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Last update: 2024-02-05 00:00:00
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About
Website https://www.bna.com.ar/Institucional
Headquarters
Bartolomé Mitre 326
C1036AAF Buenos Aires
Argentina
CEO/chair Gabriel Gonzalez
Managing Director
Supervisor
Banco Central de la Republica Argentina
Ownership

Banco de la Nacion Argentina is part of the Banco Nacion Group and as such owned by the State of Argentina.

Banco de la Nacion Argentina (BCA) was founded in 1891 and is Argentina's largest commercial bank. Initially it financed agricultural smallholders, and later commercial and industrial businesses, as well as handling an array of public sector transactions. BCA is owned by the National State of Argentina, its main objective is to serve as financial agent for the National Government.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

Banco de la Nacion Argentina's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

Links

Social responsibility

Corporate governance code

(includes a section on human rights on page 42)
Bank policy
2023-06-26 00:00:00 | BNA
Banco de la Nación Argentina has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance | sustainable development | United Nations | Voluntary Standards
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
News
Resources
Documents
Accountability
Grievances

Banco de la Nacion Argentina does not operate a complaints or grievances channel for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

This page evaluates Banco de la Nación Argentina'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 Human Rights

Banks and Human Rights

BankTrack assessed Banco de la Nación Argentina in its 2024 Human Rights Benchmark Latin America, part of the series of  BankTrack's Regional Benchmarks, where it achieved 0 points out of 14 and was ranked as a laggard.

The BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark Latin America

Human Rights Benchmark Latin America 2024

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Banco de la Nación Argentina
ARG
0
Laggard 0
Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Moderate achiever
Leader
0 - 3 points
3.5 - 6.5 points
7 - 10 points
10.5 - 14 points
For more details see this page.