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HISTORICAL FACTS: Banco do brasil - Caught on Camera

From Belém to the world: a financial approach to climate and inclusion

Now is the time to make bold commitments to protect our planet and care for people.

Fortune · Oct 17, 2025

Brazil Bank's Ties To Slavery Reopen Wounds, Reparations Debate

In 1853, Viscount Jose Bernardino de Sa, a Brazilian nobleman who made his fortune shipping enslaved Africans to the Americas, became the largest investor in the country's oldest bank, Banco do Brasil.

International Business Times · Nov 30, 2023

Brazil bank’s past slavery ties to be investigated in unprecedented inquiry

Banco do Brasil, one of country’s biggest banks, under scrutiny as institutions called to account for role in trafficking of Africans

The Guardian - US · Sep 29, 2023

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Banco do Brasil CEO: ‘Brazil is responsible for half of the Amazon rainforest. Here’s how we’re finding the money to save it’

'Banks must seek to harmonize financial returns for shareholders with social and environmental advancements to reduce inequality,' writes Tarciana Medeiros.

Fortune · Sep 20, 2023

World Bank to lend $500 million to help Brazil meet climate goals

The World Bank´s board of directors approved late on Thursday a $500 million project in Brazil to expand sustainability-linked finance and strengthen the private sector’s capacity to access carbon credit markets and help the country curb deforestation.

Reuters · Dec 23, 2022

With fresh firepower, brutal bank thieves blitz small-town Brazil

Shortly before dawn in late June 2019, a heavily armed crew of bank robbers rammed a truck into the Brazilian city of Uberaba's main Banco do Brasil branch. They left the building several hours later with around $5 million dollars in cash.

Reuters · Sep 21, 2022

Bolsonaro's gun laws arm Brazil's brazen bank thieves

In August last year, Brazilian farmer Reinaldo Huijsmans reported a break-in at his house in the town of Maracaju, where thieves stole six legally registered weapons, including a T4 Taurus assault rifle.

Reuters · Sep 21, 2022

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Analysis-Lula unlikely to repeat Brazil state bank lending binges

Over more than a decade in power, Brazilian leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his handpicked successor used state banks to bolster corporate "national champions" and major sectors their Workers Party saw as essential to the economy.

Reuters · Sep 15, 2022

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