Banco do Brasil SA engages in the provision of banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Brasilia, Distrito Federal. The company went IPO on 2004-01-26. The Bank's activities are divided into five business segments: Banking, which offers deposits, loans and other banking services in the retail, corporate, wholesale and public sectors; Investments, which focuses on the structuring and distribution of debt and equity instruments in Brazilian primary and secondary capital markets; Fund management, which is mainly responsible for the purchase, sale and custody of securities, as well as portfolio management; Insurance, which provides products and services related to life, property and automobile insurance, private pension and capitalization plans, and Electronic payments, which includes services related to administration of credit and debit cards, such as capture, transmission, processing and financial settlement. The Bank operates through numerous subsidiaries in the domestic and international market.
