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About
Website https://www.banrisul.com.br/
Headquarters
Rua Caldas Júnior, 108
Porto Alegre
Brazil
CEO/chair Fernando Guerreiro de Lemos
CEO
Supervisor
Banco Central do Brasil
Ownership
listed on Brazil Stock Exchange

Banrisul's major shareholder is the State of Rio Grande do Sul (49.39%). Banrisul's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Banrisul, founded in 1928, is the largest bank in Southern Brazil, primarily operating in Rio Grande do Sul. The bank has expanded internationally with locations in the United States and Grand Cayman. Banrisul offers both business and consumer banking services. 

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

Banrisul's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

Links

Sustainability

Bylaws, Policies and Documents

Sustainable Portfolio and exclusion criteria

date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2025-08-26 00:00:00 | Banrisul

Nosso Compromisso com o Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Bank policy
2025-07-31 00:00:00 | Banrisul

Social, environmental and climate responsibility policy

Bank policy
2025-07-09 00:00:00 | Banrisul

Code of ethics and conduct

Bank policy
2025-03-24 00:00:00 | Banrisul

Relatorio de riscos e oportudinades socias, ambientas e climaticas

Bank policy
2024-03-31 00:00:00 | Banrisul

Politica de responsabilidade socioambiental - PRSA

Bank policy
2020-12-03 00:00:00 | Banrisul
Banrisul has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Sustainability Accounting Standards BoardTags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
News
Resources
Documents
Accountability
Grievances

Banrisul does not operate a complaints or grievance mechanism for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

This page evaluates Banrisul'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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Total score
Response
Action
Monitoring

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