Itaú Unibanco

Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A
Type Sociedade Anônima
Traded as BM&F Bovespa: ITUB3, ITUB4
NYSEITUB
Industry Finance and Insurance
Founded 2008 (merger of Itaú and Unibanco)
Headquarters São Paulo, Brazil
Area served Worldwide
Key people Roberto Egydio Setubal, (CEO)
Pedro Moreira Salles, (Chairman)
Products Banking
Investment banking
Private equity
Asset Management
Private banking
Insurance
Retail Banking
Revenue US$ 71.4 Billion (2010) [1]
Net income US$ 8.3 Billion (2010) [2]
Total assets US$ 540.2 Billion (2011)
Employees 110.000
Parent Itaúsa
Subsidiaries Redecard
Banco Itaú Chile
Banco Itaú Argentina
Banco Itaú Paraguay
Website Itauunibancoir.com

Itaú Unibanco (BM&F Bovespa: ITUB3, ITUB4 / NYSEITUB) is a publicly quoted bank with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. The bank is the result of the merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco, which occurred on November 4, 2008 to form Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A, the largest financial conglomerate in the Southern Hemisphere and is the 10th largest bank in the world by market value. The bank ist listed at the BM&F Bovespa in São Paulo and in NYSE in New York. Currently is the second biggest Brazilian bank by assest, afeter Banco do Brasil.

Itaú Unibanco owns the Redecard, the second largest Brazilian card payment company. Itaú Unibanco accounts for about 11% of the Brazilian market for retail banking services. It has operations in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay in South America, as well as in England, Luxembourg and Portugal in Europe, USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong and UAE in Asia. It is the most important subsidiary of Investimentos Itaúsa, a large conglomerate that ranks among Fortune magazine's top 500 corporations in the world. The bank has offices in Asuncion, Buenos Aires, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Montevideo, Nassau, New York, Santiago, Shanghai and Tokyo On August 22, 2009, Itaú Unibanco and insurance company Porto Seguro disclosed that they had entered into an alliance.[3]

The alliance aims to combine their residential and automobile insurance operations and includes an Operating Agreement under which the alliance will have exclusive access to offer and distribute homeowner and auto insurance products to clients of Itaú Unibanco's branch network in Brazil and Uruguay (“Alliance”). Currently the bank has over 5,000 bank branches and ATMs in Brazil and in the world.

See also

List of companies paying monthly dividends

References

  1. ^ [1] Itaú Unibanco end 2010 FY revenues of R$ 82.6/US$ 49.4 Billion
  2. ^ Itaú Unibanco 2010 net income R$ 12.5/US$7.4 Billion
  3. ^ "Latest Merger Could Redraw Brazil's Insurance Map". The Wall Stree Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090824-712407.html. Retrieved 2009-08-24. 

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