BMO Financial Group takes top spot among major Canadian banks in 21st edition of theCorporate Knights ranking
Ranked first among major Canadian banks, BMO received top-quartile scores in board gender diversity, executive diversity, and sustainability pay link. It also received a top-quartile Clean Revenue score driven by its sustainable finance strategy.
"We're honoured to be among the top corporate citizens in
The Best 50 Corporate Citizens honorees are selected from a pool of 332 Canadian companies with revenues over $1 billion. Each is evaluated on a set of up to 21 environmental, social and governance indicators, relative to their industry peers and using publicly available information.
Carbon neutral in its own operations since 2010, BMO announced its Net-Zero Ambition to be its clients' lead partner in the transition to a net-zero world in March 2021. It is committed to deploying $300 billion in capital to clients pursuing sustainable outcomes by 2025 and, since
BMO's leadership on sustainability has been recognized on a number of rankings, including
For more information on BMO's commitment to a sustainable future, please visit the bank's latest Sustainability Report. To learn more about sustainable finance at BMO click here. For BMO's Net-Zero Ambition, visit its Climate webpage.
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.04 trillion as of April 30, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking,
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