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Website http://hdfcbank.com
Headquarters
HDFC Bank House, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel
400013 Mumbai
India
CEO/chair Sashidhar Jagdishan
Managing Director and CEO
Supervisor
Reserve Bank of India
Ownership
listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, Luxembourg Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange of India & NYSE

HDFC Bank's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.

HDFC Bank is a large financial institution in India. It was incorporated in August 1994, after the Reserve Bank of India allowed establishing private sector banks. It is India’s largest housing finance company. The bank has three key business segments: wholesale banking, retail banking and treasury.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

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

Links

Codes and policies

Corporate social responsibility

HDFC Securities

CSR policy

Bank policy
2024-04-01 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Whistleblower Policy

Bank policy
2021-03-06 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2020-12-07 00:00:00 | HDFC Securities

Environmental, social and governance ESG policy framework

Bank policy
2020-04-17 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Environmental policy

Bank policy
2019-12-17 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Code of conduct and ethics

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-01-25 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank
HDFC Bank 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

HDFC Bank 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 HDFC Bank's link to these deals.

Projects / Companies
Finance type
Year
News
Resources
Documents
Links

CSR policy

Bank policy
2024-04-01 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual report 2022-2023

Annual report
2023-06-05 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual report 2021-2022

Annual report
2022-08-15 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual report 2020-2021

Annual report
2021-06-22 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

CSR report 2020-2021

Annual report
2021-06-16 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Whistleblower Policy

Bank policy
2021-03-06 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2020-12-07 00:00:00 | HDFC Securities

Annual report 2019-2020

Annual report
2020-07-01 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

CSR report 2019-2020

Annual report
2020-07-01 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Environmental, social and governance ESG policy framework

Bank policy
2020-04-17 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Sustainability report 2018-2019

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Annual report
2019-12-17 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Environmental policy

Bank policy
2019-12-17 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual report 2018-2019

Annual report
2019-06-24 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Code of conduct and ethics

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-01-25 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual report 2017-2018

Annual report
2018-06-30 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Sustainability report 2017-2018

Annual report
2018-06-30 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual Report 2013-14

Annual report
2015-04-14 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

Annual Business Responsibility Report 2013-14

Annual report
2015-04-14 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

HDFC 2012-2013 Annual Report

Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank

HDFC 2012-2013 Business Responsibility

Annual report
2014-01-01 00:00:00 | HDFC Bank
Accountability
Grievances

HDFC Bank operates a grievance redressal mechanism, which can be accessed here.

This page evaluates HDFC Bank'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 HDFC Bank in its 2022 Human Rights Benchmark Asia, where it achieved 1 point out of 14 and was ranked as a 'laggard'. More information is detailed in the "Accountability" section of this profile.

The BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark

Human Rights Benchmark Asia 2022

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
HDFC Bank
IND
1
Laggard 1
Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 3 points
3.5 - 6 points
6.5 - 9 points
9.5 - 14 points
For more details see this page.