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| Website | http://www.btgpactual.com |
| Headquarters |
Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3.477 14º Andar - Itaim Bibi
04538-133 São Paulo
Brazil
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| CEO/chair |
Roberto Sallouti CEO |
| Supervisor | |
| Ownership |
listed on Brazil Stock Exchange & NYSE
BTG Pactual's majority-shareholder is BTG Pactual Holding Financeira (80,2%). The bank's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here. |
BTG Pactual is a Brazilian financial company founded in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro. It started as a brokerage firm, but now operates in the markets of investment banking, wealth management and asset management. Its clients are companies, retail and institutional investors, as well as municipal, state and federal governments. BTG Pactual has offices in the main Latin American cities and in the world's leading financial centers.
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BTG Pactual's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.
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BTG Pactual has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Dodgy Deals
BTG Pactual is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of BTG Pactual's link to these deals.
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Grievances
BTG Pactual does not operate a complaints or grievance channel for individuals or communities who might have been affected by the bank's finance.
BTG Pactual 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 BTG Pactual'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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Banks and Nature
Banks and Nature
BTG Pactual’s policies for forest-risk sectors (beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber) have been assessed by the Forests & Finance coalition, achieving an overall score of 1.9 out of 10 and ranking it as a follower. BTG Pactual achieved a score of 1.8 out of 10 specifically for its policies related to the beef sector and 1.2 out of 10 for its policies related to the palm oil sector. In addition, BankTrack and the Environmental Paper Network have assessed BTG Pactual’s policies related to the pulp and paper sector.
Between 2016 and 2022, BTG Pactual provided USD 2,371 million in credit to companies operating in these forest-risk sectors and held investments amounting to USD 266 million as of 2022. For more information, see the links below.
Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores
BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
BTG Pactual
2022-09-21
BRA
1.9
Follower
1.9
0
Explanation
A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its policies. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.
Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Beef
BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
BTG Pactual
2022-09-21
BRA
1.8
Follower
1.8
0
Explanation
A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its beef policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.
Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Palm Oil
BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
BTG Pactual
2022-09-21
BRA
1.2
Follower
1.2
0
Explanation
A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its palm oil policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.
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