The last two years have been characterised by an unexpected and unprecedented global health crisis, and in 2022 war has broken out on our doorstep with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Both these events have prompted us to reassert our orientations and convictions, be it our commitment to society that we reaffirmed at the beginning of December or the Group’s strategic orientations embodied by the three pillars of its development plan: human, customer and societal.
Dominique Lefebvre and Philippe Brassac are doubling down on our climate commitments as we help our customers, particularly those in the farming and agrifood industries, navigate the energy transition and set about keeping our promise to be carbon-neutral by 2050 at the latest, as well as our commitments to social cohesion and inclusion in France for all our customers, young and old.
The pandemic has underlined the importance of our model of developing as a global relationship bank. The Group’s financial strength and performance in 2021 was the fruit of our growth model and above all has enabled us to redistribute our profits. We must ensure that all our stakeholders benefit from our position of strength, which is particularly important during periods of economic tension.
At the start of this year, our priority has been to keep a close eye on our employees who have been affected by the conflict in Ukraine.
In 2022, we will continue with our Medium-Term Plan and reaffirm our strategic orientations. We are proud to have demonstrated that our primary objective, namely being of use to our customers and to society, can help rather than hinder profitability.
We will get there together, and our 2025 Medium-Term Plan that we will present on 22 June will demonstrate how.
