberg Group have collaborated to improve ethical standards. The principles provide guidance on money laundering, corruption and the financing of terrorism. They have been produced to address deficiencies in areas 'yet to be fully articulated by lawmakers or regulators'.
General Banktrack reaction on policies Itaú-Unibanco
Itaú Unibanco has
developed a general Sustainability Policy,
with a reference to the development and refinement of internal policies and
mechanisms for managing indirect impacts of financial transactions. As detailed
criteria for lending and investment banking and asset management remain unclear
and other policies are not disclosed no points are accredited to this policy.
The Sustainability Report 2008 mentions
existence of a Social-Environmental Risk
Policy, but this is not publicly disclosed and cannot be assessed for this
benchmark.
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headquarters
Praça Alfredo Egydio de Souza Aranha, 100 - Torre Conceição - 11º
04344-902 São Paulo
Brazil
position top 1000 the Banker
In million US$. Ranking according to Tier 1 capital, as per definition Bank of International Settlements (BIS)
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Jan 14, 2010 | BankTrack
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