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Banco Galicia's head office in Buenos Aires. Photo: Frodar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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This profile is actively maintained
Last update: 2024-06-28 00:00:00
About
| Website | https://www.galicia.ar/personas |
| Headquarters |
Tte. Gral. Juan D. Perón 407
C1038AAI Buenos Aires
Argentina
|
| CEO/chair |
Fabian Kon CEO |
| Supervisor | |
| Ownership |
listed on Buenos Aires Stock Exchange
Banco Galicia is a subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Galicia of which its shareholder structure can be accessed here. |
Founded in 1905, Banco Galicia is one of the largest financial services provider in Argentina and the largest private sector commercial bank in Argentina ranked by deposits, assets or loans. The bank offers business and consumer loans, mortgages, investment banking, securities brokerage, foreign exchange services, mutual funds, insurance, annuities, and credit cards. Banco Galicia was one of the first Latin-American banks to have adopted the Equator Principles in 2007.
Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards
Grupo Galicia's (Banco Galicia's parent company) most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.
Links
The holding, Grupo Financiero Galicia, has no publicly available bank policies.
Banco Galicia has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Dodgy Deals
Banco Galicia 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 Banco Galicia's link to these deals.
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Accountability
Grievances
Banco Galicia does not operate a complaints or grievances mechanism for individuals or communities that night have been affected by the bank's finance.
Banco Galicia 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 Banco Galicia'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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Monitoring
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