Sustainability

Our Approach

Our approach to Sustainability is an integral part of who we are, our culture and values, and how we go about doing things. Designed to evolve over time, driven by circumstance and consideration, our journey remains ongoing.

As a distinctive specialist banking and asset manager group, driven by commitment to our philosophies and values, our purpose is to create sustained long-term wealth, and to finance and foster entrepreneurs. Our approach reflects our culture of continuous advancement and reaffirms our belief that Sustainability in its broadest sense is about managing and positioning the group for the long term.

Our principal Sustainability endeavours revolve around the following philosophy:

In pursuit of sustainable profits we seek to be a positive influence in all our business activities, in each of the societies in which we operate. We do this by empowering communities through entrepreneurship and education, leveraging the value in our diversity, and addressing climate change and our use of natural resources.

Our Sustainability philosophy seeks to align the interests of shareholders and stakeholders over time, and provides the individual business units and regions with a basis from which to determine their own approach.

Deliberately not driven on a top-down basis, the centre maintains responsibility for oversight, direction, coordination and integration of our Sustainability efforts while the individual business units provide the principal drivers behind our activities, in a manner that best makes sense to each.