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Grupo Financiero FicohsaHonduras

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A branch of Banco Ficohsa in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo: Charles via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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About
Website https://www.ficohsa.com/en/
Headquarters
Edificio Plaza Victoria, Colonia Las Colinas Blvd. Francia
3858 Tegucigalpa
Honduras
CEO/chair Camilo Atala
President of the Executive Board
Supervisor
Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros de Honduras (CNBS)
Ownership

The Grupo Financiero Ficohsa is owned by the Atala Faraj family.

Grupo Financiero Ficohsa was founded in 1995 and is based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It is a holding company that is engaged in providing mortgage, commercial and consumer lending, leasing, financial planning, insurance sales, investment banking and brokerage services through its subsidiaries. Its major subsidiary is Banco Ficohsa. The group has operations in Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua and the U.S.

The group has been linked to corruption by various organisations. For example, a 2017 report by Carnegie Endowment lists several corruption scandals in which Ficohsa is involved. According to Both ENDS, the bank has close ties with the country's elite, which is accused of mafia practices, corruption and violence, and Ficohsa itself is suspected of corruption.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

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

Links

Policies and procedures

In its 2021 CSR report (page 25) Ficohsa mentions it made its human rights policy official in 2020, but this policy is not publicly available.

2023-06-23 00:00:00

Social & Environmental Risk Policies

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2023-06-23 00:00:00 | Ficohsa
2023-06-23 00:00:00

CSR management model

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2023-06-23 00:00:00 | Ficohsa
Grupo Financiero Ficohsa has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
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The Cash Before The Killing

Newly Released Documents Reveal International Funding Trail Preceding the Murder of Berta Cáceres
2022-06-23 | The Intercept
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

FICOHSA Bank lobbies in the U.S. against the Berta Cáceres Law and lies again

Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras COPINH
2021-07-09 | COPINH
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Civil society welcomes FMO decision to not provide loan to Honduran bank FICOHSA

2021-05-20 | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Honduras elites blamed for violence against environmental activist

2017-01-31 | The Guardian
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BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New investigation finds ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy leads to IFC blunders in Honduras human rights scandal

2014-08-12 | Global Witness, Urgewald and others
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

A complaint is filed at the CAO ombudsman regarding IFC investments in Banco Ficohsa

2013-08-21 | Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Resources
Documents
Links
2023-06-23 00:00:00

Social & Environmental Risk Policies

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2023-06-23 00:00:00 | Ficohsa
2023-06-23 00:00:00

CSR management model

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2023-06-23 00:00:00 | Ficohsa
2023-06-13 00:00:00

CSR report 2022

Annual report
2023-06-13 00:00:00 | Grupo Financiero Ficohsa
2022-08-01 00:00:00

CSR report 2021

Annual report
2022-08-01 00:00:00 | Grupo Financiero Ficohsa
2021-05-20 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack, Oxfam Novib, BothENDS, SOMO and other NGOs to FMO on investments in FICOHSA

Correspondence
2021-05-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Oxfam Novib, BothENDS, SOMO and other NGOs
2020-07-07 00:00:00

Letter from NGOs to FMO on investment in FICOHSA bank

Correspondence
2020-07-07 00:00:00 | NGOs
2017-06-01 00:00:00

Annual report 2016

Annual report
2017-06-01 00:00:00 | Grupo Financiero Ficohsa
2017-05-31 00:00:00

When corruption is the operating system

The case of Honduras
Other document
2017-05-31 00:00:00 | Carnegie Endowment for International peace

References and reports of Ficohsa listed on business-humanrights.org

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Accountability
Grievances

Grupo Financiero Ficohsa does not operate a complaints or grievances channel for individuals or communities that might have been affected by its finance.

This page evaluates Grupo Financiero Ficohsa'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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