Banco Bradesco S.A. is a Brazilian financial services company headquartered in Osasco, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the third largest banking institution by assets in Brazil and Latin America. It is also one of fifty most valuable banks in the world. The bank is listed at the B3 in São Paulo, where it is part of the Índice Bovespa, in the New York Stock Exchange and in the Madrid Stock Exchange.
Its primary financial services revolve around commercial banking, offering Internet Banking, insurance, pension plans, annuities, credit card services (including football club affinity cards for fans) for customers, and savings bonds. The bank also provides personal and commercial loans, as well as leasing services.
Bradesco has 5,314 branches, 4,834 service branches and 38,430 banking correspondents.[1] Bradesco customers can also use 34,859[6] automatic teller machines and 12,975 ATMs of the Banco24Horas, a Brazilian third-party ATM network. Bradesco is a pioneer in using the ATM biometric reading system in Brazil, which enables customers to be identified using the vascular pattern of their hands, serving as a complementary password, available at its 31,474 own ATMs and 5,549 ATMs of Banco24Horas.
Internationally, Bradesco have one branch in New York, two branches 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. Banco Bradesco grew its value by more than 50 percent compared with 2017.[7]
Slogan
Entre nós, você vem primeiro means "Between us, you come first" in Portuguese.[8]
History
- March 10, 1943: Banco Brasileiro de Descontos S.A. founded by Amador Aguiar[9] in 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 launches 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.
See also
- ATM Industry Association (ATMIA)
External links
References
- Bradesco Presentation - April/2017 Banco Bradesco S/A, 2017-04-30, retrieved 2017-05-03^
- Bradesco RI: Ratings Banco Bradesco S.A., retrieved 2017-05-03^
- Banco Bradesco on the Forbes Global 2000 list