The story
The name Triodos is derived from the Greek "τρὶ- (tri, three) and ὁδος (hodos, road) meaning "meeting of three roads", which for the bank are: people, planet, and profit. The bank was initially founded as an anthroposophical initiative with a mission to promote quality of life in the broad sense.
In 1980 Triodos launched the first "green fund," a fund for environmentally friendly projects, on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Triodos took over the British ethical bank Mercury Provident in 1994.
The bank operations and customer support are mainly offered digitally, but offers some physical banks. In Spain for example, several physical offices have been opened in major towns.
Triodos Bank received the Sustainable Bank of the Year 2009 award from the Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an organization of the World Bank.
As of 2025, Triodos Bank managed around 750,000 customer accounts in Europe.
From Wikipedia’s article on Triodos Bank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5