Banco Bradesco

Banco Bradesco S.A. is one of the biggest banking and financial services companies in Brazil. Banco Bradesco was the largest private bank in Brazil until Banco Itaú and Unibanco merged in 2009. Banco Bradesco is headquartered in the city of Osasco, in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, at Companhia Cidade de Deus, and has 5,314 branches, 4,834 Service Branches and 38,430 “Bradesco Expresso” Units,[1] the correspondent bank through partnerships with supermarkets, drugstores, department stores and other retail chains. It is currently the third largest Brazilian bank by total assets. The bank is the world’s thirtysecond largest in market capitalization in 2014.[4]

Banco Bradesco S.A.
Sociedade Anônima
Traded asB3: BBDC3, BBDC4
NYSE: BBD
BMAD: XBBDC
Ibovespa Component
ISINUS0594603039
IndustryFinancial services
FoundedMarch 10, 1943 (1943-03-10) in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
FounderAmador Aguiar 
Headquarters
Osasco, São Paulo
,
Brazil
Number of locations
5,314 branches
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Octavio de Lazari, (Chairman and CEO)
Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Guilherme (Vice Chairman)
ProductsBanking
Investment banking
Private equity
Asset management
Private banking
Insurance
Retail Banking
Services
Revenue US$ 74.0 billion (2017)
US$5.5 billion (2018)
Total assets US$ 361.0 billion (2018)
Number of employees
108,794
SubsidiariesBradespar
Bradesco Seguros
RatingBa3 (Moody's)
BB+ (S&P)
Websitebanco.bradesco
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

Bradesco customers can also use 34,859[5] “Bradesco Dia&Noite” Automatic Teller Machines and 12,975 ATMs of the Banco24Horas, a Brazilian third-party ATM network.

The Bank is a pioneer in using the ATM biometric reading system “Segurança Bradesco na Palma da Mão” (Roughly translated as "Bradesco Security in the Palm of Your Hand") in Brazil, which enables customers to be identified using the vascular pattern of their hands, serving as a complementary password, available at 31,474 Banco Bradesco ATMs and 5,549 Banco24Horas ATMs.

Banco Bradesco offers Internet Banking, insurance, pension plans, annuities, credit card services (including football club affinity cards for soccer fans) for customers, and savings bonds. The bank also provides personal and commercial loans, as well as leasing services. Internationally, Banco Bradesco have one branch in New York and two in Grand Cayman, and banking or financial subsidiaries or affiliates in London, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Grand Cayman, Tokyo and Mexico.[1]

Banco Bradesco is constantly expanding and has recently acquired Banco do Estado do Maranhão, Banco Mercantil de São Paulo, Banco Ibi S.A., and the Brazilian operations of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management, American Express and HSBC Brasil.[6] Banco Bradesco grew its value by more than 50 percent compared with 2017[7]

Banco Bradesco's stock is traded on BM&F Bovespa, where it is part of the Índice Bovespa. It is also listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Madrid Stock Exchange.


Slogan
  • Pra frente. (Brazil); it means "Go forward.".[8]

History
  • March 10, 1943: Banco Brasileiro de Descontos S.A. founded by Amador Aguiar[9] in the city of Marília in the state of São Paulo. The bank targets small landowners, retailers, and government employees.
  • 1946: Banco Bradesco moves headquarters to São Paulo.
  • 1951: Banco Bradesco grows to become the largest private bank in Brazil.
  • 1953: Banco Bradesco moves headquarters to Cidade de Deus, Osasco, São Paulo.
  • 1956: Amador Aguiar creates Fundação Bradesco, the biggest education program in Brazil.
  • 1962: Banco Bradesco is the first Latin American company to buy a computer.
  • 1968: Banco Bradesco the first credit card in Brazil.
  • 1970s: Banco Bradesco acquires 17 banks throughout the country.
  • 1978: Banco Bradesco branch no. 1000 is inaugurated in Chuí at the southern tip of Brazil.
  • 1991: Amador Aguiar passed away at 86 in São Paulo.
  • 1996: Banco Bradesco the first Latin American Internet Banking system.
  • 1997: Banco Bradesco Banco BCN
  • 2000: Banco Bradesco Argentina commences operations in Buenos Aires. Bradesco Securities commences operations in New York.
  • 2010: Banco Bradesco buys Ibi Mexican (Ibi Services S. de R. L. México) subsidiary, also controlled by C&A.[10]
  • 2011: Banco Bradesco fourth among the world's 500 greenest companies and first among Brazilian companies, according to a list disclosed by Newsweek, prepared in partnership with the consulting firms Trucost and Sustainalyctis.[11]
  • 2015: Banco Bradesco buys HSBC Brazilian unit for $5.2 billion.[6]
  • 2019 - Lázaro de Mello Brandão, President for 36 years, died aged 93.[12]=

See also

References
  1. "Bradesco Presentation - April/2017" (PDF). Banco Bradesco S/A. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  2. "Bradesco RI: Ratings". Banco Bradesco S.A. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  3. "Banco Bradesco on the Forbes Global 2000 list". Forbes. 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  4. "Brandz TOP 50 MOST VALUABLE LATIN AMERICAN BRANDS 2015" (PDF). BrandZ.
  5. "Bradesco Automatic Teller Machines". Banco Bradesco S.A. 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
  6. "HSBC says to sell Brazil unit to Bradesco for $5.2 billion". Reuters. 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  7. "brandZ | LatAm Report". brandz.com. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  8. "Bradesco slogan" (in Portuguese). Banco Bradesco S.A. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  9. "Nossa História" (in Portuguese). Banco Bradesco S.A. 2013-03-10. Retrieved 2013-07-02.
  10. "Bradesco acquire o Controle Societário do Ibi México e firma parceria com a C&A México" (in Portuguese). Banco Bradesco S.A. 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  11. "World's Greenest Companies". Newsweek. 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
  12. "Ex-presidente do Bradesco, Lázaro Brandão morre aos 93 anos". G1.
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