BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced. Citigroup cancels financing of Indonesian food giant Indofood over palm oil labor abuses Major Asian, European banks and US brands still linked to controversial company.
Russian money laundering machine shifted millions through the Netherlands. Every two weeks a bank, insurer or lender announces new coal restrictions Major financial institutions restricting coal funding tops Dutch banks allow consumers to unwittingly invest in controversial palm oil companies. Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on Human Rights publishes first annual report plus leverage and cocoa papers.
Dutch-based banks continue to finance deforestation and land-grabbing. Rabobank to pay USD million in money-laundering case. ING, Rabobank accused of funding granite companies that use child labour. New report: Towards responsible and inclusive financing of the palm oil sector. Financiers of pulp and paper industry projects will cause environmental and social harm, says new report. Aanklacht: Rabobank medeplichtig aan misdaden drugskartels in Mexico Volledige dochteronderneming beschuldigd van witwassen drugswinsten.
SMX Collective files complaint against Rabobank over drug money laundering and human rights violations in Mexico. Dutch banks spend millions on lobbying The major Dutch banks spend millions on lobby through their own channels, through interest groups like the Association of Dutch Banks VNB and lobby organisations in the Netherlands, the EU and worldwide.
New online platform reveals banks and investors financing companies linked to tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia Financial sector under the spotlight in new international push to protect forests and forest communities.
FoE response to final statement on complaint guidelines on Rabobank and Bumitama. UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed.
Give us back our land: Ugandan oil palm project taken to court over land-grab claims. Banks not yet living up to UN human rights principles, finds BankTrack New research finds inadequate reporting on human rights impacts, and failure to establish mechanisms to allow complaints.
BankTrack calls for strengthening of Green Bond Principles Combatting climate change needs real commitments instead of loose guidelines - Banks must urgently curb fossil fuel financing. European and US financial institutions continue to finance illegal palm oil. From Main Street to Wall Street, US banks and brands support illegal forest destruction for palm oil International investigation names brands and investors behind commodity's boom.
Rabobank will not finance shale gas extraction. European banks and pension funds fuel land-grabs in Uganda. European banks fuel land-grabs in Uganda.
Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency. New report: European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger. Financiers search for sustainable future. New rules for Equator Principles, but no new commitments from banks New governance rules represent missed chance for Equator Principles to take bold steps forward on transparency and accountability.
Investeringen banken: meer fossiel dan duurzaam. BankTrack calls upon banks to Close the Gap on investment policies New report evaluates quality of investment policies of 49 banks; more policies in place, overall quality below what is required.
Civil society groups call for bold steps forward with Equator Principles Major reforms needed on transparency, accountability, implementation and climate change. Dutch banks call for clear agreements on sustainable energy. New website guides Dutch consumers in choosing sustainable bank. Financial institutions vote more in favour of climate.
Banks shun harmful investments New report shows examples of pioneering banks. Documents Type: all our publications correspondence ngo documents other documents csr policies annual reports bank documents company documents internal campaign documents minutes of meeting bankteach. The material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector. Animal welfare and European financial links with deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado.
Links Key documents. Rabobank's Sustainability pages. Sectors Rabobank's view on different food-chain sectors. EPN assessment of policies against 14 minimum criteria - Rabobank Environmental Paper Network EPN evaluated the policies of 68 major financiers of the pulp and paper industry against 14 absolute minimum criteria that all financial institutions should require their clients, investments and business partners to respect in order to reduce social and environmental risks.
Investment policies Rabobank's web page on corporate responsibility can be accessed here. The cooperative model was designed to provide a fair and reliable source of credit to local customers through a system of shared liabilities, pooled resources, and reservation of profits.
Rabobank expanded its business scope and geographic presence throughout the 20th century, adding a broader range of banking and financial services to meet the needs of its customers in the Netherlands and internationally. Even as the bank grew into one of the world's largest financial institutions, the Rabobank Group has remained a cooperative organization—operating on the same principles, and dedicated to serving our customers and their communities.
Ready to Apply? Our research gives you a competitive edge Learn More. Where banks had typically focused on single-product activities, more and more banks were beginning to offer multiple products. In , for example, the country's commercial banks began offering savings accounts for the first time. The farmers banking cooperatives quickly responded to the changing banking climate by expanding their services. In the early s, the cooperatives began offering insurance services.
In the cooperatives added commercial accounts and other services. Two years later, the two cooperatives joined together to form the Bankgirocentrale. By the end of the decade, both cooperatives were also operating travel agency services. At the start of the s, the two cooperatives announced their intention to join forces. The new organization quickly became known as Rabobank. Comprised of more than 1, independent banks, which took on the Rabobank name, the new financial institution became one of the country's top three providers of banking and other financial services.
Despite diversifying its portfolio of financial products since the early s, Rabobank remained focused on providing traditional retail banking products to an exclusively Dutch, and especially agricultural market. In the late s, faced with increasing competition from traditional banks, the farmers' cooperative began to open outwards. In s, Rabobank joined with a number of other European banking cooperatives to form the Unico Banking Group.
Two years later, Rabobank dropped the membership requirement for its private depositors; only customers arranging business and professional loans were required to become Rabobank members. This change enabled Rabobank to find wider appeal among the general Netherlands population, and by the s the bank was able to claim that roughly half of the country's 14 million citizens were customers of one or more of its financial products. Nevertheless, Rabobank succeeded in retaining a large membership base, which neared some , by the end of the century.
Rabobank's future growth opportunities in the Netherlands remained limited, however. Yet increasing pressure from its capital-rich, publicly listed competitors, at a time when financial barriers among European Community member states had begun to fall--culminating with the introduction of a single European currency in forced Rabobank to look beyond the Netherlands' borders.
Also during that year, Rabobank opened its first overseas office, in London, heralding the launch of the company's global operations, Rabobank International. Rabobank also began stepping up diversification of its product portfolio. The ideal of standing stronger together catches on in the Netherlands and across the Dutch countryside farmers and horticulturists begin establishing their own local agricultural cooperative banks.
They become owners, members and managers of the bank, sharing responsibility accordingly. Rather than paying out the profits to the members, they are added to the reserves year by year, gradually building up a solid foundation for hard times and lean years. These two organisations become the central bank for the local banks and play a facilitating role in a number of areas.
The two merge in to become Rabobank Nederland, a cooperative in which all local Rabobanks are members and shareholders.
They remain so to this day. In , the two central institutions had a total of 67 affiliated agricultural cooperative banks. At its high point in , there were 1, From that point on, local mergers reduced the number of local banks dramatically and within a few years from now the organisation will consists of approximately one hundred local Rabobanks.
Over the course of the 20th century, the originally small credit cooperatives of farmers and horticulturists are rooted in village and town. But gradually, the changing economy increases the demand for banking services in all sectors of society.
In the latter half of the century, the bank begins welcoming an increasing number of non-agricultural businesses and later also private individuals, as customers.
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