Company name
Banistmo S.A.
Project number
PN3764A-02
FI-2 operations are those where the risk potential is considered medium: the FI’s current or future portfolio consists of or is expected to consist of, business activities that have potential limited adverse environmental or social risks or impacts that are few in number, generally site-specific, largely reversible, and readily addressed through mitigation measures; or includes a very limited number of business activities with potential adverse environmental or social risks or impacts that are diverse, irreversible, or unprecedented.
E&S category
FI-2
Country
Panama
Sector
Financial Institutions
Status
Completed
Disclosed date
07/30/2015
Projected date at which a project will be put forward for the Board of Executive Directors’ approval.
Projected board date
09/08/2015
Approval date
09/14/2015
Signed date
10/28/2015
Sponsoring entity
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Investment Operations Department Contact
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Investment type
Syndicated amount
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Financing amount
USD $ 40,000,000
Currency
USD
Project scope and objective
Banistmo is an entity domiciled in Panama. It began operating in 1973 and was acquired in October 2013 by Bancolombia S.A., a financial entity that is Colombian in origin and has a net worth of US$8 billion, making it the eighth largest private bank in Latin America. Banistmo is a full-service bank regulated by Panama’s banking regulator (Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá). It provides a wide variety of financial services both directly and through its affiliates, mainly to institutions and natural persons. In addition to consumer banking and services to corporate clients, Banistmo provides financial leasing, trust asset management and services like payment, registry, brokerage, and trading of securities.
Banistmo is the second largest private bank in Panama. It had a market share of 12 percent as of March 2015 by deposits and a 14 percent market share by loan portfolio. It is a diversified bank, with 17 percent of its portfolio in the consumer sector, 27 percent in residential mortgage lending, and 56 percent in corporate lending. Banistmo has 455,000 customers, 55 branches, and more than 300 ATMs. Micro, small, and medium sized enterprises account for 63% of the total number of enterprises financed by the Bank. The rest are large corporate clients.
The objective of this financing is to support small and medium-sized companies, in Panama mainly but also in Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Peru, Suriname, The Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago, where the Bank has an opportunity to grow through credit transactions to finance working capital or the purchase of fixed assets.
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PHONE
+1(202)-566-4566
ADDRESS
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Environmental and social review
IDB Invest conducts an environmental and social due diligence (ESDD) commensurate with the nature, scale, and stage of the project, and with its level of environmental and social risks and impacts. The ESDD will confirm the project E&S categorization and assess the project with respect to the client requirements in IDB Invest Environmental and Social Sustainability Policy. The results of the ESDD, including any identified gaps are described in the Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) provided below. For projects approved as of 2016, any gaps with respect to IDB Invest's Environmental and Social Sustainability Policy at the time of the ESDD are addressed in the Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) presented below, to comply with the date mentioned above.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL REVIEW
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