Bper creates Sustainability Committee and enters Borsa Italiana’s Mib Esg index

The Board of Directors of Bper Banca has set up the Sustainability Committee, which holds advisory and propositional functions, supporting the activities of the Board with reference to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and with reflection on all the processes through which Bper guarantees the pursuit of sustainable development. The Committee, according to a note, is chaired by the Chairman of Bper Banca, Flavia Mazzarella, and made up of the Bank’s directors Riccardo Barbieri and Elisa Valeriani. Bper Banca has been included in the new Mib ESG index of Borsa Italiana, part of the Euronext group, dedicated to national blue-chips which groups together the large listed Italian issuers presenting the best ESG practices. The index, launched by Euronext in collaboration with Vigeo Eiris (part of Moody’s Esg Solutions), combines the measurement of economic performance with ESG assessments in line with the principles of the United Nations Global Compact. “We wanted – explains the president of Bper Banca, Flavia Mazzarella – to create an internal board committee that governs the positioning of Bper Banca on sustainability issues. I am very satisfied with this result, which summarizes the importance that these issues cover at a strategic level to the The evolution of Bper Banca’s ESG governance also concerns the managerial levels: the ESG Strategy Office has been set up which, positioned directly reporting to the Board of Directors, will support, across the board, all the functions of the bank in the management of Esg issues. The entry into the new Mib Esg index of Borsa Italiana – concludes Mazzarella – further confirms the goodness of the work we are carrying out “. For Bper Banca, sustainability must be understood as a real lever of global development, capable of improving competitiveness and building shared value for all stakeholders. In fact, the Bank continues its path of sustainable growth with increasingly challenging objectives, as indicated in the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the principles of the UN Global Compact, to which it has adhered since 2017. Last July, Bper Banca also signed the Principles for Responsible Banking of Unep-Fi, in order to help create a better, more inclusive and sustainable society.