Business First Bancshares Inc - ESG Rating & Company Profile powered by AI
This ESG rating covers 17 UN SDGs including: 'No Poverty', 'Climate Action' and 'Life below Water'. This dashboard includes a Q&A table about Business First Bancshares Inc. The SDG assessment for Business First Bancshares Inc represents the company's transparency towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Business First Bancshares Inc in the Banks industry gained a UN SDG ESG Transparency Score of 3.0; made up of an environmental score of 1.3, social score of 2.3 and governance score of 5.3.
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Peer Group Comparison
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2 | UniCredit Bank AG | 9.0 | High |
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1125 | Texas Community Bancshares Inc | 3.1 | Medium |
1125 | Skue Sparebank | 3.1 | Medium |
1136 | Business First Bancshares Inc | 3.0 | Medium |
1136 | Cairo Amman Bank PSC | 3.0 | Medium |
1136 | Capitol Federal Financial Inc | 3.0 | Medium |
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1885 | sakartvelos bank'i ss | 0.0 | Low |
1885 | AlphaCredit Capital, S.A. de C.V. | 0.0 | Low |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for b1BANK that provides various banking products and services. It offers various deposit products and services, including checking, demand, money market, time, and savings accounts; and certificates of deposits, remote deposit capture, and direct deposit services. The company also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as commercial lines of credit, letters of credit, working capital, term, equipment financing, asset acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, and other loan products; construction and development loans; commercial real estate loans; residential real estate loans comprising first and second lien 1-4 family mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and consumer loans, including secured and unsecured installment and term loans. In addition, it offers wealth management products, including mutual funds, annuities, individual retirement accounts, and other financial products, as well as other fiduciary services and private banking products and services. Further, the company provides a range of other financial services comprising debit and credit cards, treasury and cash management, merchant, automated clearing house, lock-box, receivables factoring, correspondent banking, and other treasury services, as well as employee and payroll benefits solutions; and drive-through banking facilities, automated teller machines, night depository, personalized checks, electronic funds transfer, domestic and foreign wire transfer, traveler's checks, vault, loan and deposit sweep accounts, online and mobile banking, e-statements, and bank-by-mail services. As of March 01, 2022, it operates approximately 48 full-service banking centers and three loan production offices across Louisiana, and in the Dallas and Houston markets. Business First Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.