It would seem that activities of a bank have little to do with corporate social responsibility or human rights. But you manage to prove there is a close connection.
Małgorzata Zdzienicka-Grabarz, Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas: There is a close connection – offering financial products to our clients, we want to know how the funds will be spent. We want the customers to use them to make the world a better place but first and foremost we make sure that our financing does not support actions that are non-responsible, for instance by violating human rights.
This sounds rather grandiloquent.
This is what the mission statement of Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas says. It also works in practice. In our bank, not only in Poland but also in other, foreign branches, we have a system for monitoring the risk of seven sensitive sectors in place. This applies for instance to the defence, forestry, agriculture, food, coal or mining sectors. So if a client operating in one of those industries applies for financing, they must pass a certain procedure before being approved.
What does it look like in practice?
