Banco do Brasil is much better placed to weather the economic storm caused by the global coronavirus pandemic than it was during the Brazilian recession of 2016, according to the bank’s CFO, Carlos Hamilton Vasconcelos Araújo.
He tells Euromoney that he expects the bank to be less negatively affected than Brazil’s large private-sector banks.
“Our credit portfolio is more defensive than the banking industry average,” he says. “When compared to the system, we don’t expect the same impact in our portfolio.
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