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Last update: 2024-06-28 00:00:00
About
Website https://www.portal.brou.com.uy/
Headquarters
Calle Cerrito 351
11000 Montevideo
Uruguay
CEO/chair Salvador Ferrer
President
Supervisor
Banco Central del Uruguay
Ownership

Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay is state-owned by the Uruguayan Government.

State-owned Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay, etablished in 1896, is the largest banking institution in Uruguay and operates as a commercial and development bank. It offers personal banking products and services such as checking and savings accounts, credit cards, time deposits, consumer loans, and mortgages. It also provides a a rang of other financial products, including leasing, treasury services, funding for working capital, asset management and foreign trade services for customers in small business, corporate and agribusiness banking market segments. The bank has foreign branches established in Sao Paulo, New York, and Buenos Aires.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

Links

Environmental improvement

Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay does not have publicly availabe bank policies.

2010-08-12 00:00:00

Code of ethics

Document in Spanish
Bank policy
2010-08-12 00:00:00 | BROU
2009-06-30 00:00:00

Code of good practice

Document in Spanish
Bank policy
2009-06-30 00:00:00 | BROU
Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
News
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Blog
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New BankTrack Equator Principles reporting tracking tool launched

2020-09-21 | BankTrack
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Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency

2012-08-13 | Environmental Finance
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While BankTrack criticizes Equator Principles, IFC celebrates Community of Learning

2011-10-25 | Washington | prizmablog.com
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Time to Improve the Equator Principles, BankTrack Says

BankTrack mentioned
2011-10-24 | Washington | Social Funds
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BankTrack to Equator Principles banks; ‘get the Outside Job done’

Equator Principles update must lead to new Principles focused on people and planet
2011-10-23 | Washington | BankTrack
Blog
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Financiers search for sustainable future

BankTrack mentioned
2011-10-20 | Washington | Environmental Finance
Blog
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Equator Principles: Action, not words needed

BankTrack calls upon Citi, new chair of Equator Principles to take bold steps forward
2010-03-15 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands | BankTrack
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Civil society groups call for bold steps forward with Equator Principles

Major reforms needed on transparency, accountability, implementation and climate change
2010-01-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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The Banco República adheres to the Equator Principles

2008-01-03 | Montevideo | Equator Principles
Resources
Documents
2024-07-04 00:00:00

Annual report 2023

Annual report
2024-07-04 00:00:00 | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay
2023-06-06 00:00:00

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-06-06 00:00:00 | Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
2022-05-03 00:00:00

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-05-03 00:00:00 | Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
2021-09-24 00:00:00

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-09-24 00:00:00 | Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
2020-09-29 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-09-29 00:00:00 | Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
2019-07-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-07-31 00:00:00 | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay
2018-03-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2017

Document in Spanish
Annual report
2018-03-31 00:00:00 | BROU
2017-07-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2016

Document in Spanish
Annual report
2017-07-31 00:00:00 | BROU
2015-03-19 00:00:00

Annual Corporate Report 2014

Annual report
2015-03-19 00:00:00 | BROU
2010-12-18 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to EPFIs on issues around Equator Principles Review process

Correspondence
2010-12-18 00:00:00 | Banktrack
2010-08-12 00:00:00

Code of ethics

Document in Spanish
Bank policy
2010-08-12 00:00:00 | BROU
2010-01-01 00:00:00

A sustainable bank for a sustainable economy

Other bank document
2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
2009-06-30 00:00:00

Code of good practice

Document in Spanish
Bank policy
2009-06-30 00:00:00 | BROU
2008-12-11 00:00:00

Adoption letter Global Compact

Other bank document
2008-12-11 00:00:00 | Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay
Accountability
Grievances

Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay does not operate a complaints or grievances channel for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay is an Equator Principles signatory. While the Equator Principles have no official grievance mechanism, complaints relating to this bank's financing of Equator Principles projects can be filed through our own website www.equator-complaints.org.

This page evaluates Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

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Monitoring

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