La Banque Postale announced on Tuesday that it was becoming a "
mission
-based " company, a system provided for in the 2019 Pact law and which commits it on a social and environmental level, in the wake of its parent company La Poste last June. .
This new mode of governance "
is an important step
" for the company, greeted AFP the chairman of the executive board Philippe Heim on the sidelines of the publication of the bank's annual results, marked by an increase in activity in 2021 and for the most part revealed during the publication of those of La Poste last Thursday.
It is also “
the logical translation of what La Banque Postale is
”, according to him, referring to the development and future promotion of products and services meeting these challenges.
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The bank had already adopted a “
raison d'être
” last June, centered on the concept of “
just transition
”.
The status of "
company with a mission
", provided for by the Growth Pact law promulgated in May 2019, enjoins a commercial company to pursue extra-financial objectives to which it devotes resources and monitoring.
A mission committee, responsible for monitoring the smooth running of the actions implemented by the company, will therefore be set up.
Composed of 17 members, it will be presented by Natacha Valla, economist and dean of the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po Paris.
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"
There is an urgent need to support the transformation of the banking model, and more broadly of the economy, towards new business models that are more sustainable, more responsible and more in tune with the challenges of our time
", explains her, quoted in a press release.
Only one other banking player has adopted the status of company with a mission: this is Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.