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Website https://sbi.co.in/
Headquarters
Central Office, 8th Fl., Madame Cama Road 400 021
Mumbai
India
CEO/chair Dinesh Kumar Khara
Managing Director
Supervisor
Ownership
listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange & National Stock Exchange of India

State Bank of India is majority-owned (56.9%) by the Indian State.

Subsidiaries
Axis Bank UK Ltd. – United Kingdom
Axis Capital Ltd. – India

The State Bank of India is the largest bank of India. The bank was founded in 1806 as the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest commercial bank on the Indian Subcontinent. The Government of India nationalised the Imperial Bank of India in 1955, with the Reserve Bank of India taking a 60% stake, and renamed it the State Bank of India. In 2008, the Government took over the stake held by the Reserve Bank of India.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

State Bank of India's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

Links

CSR and sustainability

2023-06-30 00:00:00

Policy on corporate social responsibility

Bank policy
2023-06-30 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2023-01-09 00:00:00

ESG Financing Framework

January 2023
Bank policy
2023-01-09 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2022-10-12 00:00:00

Climate Change Risk Management Policy

Bank policy
2022-10-12 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2022-08-24 00:00:00

Sustainability and Business Responsibility Policy

Bank policy
2022-08-24 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2019-01-24 00:00:00

Code of conduct

Bank policy
2019-01-24 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
State Bank of India has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Dodgy Deals

State Bank Of India 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 State Bank Of India's link to these deals.

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Still banking on false solutions

BankTrack’s False Solutions Tracker shows that most of the 30 banks assessed count finance for harmful technologies towards their sustainable finance targets.
2025-05-20 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

International CSOs call on banks to rule out finance for controversial Indian steel and coal project

Of 22 financiers of JSW Steel, none committed not to finance the much-opposed Utkal Steel project in Odisha
2025-03-13 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Most large banks still failing to implement UN human rights principles, new BankTrack benchmark finds

Despite gradual progress, banks show little action in addressing impacts, protecting vulnerable groups and supporting affected communities.
2024-11-27 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Major ‘coal banks’ refuse to stop financing coal power boom in Asia

To stop a wave of new coal development across Asia, the End Coal Finance coalition is asking likely financiers to pledge not to back new coal power projects.
2024-11-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Inclusive Development International, Recourse
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Energy supply financing ratios: the next milestone in banks’ climate strategy

The energy supply financing ratio is a key indicator that synthesizes two major challenges in limiting global warming to 1.5°C: the phase-out of fossil fuels and the development of sustainable alternatives.
2024-10-07 | Reclaim Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BankTrack set to publish 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark in November

50 of the world’s largest banks were invited to provide feedback on draft assessments of their human rights disclosures
2024-07-23 | Nijmegen, Netherlands | Giulia Barbos – BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks financed fossil fuels by $6.9 trillion dollars since the Paris Agreement; $705 billion provided in 2023 alone; JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho, and Bank of America are worst 3 funders

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report with an updated methodology offers comprehensive look at who’s bankrolling the climate crisis
2024-05-13 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks have not quit coal, 8 years after the Paris Agreement

Banks in China dominate global coal financing; those in Indonesia are outliers in having increased finance for coal since 2016
2024-05-03 | Nijmegen | Will O'Sullivan – BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The banks financing dirty steel

The world’s major banks continue to support the largest and most polluting steel producers
2024-03-26 | Paris, France | Reclaim Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Perils of banking on fossil fuels

State Bank of India, Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda are the three banks from India that are open to doing business in coal.
BankTrack mentioned
2024-02-03 | The New Indian Express
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Three years after attempted coup, international banks still ignore the junta’s violent capture of the Myanmar-China pipelines

2024-02-01 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Coal Havens - Asia’s biggest banks still open for coal business after COP28

The largest banks in India and Indonesia – global hotspots of the coal industry's growth – have no coal exclusion policy
2024-01-23 | Will O'Sullivan – BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

67 organisations call on banks to cease financing metallurgical coal

Banks risk stranded assets & climate catastrophe in steel lending without metallurgical coal exclusions
2023-12-07 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Reclaim Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Decarbonization: steel not making the cut

Analysis by Reclaim Finance shows that few financial institutions have steel targets, and that those that have been adopted are riddled with flaws
2023-08-23 | Reclaim Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report: Canadian bank RBC the #1 financier of fossil fuels, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2023-04-13 | San Francisco | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Adani group firms pledge additional shares for key lender

2023-02-11 | Reuters
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New human rights assessment of banks shows slow progress and lack of action to address key gaps on reporting and remedy

BankTrack’s 2022 Global Human Rights Benchmark finds reporting at a standstill, remedy still lacking and no clear leaders
2022-11-17 | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Santos announces refinancing of syndicated debt facilities

Santos announced it had executed documentation to amend and extend its two syndicated bank loan facilities totalling US$1.25 billion.
2022-08-30 | Santos
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Mapping Garment Industry Funding in India

2022-04-06 | Fair Finance Asia, Fair Finance India
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report: Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2022-03-30 | San Francisco, Bemidji, Nijmegen, Oakland, Paris, Sassenberg, Washington DC | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Fossil Banks No Thanks demands banks commit to end fossil fuel finance before Glasgow Climate Summit

210+ groups support urgent call to action
2021-09-23 | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Top Indian bank drags its feet on billionaire Adani coal loan

Two senior State Bank of India executives, who asked not to be identified, said the bank was dragging its feet on extending part of a funding line of as much as $1 billion to Adani Enterprises Ltd., which plans to use the money for the controversial Carmichael mine.
2021-04-09 | Energy World
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Big banks lead SBI bond despite Adani controversy

2021-01-06 | Global Capital
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BlackRock, Storebrand pressure Indian bank over coal mining loan

2020-12-04 | Bloomberg
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

State Bank of India set to offer Rs 5000 cr loan to Carmichael coal project in Australia

2020-11-17 | New Delhi | Business Standard
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

4 out of 5 banks failing on human rights, new BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark shows

Lloyds, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale among the poorest performers in BankTrack ranking, alongside Canadian and Chinese banks
2019-11-26 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis

2019-09-19 | Environmental Paper Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

BankTrack 2019 Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The quiet death of the SBI-Adani loan agreement

2015-04-20 | LiveMint
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Activists Gun For Indian Billionaire's Great Barrier Reef Project

2014-12-02 | Forbes
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Trinamool slams SBI's $1-bn loan to Adani group

2014-11-27 | Hindustan Times
Resources
Documents
Links
2025-03-13 00:00:00

Which banks have ruled out finance for the JSW Utkal Steel and Coal Project?

BankTrack publication
2025-03-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2025-02-20 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to State Bank of India on JSW Utkal Steel

Correspondence
2025-02-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2024-05-27 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2024

Other bank document
2024-05-27 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2024-05-13 00:00:00

Banking on climate chaos 2024

Fossil fuel finance report 2024
BankTrack publication
2024-05-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance & Sierra Club
2024-05-02 00:00:00

Still Banking on Coal press release

Commercial Banks Still Deep into Coal 8 Years After Paris
Partner publication
2024-05-02 00:00:00 | Urgewald
2024-05-02 00:00:00

Commercial Banks Still Deep into Coal 8 Years After Paris

NGO document
2024-05-02 00:00:00 | Urgewald
2024-02-20 00:00:00

Annual report 2023

Annual report
2024-02-20 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2024-01-23 00:00:00

Coal Havens

The banks and loopholes keeping coal finance alive in Asia
BankTrack publication
2024-01-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2023-12-07 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to State Bank of India on Ending support for metallurgical coal

Correspondence
2023-12-07 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2023-06-30 00:00:00

Policy on corporate social responsibility

Bank policy
2023-06-30 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2023-04-21 00:00:00

Centre for Financial Accountability's (CFA, India) data portal

Partner publication
2023-04-21 00:00:00 | Centre for Financial Accountability
2023-04-13 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2023

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
BankTrack publication
2023-04-13 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
2023-04-03 00:00:00

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-04-03 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2023-01-27 00:00:00

Background briefing: Just 7% of global banks' energy financing goes to renewables, new data shows

BankTrack publication
2023-01-27 00:00:00 | Profundo for Sierra Club, Fair Finance International, BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
2023-01-09 00:00:00

ESG Financing Framework

January 2023
Bank policy
2023-01-09 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2022-11-17 00:00:00

BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

BankTrack publication
2022-11-17 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2022-11-15 00:00:00

Who is financing fossil fuel expansion in Africa?

BankTrack publication
2022-11-15 00:00:00 | Urgewald, BankTrack, 350.org Africa, Africa Coal Network & Oilwatch Africa, et al.
2022-10-12 00:00:00

Climate Change Risk Management Policy

Bank policy
2022-10-12 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2022-08-24 00:00:00

Sustainability and Business Responsibility Policy

Bank policy
2022-08-24 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2022-03-30 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2022

Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021
BankTrack publication
2022-03-30 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, urgewald
2022-03-01 00:00:00

Annual report 2020-2021

Annual report
2022-03-01 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2020-07-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2019-2020

Annual report
2020-07-31 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2020-04-30 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2019 - 2020

Annual report
2020-04-30 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2019-05-10 00:00:00

Annual report 2018-2019

Annual report
2019-05-10 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2019-04-01 00:00:00

Sustainability report 2018-2019

Annual report
2019-04-01 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2019-01-24 00:00:00

Code of conduct

Bank policy
2019-01-24 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2018-06-30 00:00:00

Sustainability report 2017-2018

Annual report
2018-06-30 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2015-04-02 00:00:00

Business Responsibility Report 2012-2013

Other bank document
2015-04-02 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2013-05-23 00:00:00

Annual results FY 2012-2013

Annual report
2013-05-23 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2012-05-25 00:00:00

Annual results FY 2011-2012

Annual report
2012-05-25 00:00:00 | State Bank of India
2011-05-25 00:00:00

Annual results FY 2010-2011

Annual report
2011-05-25 00:00:00 | State Bank of India

Fair Finance Guide India

Assesses how responsible Indian banks are with respect to the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria.

Take action: State Bank of India is considering throwing away $1b of Indian taxpayers’ money on Adani’s Australian coal project

State Bank of India CSR page

Accountability
Grievances
Response tracking

State Bank of India does not operate a complaints or grievances mechanism for individuals and communities that may be adversely affected by the bank's finance.

This page evaluates State Bank of India'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".

Impacts reviewed
Responded?
Total score
Response
Action
Monitoring
JSW Utkal steel and coal, India (February 2025)
0
0
0
n/a
Dodgy Deal profile
Response
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
The bank did not respond.
Action
0
Out of 1
Rationale for score
No information is available on whether the bank engaged with its client or took appropriate action.
Monitoring
n/a
Rationale for score
The impact was not raised over a year ago and therefore is not scored on monitoring progress.
More info
International CSOs call on banks to rule out finance for controversial Indian steel and coal project, March 2025

Average
0%
0
0
0
0
Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

The 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that State Bank of India provided US$ 33.688 Billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2016 and 2023. In 2023 only, State Bank of India provided US$ 1.591 Billion for oil, gas and coal companies expanding fossil fuels. Find further details on State Bank of India fossil fuel portfolio and how it compares to other large banks globally on Fossil Banks No Thanks and in the Banking on Climate Chaos report.

Fossil fuel finance data State Bank of India

Banking on Climate Chaos fossil fuel finance data

Partner organisation Reclaim Finance tracks the coal, oil and gas policies of financial institutions, including banks, in their Coal Policy Tool (CPT) and the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker (OGPT). BankTrack works closely with Reclaim Finance and endorses their policy assessments. Find further details on their assessment of State Bank of India's fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of State Bank of India coal policy in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of State Bank of India oil and gas policy in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker

False Solutions Tracker expansion

BankLast update
Country
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Energy
Energy grids and storage
Hydropower
Hydrogen
Solid Biomass
Biofuels
CCUS
Nuclear Power
Details
State Bank of India
2025-05-19
IND
0
1100000000000
India
Profile
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Energy
Energy grids and storage
Hydropower
Hydrogen
Solid Biomass
Biofuels
CCUS
Nuclear Power
20250519
Last update: 2025-05-19
Explanation

State Bank of India has not set a sustainable finance target. However, it reports that it raised USD 250 million through green bonds in FY24, in accordance with its ESG Financing Framework.

Relevant policies
2023-01-09 00:00:00

ESG Financing Framework

January 2023
Bank policy
2023-01-09 00:00:00
References
2024-5-27

Sustainability Report 2024

2024-5-27
Explanation

The purpose of the False Solutions Tracker is to give a clear overview of energy technologies that fall under banks' individual sustainable finance commitments. The tracker lists 11 energy technologies that are usually associated with the energy transition and the decarbonisation of the economy. These technologies are defined here and classified in three categories:

  1. Real solutions: Technologies that deliver on a Just Transition towards Energy Democracy. BankTrack considers these technologies as real solutions only if and when they do deliver Energy Democracy.

  2. Solutions under strict conditions: Energy technologies that could be real solutions if they deliver on a Just Transition towards Energy Democracy but that could also be false solutions. This is the case of hydrogen and hydropower. On one hand, fossil-free and green hydrogen could be a real solution under certain conditions. However, fossil-based hydrogen and nuclear hydrogen are always false solutions. On the other hand, hydropower lifespan extension could also be a real solution under strict conditions while hydropower expansion is a false solution.

  3. False solutions: Energy technologies that are not aligned with a just transition towards Energy Democracy.

For each one of the 11 energy technologies, the tracker indicates if it is included in bank's individual sustainable finance commitments:

 

For Real solutions:

  • ​​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting, but under certain conditions. In this case, those conditions are mentioned in the "relevant policy document" section for each bank.
  • ​: No, the bank does not include its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​ : It is unclear whether the bank includes or not its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.

 

For solutions under strict conditions and for false solutions:

  • ​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​: Yes, the bank includes its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting, but under certain conditions. In this case, those conditions are mentioned in the "relevant policy document" section for each bank.
  • ​: No, the bank does not include its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
  • ​: It is unclear whether the bank includes or not its finance towards this energy technology in its sustainable finance reporting.
For more details see this page.
Banks and Human Rights

Banks and Human Rights

BankTrack assessed State Bank of India in its 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark, where it achieved 1 point out of 15 and was ranked as a “laggard”. 

The bank scored 0 out of 3 points on the new “specific rights indicators”, which assess how banks address human rights defenders, Indigenous Peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent and environmental rights in their policies and practices.

In addition, State Bank of India scored 0 out of 3 on how it responds to alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, which were raised by civil society organisations. More information is detailed in the “Accountability” section of this profile.

The BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark

The table below shows BankTrack's assessment of how State Bank of India has implemented the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Please click on 'expand all details' and 'explanation' for further information on the methodology.

Our policy assessments are always a work in progress. We very much welcome any feedback, especially from banks included in the assessments. Please get in touch at humanrights@banktrack.org.

Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
State Bank of India
IND
1
Laggard 1
0
India
Score
Laggard
1
Explanation

State Bank of India's human rights policies, processes and reporting were assessed as part of the BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022. The bank is assessed as a Laggard, with a total score of 1 out of 14.

Policy: 0/3
Due dilligence: 0/5
Reporting: 1/3
Remedy: 0/3


Response Tracking:
The bank was also assessed on its responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations, for which it received an average score of n/a/3. See the Response Tracking section of this profile for more details.

Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 3 points
3.5 - 6.5 points
7 - 10 points
10.5 - 14 points
For more details see this page.

Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
State Bank of India
IND
1
Laggard 1
0
India
Score
Laggard
1
Explanation

State Bank of India's human rights policies, processes and reporting were assessed as part of the BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024. The bank is assessed as a , with a total score of 1 out of 15.

Policy: 0/3
Due dilligence: 0/5
Reporting: 1/4
Remedy: 0/3

Specific rights: 0/3

Response Tracking:
The bank was also assessed on its responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations, for which it received an average score of 0/3. See the Response Tracking section of this profile for more details.

Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Moderate achiever
Leader
0 - 3 points
3.5 - 7 points
7.5 - 10.5 points
11 - 15 points
For more details see this page.
Banks and Nature

Banks and Nature

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
State Bank of India
2022-09-27
IND
0.2
Laggard 0.2
0
India
Profile
Score
Laggard
0.2
20220927
Last update: 2022-09-27
Explanation

The policy assessment covers the main forest-risk commodity sectors (Beef, Palm Oil, Soy, Timber, Pulp and Paper, and Rubber). Weighted scores are based on the scope of State Bank of India' relevant policies, taking into account different types of financing and the sectors in which the bank is active. Details about the scores per sector policy can be found on State Bank of India' profile

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
State Bank of India
2022-09-29
IND
0
Laggard 0
0
India
Profile
Score
Laggard
0
20220929
Last update: 2022-09-29
Explanation

The policy assessment covers the bank's policies related to beef. Weighted scores are based on the scope of relevant policies, taking into account what types and how much finance the bank provides to companies active in the beef industry. Details of the criteria used to assess the policies and scores for other forest-risk commodity sectors can be found on State Bank of India' profile

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
State Bank of India
2022-09-29
IND
0.2
Laggard 0.2
0
India
Profile
Score
Laggard
0.2
20220929
Last update: 2022-09-29
Explanation

The policy assessment covers the bank's policies related to palm oil. Weighted scores are based on the scope of ABN AMRO's relevant policies, taking into account what types and how much finance the bank provides to companies active in the palm oil industry. Details of the criteria used to assess the policies and scores for other forest-risk commodity sectors can be found on State Bank of India' profile

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.
Banks and Russia

Banks and Russian Aggression in Ukraine

BankTrack is keeping track of the public response of the State Bank of India to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. State Bank of India did not publicly condemn the war. State Bank of India is considered by Leave-Russia.org to be "continue operations" with its operations in Russia. We consider its exposure to Russia as limited, with over $10m of financial assets. For further details, see the table linked below.

Bank responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Banks and Steel

Banks and Steel

Partner organisation Reclaim Finance’s 2023 report on metallurgical coal financing showed that State Bank of India provided US$ 3.3 billion in loans and underwriting to developers of new metallurgical coal between 2016 and 2022. Find further details on State Bank of India’s metallurgical coal financing and and how it compares to other large banks globally in the report.

Reclaim Finance tracks the metallurgical coal policies of financial institutions, including banks, in their Coal Policy Tool. BankTrack works closely with Reclaim Finance and endorses their policy assessments. Find further details on their assessment of State Bank of India’s metallurgical coal policy below.

According to a report by Reclaim Finance, between 2016 and June 2023, State Bank of India provided $3.9 billion in finance to the fossil-steel industry, making it the 37th largest financier worldwide. Find further details on State Bank of India's steel financing and how it compares to other large banks globally in the report. 

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