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Contents
Message from the Chairman of the Board of Directors 6
Message from the CEO 8
2020 in Figures 10
Performance during Covid-19 16
About this Material 20 Materiality 22
Our DNA 24
Our Strategic Positioning 26 Business Model 30 Much more than a Bank 35 Sustainability at Bradesco 42
Solid and Transparent Governance 50 Integrity and Ethics 53 Risk Management 56
Generating Value 62 Results in a Challenging Year 64 Focus on the Client 76 Technology and Innovation 91 People: Our Team 102 Investing in the Future 122 Eco-efficiency 128
Investor Relations 131
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Introduction
It’s impossible to talk about a year like Despite the uncertainties in 2020, we 2020 without weighing the impacts also delivered strong results for the brought on by an unprecedented Organization, including a growth in our pandemic that modified the way we view quarterly net income throughout the our relationships with work, with people year, an expanded loan portfolio and and with the planet. a significant increase in the number of transactions through our digital This sudden collapse in all things we had channels – a situation that emphasizes considered normal paved the way for us the importance of providing the most to see the world in a different light. The convenient, modern, fast and secure focus on managing environmental, social banking experience for the client. and governance factors, along with a true contribution to sustainable development, While we already worked in a committed has grown to make elements even more and responsible manner before, now relevant and integral in our decisions – we strive to be leaders of change in not only as a matter of responsibility, but the coming “Decade of Action”, as the also as a business belief and strategy. United Nations (UN) has been referring to these next 10 years. Over the This was the year we revised our following pages, you will learn how we corporate strategy by establishing put this strategy into practice. It’s what positive agendas associated with all makes us unique, and we have been of our businesses and focusing on the working in this manner for almost eight roots of our origins: client centricity. decades through an ecosystem that is We have invested even more in continuously improving. technology to not only improve our communications, but to also expedite Enjoy the reading! shifts in the way people interact with Bradesco to make it much easier.
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How to Read the Report1
Capitals In each chapter, we will point out the correlations between the FINANCIAL SHARE topics discussed and the directives CAPITAL CAPITAL proposed through the integrated reporting methodology, the HUMAN MANUFACTURED stakeholders who are impacted and CAPITAL CAPITAL the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which our activities have INTELLECTUAL NATURAL contributed. The correlation is done CAPITAL CAPITAL using icons (on the right side).
The other subsidiaries are always Stakeholders represented by their names. When CL CLIENTS G GOVERNMENT/ we talk about our professional REGULATORY AGENCIES staff, we always use the term PI INTERNAL AUDIENCE CD COMMUNITY/SOCIETY/ “employee”. The term associate is AI SHAREHOLDERS TERTIARY SECTOR used only to refer to outsourced AND INVESTORS service providers. F SUPPLIERS
1. Throughout this report, the Organization’s direct SDGs and indirect contribution to the 2030 Agenda Elimination 1 10 Reducing inequalities - the Sustainable Development Goals will be of poverty documented. Find out more about the prioritized Sustainable Cities SDGs in the Sustainability Chapter on page 42. Zero hunger and 11 and Communities 2 sustainable agriculture Sustainable consumption 12 3 Health and well-being and production 4 Quality education Action against global 13 5 Gender equality climate change Clean water 14 Life below water 6 and sanitation 15 Life on land Affordable and 7 Peace, justice and clean energy 16 strong institutions Decent work and 8 Partnerships and means economic growth 17 Bradesco prioritized SDGs of implementation Industry, innovation 9 and infrastructure
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Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi Chairman of the Board of Directors MESSAGE FROM THE Chairman of the Board of Directors
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2020 was a year unlike any other. In 2020, companies and investors We believe in the power of the Punctuated by the covid-19 around the world stepped up their digital world and in the extensive pandemic, it put us to the test commitment to environmental, use of data to optimize the and appeared as one of the most social and governance (ESG) issues. customer experience without challenging moments in our At Bradesco, sustainability is a key overlooking the traditional history. But even within such a component of our strategy and it parameters: quality service difficult landscape, we were able has gained even more momentum and transparent relationships. to find opportunities that, once over the last year. We have amplified The daily goal is to effect again, made us reinvent ourselves our activities in sustainable finance transformations and strive through the perspective of and now exclusively use renewable to adapt to a world in which innovation and evolution. energy and carbon neutralization in paradigms are continually our business. shattered. Today, we have We reinforced our core mission a complete platform for all – 100% focus on the client – In 2021, we will take further stages of our clients’ lives with remaining always at their side measures to ensure that nationwide coverage and strategic during this time filled with Bradesco’s businesses generate points abroad, ensuring a physical considerable uncertainties. even more long-term value and digital presence designed to We believe in Brazil and in the for our various stakeholders support every type of client. ability of its people to overcome and contribute to achieving challenges and to create wealth. the Sustainable Development Our goal for 2021 and the coming I can truly state that we are Goals (SDGs), such as steering years is to use the power of optimistic about the future. the force of innovation towards innovation in traditional processes. sustainability, improving the It involves observing what we have We have paid close attention to management of climatic factors done thus far and understanding social responsibility since the in our business decisions, and clients’ needs right now, but with a beginning of our activities, and enhancing transparency about our view towards the future. We have the prime example is Fundação practices and performance. seen the evolution of humanity and Bradesco. We care deeply about we are committed to adapting our people’s lives and the continuity of The longevity of our business is performance to grow along with it, companies, and this has not changed also based on principles that are thereby fulfilling our mission in the during the pandemic. We continue to embedded in our daily performance, best possible way, while remaining be mindful of the health and safety including prudent asset and liability within the ethics and transparency of our workers, employees and management of the bank and the that have guided us thus far. clients. We have intensified the use insurance company, as well as the and availability of digital solutions in pursuit of appropriate returns on Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi an effort to make sure that everyone capital for shareholders. Chairman of the can continue their activities in the Board of Directors midst of the restrictions imposed by this ongoing situation.
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Octavio de Lazari Junior President and CEO
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
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This year, surrounded by so much The pandemic has accelerated We finished off the year with uncertainty, we came across new trends that have already a recurring net income of opportunities. We have evolved been taking place, like new R$19.5 billion. We posted a strong greatly and have learned many developments in the use of operational performance and we lessons, remaining close to our digital channels. In 2020, 98% of set aside provisions for loan losses clients and continuing to play a transactions were done digitally, throughout the year, thereby role in the development of the most notably through cell phones allowing our balance sheet to country. We act quickly to ensure and the internet. This represents remain resilient in facing that our service is delivered while a 14% growth over the previous potential defaults generated making sure to comply at all times year. We have also made progress by the pandemic. with procedures prescribed for the in credit collection and recovery health of employees and clients. through our digitalization. For 2021, we will continue with the goal of combining environmental The client is at the center of our Accordingly, we have continued to preservation, social actions and strategy, and this is embedded pursue our strategy of innovation corporate governance in all in our DNA. Based on our clients’ by driving “next”, our 100% digital our businesses – secure in the needs, stages in life and dreams, bank; Bitz, the Group’s new knowledge that we are on the right we adapt and shape our growth. company that is active within the track. It will be a challenging year, They are what motivate us. Each Brazilian market of digital wallets especially given the uncertainties and every client is unique, and and payment accounts; and Ágora that still prevail in relation to the understanding their essence Investimentos, which serves in a pandemic, as well as the economic and their demands is essential in complementary and essential way and fiscal conditions of the ensuring an effective and trusting in our portfolio. In addition, BIA country. But we are optimistic as to relationship in terms of our (Bradesco Inteligência Artificial or the opportunities that the future product offerings, as well as the Bradesco Artificial Intelligence) will hold and we will continue to continuity of the business. is becoming a bigger part of watch over the financial health of the lives of users, the result of individuals and business owners Throughout the year, we provided investments in technologies, with an eye towards economic financial and logistical support to algorithms and information. responsibility, a focus on business a number of initiatives; postponed continuity, and the satisfaction of and renegotiated loan operations; We were also able to announce shareholders and our clients. and invested in using data to in 2020 that, for the 15th time, more accurately address specific Bradesco was included in the Dow Octavio de Lazari Junior needs while shifting towards using Jones Sustainability Index – taking President and CEO modeling by personas – mapping part of the World and Emerging groups of client with similar Markets portfolios in the 2020- characteristics. We work side by 2021 cycle. Out of the 250 banks side with people and companies to assessed globally, we ranked in fifth minimize impacts during the most place with the best performance in difficult periods. We continue on Brazil for the sector. together, whether to reach our goals or to rise above challenges.
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Results
Net income of Aggregate value of R$1.6 trillion in total assets R$19.5 billion R$57.1 billion
R$5.1 billion net income from insurance operations
Client at the Center
70.2 million 30.6 million 21.2 million clients insured clients clients with a digital profile2
32.3 million 79,870 thousand 8,840 branches + Express Service account holders service points Points (PAEs)/Service Points (PAs)
Retail
37.9 million 3,049 branches 54,522 ATMs non-account holders (i.e., 3,915 Service Points (PAs) those using the Organization’s
products, except existing 30,694 Bradesco machines 822 Express Service Points (PAEs) checking accounts) business units 23,828 Banco24Horas machines 708 39,100 correspondent bank network
2. It includes clients using Mobile and/or Internet channels (individuals and companies).
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market value market
R$226,8 billion billion R$226,8
shareholders shareholders
Commitment to to Commitment
Source: www.conta-corrente.com/bancos/bradesco/bradesco-comeca-oferecer-credito-por-meio-do-pix/. Source: 3.
corporate accounts) corporate
82.400 and accounts individual
. exclusive credit line for Pix for line credit exclusive
3
897 thousand 897 out on Digital Channels Digital on out ( App the via opened private bank to establish an an establish to bank private
979.4 98%
thousand thousand accounts accounts of transactions carried carried transactions of Bradesco is the first the is Bradesco
Points in 2020 in Points year each
interactions in 2020 in interactions keys registered Service into converted technology in invested
700+ 700+ 6 426.3 14.6 branches billion R$ million million BIA: million PIX:
and Innovation and
Technology
with disabilities with interns
4,248 1,118 employees employees
women people black employees
50.6% 26.5% 89,575
People
Our Our
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Incentive Donations4
More than R$14 million donated to projects Around R$6 million donated to that are supported by the Municipal Fund for the National Oncology Care Support Children and Adolescents (Fumcad) and to projects Program (Pronon) that protect the social rights of the elderly
4. The Organization is also active in other incentive projects. More information will be available in the complementary version of the Integrated Report to be published in May 2021.
Fundação Bradesco
Since 1956 R$680.3 million invested in 2020
1.9 million 46+ thousand students in distance learning students benefited, with around 87% from provided through the Virtual School impoverished areas served by the Fundação
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Focus on Sustainability
The Brazilian private sector 100% 100% bank best posicioned in the of the operations powered by of carbon Dow Jones Sustainability Index energy from renewable sources emissions neutralized
Upgrade in the rating by Morgan 1st Brazilian bank to adopt Introduction of the Amazon Stanley Capital International’s the Partnership for Carbon Plan (Plano Amazônia Bradesco), (MSCI) ESG Ratings5, increasing Accounting Financials (PCAF), in partnership with Itaú and from A to AA, ranking the Organization a global initiative to measure the Santander, helping to promote among the leaders of the 200 banks carbon emissions generated by the sustainable development rated globally. activities of financial institutions. in the Amazon
Ranking in the Silver level for Upgrade in the Carbon Issuance of Bradesco’s the third consecutive year in Disclosure Project (CDP) first sustainable bond, the “The Sustainability Yearbook from B to A-, joining the which raised R$1.2 billion 2021”, published annually by S&P, group of leading companies in to finance assets with a which recognizes companies with managing Climate Change. focus on the climate. the best practices in sustainability throughout the world.
5. Index designed to measure a company’s resilience to environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks that are relevant to the industry.
To learn more, please access www.bradescosustentabilidade.com.br
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Suppliers
7,581 suppliers 1,377 new suppliers 2,492 R$18.6 billion registered in the base approved in the year active contacts purchase volume (SPEND)
Bradesco Seguros
Bradesco Saúde Efetivo 13 22.4% Over 6 million More than R$32.7 markets share downloads in the billion in claims and states + DF with over 74 Bradesco Seguros App benefits paid thousand beneficiaries
Over 1.3 million items sold 19 Meu Doutor/Novamed via internet banking, ATMs and primary care units currently mobile devices operational
30.6 million policyholders/ participants in the Pension Plan and Capitalization clients6
6. Excluding client overlap.
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Performance during Covid-19
2020 brought moments filled with anxiety and challenges. However, we continued to invest in several areas of society, particularly in combating coronavirus through our Social Donation process.
We have focused on defeating the pandemic, a situation we are still experiencing, working alongside other banks to procure and donate 5 million kits for rapid test, 30 CT scanners, 30 pieces of PCR equipment for diagnosing infections in real time and 15 million masks, serving the Ministry of Health and state departments.
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The Health and Ricardo do Amaral (Psychiatrist) and free of charge through Well-Being of were also interviewed, providing Unibrad (such as an English details on preventing and treating course, in partnership with our People Covid-19, including the emotional the Education First school) via impacts of social distancing. integra rh, our Human Capital In 2020, due to the surge of the Management platform. coronavirus, we committed to • In critical regions, such as those actions designed to protect all our with a high rate of positive • Advanced payment of employees, including: Covid-19 cases (like in Manaus, employees’ 13th salary Belém and São Luís), establishing (year-end bonus). • Bradesco’s Well-being and active contacts with employees Quality of Life Program – through a team of doctors and • Offering flexibility for grocery Viva Bem (Living Well). nurses to reinforce care and and meal benefits. prevention measures; to monitor • Adopting the emergency the status of health; and to verify contingency movement. the need for psychosocial support.
• Publicizing our guidelines through • Tools that thousands of email marketing and pamphlets employees need to be able to We have provided available on the Corporate perform their duties at home. 141 thousand serological Portal, which include tips and We invested in technology tests to detect Covid-19, free instructions on preventive care infrastructure – with VPN – and of charge to all our employees during year-end holidays in order equipment; and we supplied and interns. to raise employees’ awareness notebooks, CPUs, headphones as to the spread of coronavirus and cell phones. during this period. • New ways of sharing information • Disclosure of explanatory through tools such as Yammer, videos on the Covid-19 issue, Stream and Teams, allowing including an interview with Dr. our team to stay integrated and 1,200 participants in Talita Almeida, an occupational connected. physical activities streamed online physician and manager of Bradesco’s Well-being and • Providing our employees and Quality of Life Program. Doctors interns with access to various David Uip (Infectologist) and topics and courses offered online
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Support to Participation in the following CGPE (Working Capital Program for Clients government programs: the Preservation of Companies): this We are in complete operational special line of credit that aims to help capacity to carry out both our PRONAMPE (National Program companies maintain and expand their administrative duties (BackOffice) to Support Micro and Small activities had R$3.3 billion allocated and those of our commercial teams/ Businesses): an emergency line of by Bradesco in 2020. branch network to assist our clients, credit (through a guarantee from complying with all safety procedures the Operation Guarantee Fund, FGI PEAC (Emergency Credit Access recommended by the Ministry of managed by Banco do Brasil) that Program): a line of credit to broaden Health, including the use of masks, facilitated access to credit, thereby access to credit by minimizing the making hand sanitizers available for fortifying small businesses and risk of the operation through a employees and clients, and adopting preserving jobs. We allocated complementary guarantee from minimum distance requirements R$2.7 billion to Pronampe in 2020. the Investment Guarantee Fund between clients in branches. (FGI), whose administrator is BNDES. PESE (Emergency Employment Bradesco allocated R$15.5 billion to Support Program): Bradesco the program throughout the year. EXTENDED OPERATIONS allocated R$1.6 billion in 2020 to this credit line to cover the payroll of R$48 billion companies with revenues between accounting balance net R$360,000 and R$50 million of amortizations (including the economic group), without any restrictions or pending issues with the Bank.
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Charitable Actions for the Community
• 5 million rapid tests imported • Refurbishing and procuring • Activation of ICU beds at from a pool of institutions equipment and climatization Hospital Universitário Clementino for ICU beds in hospitals and Fraga Filho • Strategic partnerships with Santa Casa companies and organizations in • Adoption of ICU beds in one of the health sector • Establishment of the Field the wards of the Hospital das Hospital in Salvador Clínicas intended for onco- • Donation of 15 million masks hematology patients to other institutions • Donation of 26 thousand tests to serve communities • Support for the project to • Purchase of 30 CT scanners construct a factory at the and other equipment in • Support for the production of Instituto Butantan for the partnership with Itaú and ventilators at a low cost production of vaccines Santander • Donation of 150 thousand • Building of the field hospital in food staples to support Leblon, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), and municipal communities Salvador (BA)
Commitment to the Ecosystem of Innovation
Online events and content Digital habitat: the Book of opportunities: (inovabra streaming): habitat operation model solutions devised, over 65 thousand people has been expanded to adapted and shared were impacted through digital as well. The new by startups from the inovabra the events that were broadcast and format, which compliments the ecosystem to minimize the effects later accessed remotely through the physical one, can accommodate of the pandemic. content platform created for the startups and companies from in-house and external public, with all over the country that wish to videos about technology, society have access to open innovation. and business. Over the course of 2020, 529 co-innovation activities were conducted with major corporations and 159 contracts were signed.
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About this Material
Our 2020 Integrated Report compiles the most important actions and results of the year based on the four pillars that make up the Organization’s strategic planning (Client, Efficiency, People and Sustainability) and the 12 topics currently considered the most relevant by us and our stakeholders and which will be shown below in the process of materiality review. This report was prepared according to the GRI Standards: Essential option.
The purpose of the report is to make readers aware of our essence as an Organization and the results attained for the year thanks to the pillars that sustain us. The publication will highlight our DNA, the way we organize ourselves and our strategic outlook, allowing us to describe the key deliverables in the three axes that make up sustainable business management: economic, social and environmental.
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In response to the growing demand for reporting and transparency on environmental, social and governance (ESG) information, this report adheres to the following guidelines, methodologies and frameworks:
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), standard version ((the GRI indicators will be included in the complementary version of the Integrated Report to be published in May 2021)
Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE), B3 (Brazilian Exchange & OTC)
Guidelines from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) regarding climate change risks and opportunities
Integrated Reporting, by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI)
Abrasca Code of Self- Regulation and Best Practices for Publicly-Held Companies
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
CDP
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation Amazon – AM
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Materiality
The survey was conducted between As a result of this initial analysis, the months of November and the list of topics and their December through interviews respective sub-themes related with the Organization’s senior to Bradesco’s business had been management, investors and revised. At the same time, with regulators; and an online survey was input from the business managers used with the other stakeholders. and a study of the sector, a We conducted a strategic review of mapping of the stakeholders It should be noted that members of our materiality in 2020. The review who were queried to prioritize the Board of Directors and investors process listed the relevant topics the listed topics was made. The were also active participants in this according to our stakeholders’ guidelines in the AA1000 Standard process, demonstrating their full expectations. The methodology of stakeholder engagement were commitment and understanding adopted covered Bradesco’s used for this process. In total, there of the challenges faced by the strategic pillars; the analysis were around 400 interactions with Organization. This alignment of national and international the following stakeholders: defines the pathways in the search competition as well as of sector for solutions that encompass all Senior management studies – such as S&P’s Dow Jones stakeholders. Sustainability Index, Sustainability Clients Accounting Standard (SASB Suppliers Standard) for Commercial Banks Employees and Investment and The Global Investors Risks Report 2020 of the World Regulatory bodies and Economic Forum –; and alignment industry associations with the 2030 Agenda. Society
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The image below illustrates the new ordering of the Organization’s most essential themes.
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