BTG Pactual

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
2 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
0 out of 5
Commodity 
2 out of 5
Scope 
1 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
3 out of 5

Assessment year: 2016

Total score 
2 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
3 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
3 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Asset manager, Bank
HQ 
Brazil

Collective commitments

Banking Environment Initiative member
No
New York Declaration on Forests signatory
No

150 Financial institutions

Investors and lenders need to adopt and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria that ensure their investments are not funding deforestation. For analysis of how the financial sector is performing click here.

This assessment has been carried out following the assessment methodology developed for the Forest 500 project.

Profile 

BTG Pactual are an investment bank and asset manager headquartered in Brazil. Their services include investment banking, corporate finance, asset and wealth management, and trading services. As of 2017, BTG Pactual’s total assets under management amount to more than 125 billion BRL. BTG Pactual are a top financier in Brazil, an important forest jurisdiction in terms of tropical forest cover and agricultural commodity production and trading.

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Score
4 out of 5

HSBC Holdings Ltd.

Score
4 out of 5

Westpac

Score
4 out of 5

Standard Chartered

Score
4 out of 5

Deutsche Bank

Score
4 out of 5

ING Groep N.V.

Score
4 out of 5

Disclaimer

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