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Website http://www.handelsbanken.com
Headquarters
Kungsträdgårdsgatan 2
SE-106 70 Stockholm
Sweden
CEO/chair Michael Green
CEO
Supervisor
Riksbank
Ownership
listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange

Svenska Handelsbanken's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Svenska Handelsbanken AB (Handelsbanken) was founded in 1871 in Stockholm. The bank services both private and corporate customers, mainly operating in Sweden, United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

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

Links

Sustainability

Policy documents and guidelines

2025-02-25 00:00:00

Sector Framework - Fossil Energy

Bank policy
2025-02-25 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Environment and climate change guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Human rights and working conditions guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Armaments and defence industry guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Tobacco industry guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-03-20 00:00:00

Policy for sustainability

Bank policy
2024-03-20 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2023-06-02 00:00:00

Forestry and farming guidelines

Bank policy
2023-06-02 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2022-06-13 00:00:00

Exclusion of fossil fuel financing

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2022-06-13 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2022-06-13 00:00:00

Environment and climate change policy

Bank policy
2022-06-13 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2022-05-25 00:00:00

Climate change/fossil fuel policy in SWEDISH

Bank policy
2022-05-25 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2021-06-30 00:00:00

Handelsbanken’s climate change progress report 2021

Bank policy
2021-06-30 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2021-05-11 00:00:00

Managing taxes guidelines

Bank policy
2021-05-11 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2020-12-01 00:00:00

Sectors exclusion list

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2020-12-01 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken Asset Management
2020-03-10 00:00:00

Policy for shareholder engagement and responsible investments

Bank policy
2020-03-10 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken Fonder
2019-04-30 00:00:00

Responsible investment excluded companies

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-04-30 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-03-27 00:00:00

Policy for ethical standards

Bank policy
2019-03-27 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-03-27 00:00:00

Policy on measures against financial crime

Bank policy
2019-03-27 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2018-09-13 00:00:00

Policy for responsible investments

Bank policy
2018-09-13 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2017-03-29 00:00:00

Policy against corruption

Bank policy
2017-03-29 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2016-06-08 00:00:00

Guidelines regarding business relations with companies with operations within fossil fuels

Bank policy
2016-06-08 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
Svenska Handelsbanken has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | energy | energy plants
OECD Guidelines for Multinational EnterprisesTags: consumer safety | corporate social responsibility | corruption | cultural preservation | dams | human rights | mining and processing | OECD | supply chain | taxation | worker rights
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance | sustainable development | United Nations | Voluntary Standards
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)Tags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development | United Nations
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
Dodgy Deals

Svenska Handelsbanken 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 Svenska Handelsbanken's link to these deals.

Projects / Companies
Finance type
Year
News
BankTrack
Partners
Blog
External
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

‘Net Zero banks’ turn their back on crucial 1.5ºC climate target

“Overwhelming majority” of Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) members seeks to loosen obligations on how to reach Paris climate goals.
2025-04-15 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Swedbank stops fossil loans after protests

The new report Banking on Thin Ice 3 shows that SEB, Nordea, and Danske Bank have provided over 60 billion SEK in new loans to fossil fuel companies in the last two years
2025-01-27 | BankTrack, ActionAid Denmark, Coal-free Finland, Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Future is in our hands, Nordic Center for Sustainable Finance, Profundo, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The 2024 Global Coal Exit List: Too much coal and too little exit

2024-10-30 | Berlin | urgewald
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Financieren banken zichzelf de ondergang in? De ECB hint daar wel op

Er vloeien nog altijd miljarden euro’s naar fossiele projecten. Onderzoek wijst uit dat negen van de tien Europese banken een beleid hanteren dat niet in lijn is met het klimaatakkoord van Parijs. Daarmee zetten ze hun eigen voortbestaan op het spel. “Het feit dat er banken bestaan die fossiele projecten uitsluiten en alsnog renderen, laat zien dat het mogelijk is om geld te verdienen als duurzame bank”, meent de organisatie BankTrack
BankTrack mentioned
2024-02-20 | ChangeInc.
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Nordic banks real climate footprint revealed

2024-01-25 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Sustainability policies of the biggest banks active in Norway are assessed

2023-01-19 | Profundo
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Financing fossil fuel majors in line with net-zero strategy, say Nordic banks

BankTrack mentioned
2022-12-12 | S&P Global
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

European financial institutions heavily invested in companies involved in illegal Israeli settlements

725 European Financial Institutions found to provide billions of dollars in finance to companies operating in Israel's illegal settlement enterprise
2022-12-05 | Brussels | Don't Buy Into Occupation
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Nordic banks increase finance for Arctic oil and gas, new report finds

Ten Nordic banks provided US$ 21.2 billion to the fossil fuel industry. DNB, SEB, Nordea and Danske Bank largest Nordic financiers.
2022-11-22 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack, Greenpeace, ActionAid Denmark, Fair Finance Guide Norway, Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Friends of the Earth Finland, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

NGOs release the 2022 Global Oil & Gas Exit List

Oil and gas industry willing to sacrifice a livable planet
2022-11-10 | Berlin / Sharm el-Sheikh | urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report exposes billions in European financial support to companies in illegal Israeli settlements

2021-09-29 | Don't Buy Into Occupation
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Swedish banks contribute to Amazon deforestation

2021-09-21 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New bank climate initiative fails to grasp urgent need to end finance for fossil fuels

Civil society statement on the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance
2021-04-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, urgewald, Amazon Watch, Bank on our Future, Indigenous Environmental Network, Market Forces, Positive Money, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction, Sierra Club
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Leading finance firms sign up to Mark Carney forum on low-carbon investment

2021-04-21 | The Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

DNB, SEB and Nordea among biggest Scandinavian fossil fuel lenders

BankTrack mentioned
2021-02-02 | Environmental Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Scandinavian banks poured $67 billion into the fossil fuel industry since Paris

New report finds ongoing finance for coal, oil and gas companies, with little commitments to phase-out from fossil fuels
2021-02-01 | Nijmegen, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm | BankTrack, ActionAid Denmark, Fair Finance Guide Norway, Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Oxfam IBIS
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New BankTrack Equator Principles reporting tracking tool launched

2020-09-21 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Swedish banks linked to the war in Yemen

The seven largest banks in Sweden continue to finance and invest billions in companies involved in controversial arms exports, for example to countries participating in the Yemen conflict. This is shown in a follow-up report by Diakonia and the Fair Finance Guide.
2020-02-06 | Diakonia, Fair Finance Guide Sweden
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Handelsbanken decided to stop investing in arms companies through their investment funds

Handelsbanken decided to phase out all investments in arms from its actively and passively managed investment funds as well as multi-asset funds.
2020-02-06 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Handelsbanken signs up to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking

2019-09-23 | Stockholm | Svenska Handelsbanken
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Imagine a World with No Bank Bonuses

2018-02-26 | Bloomberg
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report linking Nordic banks and government pension funds to Indonesia’s palm oil deforestation

Nordic investments to Asian banks support rapacious palm oil producers with financing that impedes push for sustainability
2017-05-30 | Oslo, Norway | Fair Finance Guide Norway, Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Rainforest Foundation Norway
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks and pension funds fail to act on allegations against Lundin Petroleum

2017-04-27 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Swedwatch
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Scandinavian banks linked to violations of indigenous peoples’ rights in Borneo

2017-03-07 | Stockholm, Sweden | Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Swedwatch
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Swedish banks invest in controversial arms trade

2016-09-14 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden
Resources
Documents
Links
2025-02-25 00:00:00

Sector Framework - Fossil Energy

Bank policy
2025-02-25 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken
2024-10-01 00:00:00

NZBA 2024 Progress Report

Other document
2024-10-01 00:00:00 | NZBA
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Environment and climate change guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Human rights and working conditions guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Armaments and defence industry guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-04-22 00:00:00

Tobacco industry guidelines

Bank policy
2024-04-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-03-20 00:00:00

Policy for sustainability

Bank policy
2024-03-20 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-02-22 00:00:00

Climate Change progress report 2023

Other bank document
2024-02-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-02-22 00:00:00

Annual and Sustainability Report 2023

Annual report
2024-02-22 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2024-01-25 00:00:00

The real carbon footprint of Swedish banks

An assessment of the five largest banks’ financed emissions and Paris-aligned transition plans
Partner publication
2024-01-25 00:00:00 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
2023-06-02 00:00:00

Forestry and farming guidelines

Bank policy
2023-06-02 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2023-03-21 00:00:00

Annual and Sustainability Report 2022

Annual report
2023-03-21 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2023-02-23 00:00:00

Climate Change Progress Report

Other bank document
2023-02-23 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2022-11-22 00:00:00

Banking on Thin Ice: Two years in the heat

Exposing Nordic bank finance for fossil fuels
BankTrack publication
2022-11-22 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2022-07-05 00:00:00

Annual integrated report 2021

Annual report
2022-07-05 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken
2022-06-13 00:00:00

Exclusion of fossil fuel financing

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2022-06-13 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2022-06-13 00:00:00

Environment and climate change policy

Bank policy
2022-06-13 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2022-05-25 00:00:00

Climate change/fossil fuel policy in SWEDISH

Bank policy
2022-05-25 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2021-08-24 00:00:00

Investing in troubled waters

The material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector
NGO document
2021-08-24 00:00:00 | Feedback, Changing Markets Foundation, CFFA, and WSRW
2021-08-10 00:00:00

Annual integrated report 2020

Annual report
2021-08-10 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2021-06-30 00:00:00

Handelsbanken’s climate change progress report 2021

Bank policy
2021-06-30 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2021-05-11 00:00:00

Managing taxes guidelines

Bank policy
2021-05-11 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2021-04-21 00:00:00

Commitment statement Net Zero Banking Alliance

Other document
2021-04-21 00:00:00 | UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking
2021-02-01 00:00:00

Banking on Thin Ice

Exposing Scandinavian Bank Finance for Fossil Fuels
BankTrack publication
2021-02-01 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Fair Finance Guide Norway, Fair Finance Guide Sweden, Oxfam IBIS, ActionAid Denmark
2020-12-01 00:00:00

Sectors exclusion list

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2020-12-01 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken Asset Management
2020-07-01 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-07-01 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2020-07-01 00:00:00

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-07-01 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2020-03-10 00:00:00

Policy for shareholder engagement and responsible investments

Bank policy
2020-03-10 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken Fonder
2019-05-21 00:00:00

Fool's Gold

The financial institutions bankrolling Europe’s most coal-dependent utilities
NGO document
2019-05-21 00:00:00 | Europe Beyond Coal
2019-04-30 00:00:00

Responsible investment excluded companies

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-04-30 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-04-16 00:00:00

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-04-16 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-04-16 00:00:00

CSR report 2018

Annual report
2019-04-16 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-03-27 00:00:00

Policy for ethical standards

Bank policy
2019-03-27 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-03-27 00:00:00

Policy for management of conflicts of interest in the Handelsbanken Group

Other bank document
2019-03-27 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2019-03-27 00:00:00

Policy on measures against financial crime

Bank policy
2019-03-27 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2018-11-07 00:00:00

Still Undermining Our Future?!

A case study for Fair Finance Guide International of Swedish financial institutions
NGO document
2018-11-07 00:00:00 | Profundo
2018-09-30 00:00:00

Still Irresponsible Investments

A study of Swedish banks' investments in companies linked to human rights abuses
NGO document
2018-09-30 00:00:00 | FFG Sweden, Amnesty International
2018-09-13 00:00:00

Policy for responsible investments

Bank policy
2018-09-13 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2018-05-28 00:00:00

Annual report 2017

Annual report
2018-05-28 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2018-05-28 00:00:00

Sustainability report 2017

Annual report
2018-05-28 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2017-05-30 00:00:00

Nordic investments in banks financing Indonesian palm oil

NGO document
2017-05-30 00:00:00 | Rainforest Foundation Norway, FFG Sweden and FFG Norway
2017-04-01 00:00:00

Annual Report 2016

Annual report
2017-04-01 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2017-03-29 00:00:00

Policy against corruption

Bank policy
2017-03-29 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2017-02-16 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2016

Annual report
2017-02-16 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken
2016-06-08 00:00:00

Guidelines regarding business relations with companies with operations within fossil fuels

Bank policy
2016-06-08 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2016-03-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2015

Annual report
2016-03-31 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2016-03-31 00:00:00

Sustainability report 2015

Annual report
2016-03-31 00:00:00 | Svenska Handelsbanken
2016-03-16 00:00:00

Policy for management of conflicts of interest in the Handelsbanken Group

Other bank document
2016-03-16 00:00:00 | Handelsbanken Group
2015-06-30 00:00:00

Irresponsible Investments

A study of Swedish banks' investments in companies linked to human rights abuses
NGO document
2015-06-30 00:00:00 | FFG Sweden, Amnesty International

Sustainability at Handelsbanken

Accountability
Grievances

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

Svenska Handelsbanken 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 Svenska Handelsbanken'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

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Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

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 Svenska Handelsbanken’s fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of Svenska Handelsbanken coal policy in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of Svenska Handelsbanken oil and gas policy in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker

Tracking the NZBA

Tracking the Net Zero Banking Alliance

Svenska Handelsbanken is a member of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and has therefore committed to reduce its financed emissions to net zero by 2050; within 18 months of joining the alliance set interim targets for 2030 (or sooner) for high emission priority sectors, and within 36 months set further sector targets; set new intermediary targets every 5 years from 2030 onwards; annually publish data on emissions and progress against a transition strategy including climate-related sectoral policies; and take a robust approach to the role of offsets in transition plans. BankTrack track's implementation of these commitments in the NZBA compliance tracker.

 

Tracking NZBA banks commitments

Good Moves

Good moves

Year:

2025

Swedbank stops fossil loans after protests

After protests from thousands of Swedish bank clients, Swedbank has almost completely stopped new loans to fossil fuel companies. Meanwhile, SEB, Danske Bank, and Nordea have continued to pour over 60 billion SEK into fossil fuel companies, including to upstream companies that explore for more fossil fuel reserves. This…

2020

Handelsbanken decided to stop investing in arms companies through their investment funds

A report published by Fair Finance Guide Sweden in February 2020 analysed Sweden's largest banks' policies concerning controversial arms trade. It found that Handelsbanken, in 2018, decided to phase out all investments in arms from its actively and passively managed investment funds as well as multi-asset…
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