Triodos Bank

As of December 31, 2015, the Triodos Banking Group had a business volume of around EUR 12.3 billion, issued over 44,000 loans and managed over 700,000 customer accounts in Europe.

[6] The Triodos Bank prioritizes investing into environmentally friendly initiatives[citation needed], and refers to its work as the anthroposophical principle of social three folding.

[7] The bank transfers its customers' deposits exclusively to the real economy,[8] thereby financing companies, organizations, and projects which it believes contribute to ecological, social or cultural change.

[8] In accordance with this philosophy, Triodos Bank in Germany purchases electricity from the green energy provider Naturstrom AG.

Triodos Bank will however, to the best of its knowledge, exclude all organizations, businesses, and activities that produce or distribute nuclear energy, weapons, fur, pornography and environmentally hazardous substances".

Triodos has managed trading in certificates itself since its inception, the price being determined by the bank's net asset value, and updated periodically.

They joined forces in November 2021 in the 'Triodom' platform, from which the Triodos Bank Depositary Receipt Holders Foundation was established in March 2022, representing concerned customers with a combined depository capacity of €120 million.

On 10 October 2022 the foundation filed a petition with the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal asking it to investigate,[18] which the bank regrets.

However, in August 2022, the bank announced that this plan would be withdrawn and instead paid an extraordinary dividend of €1.01 per depository receipt (before withholding tax).

Former Headquarters of Triodos bank in Zeist , Netherlands