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With the United Nations' sustainable development goals as the blueprint, Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC) recognizes the core spirit of supporting “Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering All Women and Girls” and incorporates gender equality norms into the business strategy, striving to create a diverse, equal, and inclusive (DEI) work environment. Since 2020, we have been named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for four consecutive years, and have received perfect scores in the pillars of Anti-sexual harassment policies and Equal pay & gender pay parity, as well as an excellent score in the Inclusive culture pillar, demonstrating that Yuanta FHC’s gender-friendly workplace results have been highly affirmed internationally. The Bloomberg GEI annually identifies benchmark companies from around the world that are highly committed to gender equality and measures the extent to which companies around the world value gender equality on five GEI framework pillars, including Leadership & talent pipeline, Equal pay & gender pay parity, Inclusive culture, Anti-sexual harassment policies, and External brand. A total of 484 companies were selected this year, with members spanning 45 countries and regions and 54 industries in 11 categories, of which only 16 were selected from Taiwan. Implementing gender equality in the workplace is a symbol of corporate progress. Over fifty percent (50%) of Yuanta FHC’s employees are women. Yuanta FHC provides paid miscarriage leave, paternity pre-natal examination leave, and paternity leave that are better than the number of days required by law, and has set up warm breastfeeding rooms in office locations throughout Taiwan with more than 100 employees, and the room has been certified as an excellent breastfeeding room by Taipei City. The policies have allowed female employees to feel at ease at all stages from pregnancy, childbirth, to childcare. Yuanta FHC has responded to the values of equal rights in marriage, work-family balance, and diversity in various management systems and legal rights, and integrated gender equality into the Yuanta Group’s common training courses and carrying out of different activities. The Yuanta Group promotes Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) internally, offering free psychological counseling services to enable employees to maintain work-family balance. Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion are global trends. Yuanta FHC incorporates gender equality in the workplace into the promotion of sustainable development, from the construction of hardware and equipment to the soft power of human resources, and continues to build a friendly and healthy workplace to maintain workplace safety and healthy and sustainable productivity.

Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC) continues to promote net-zero transformation and follow the climate related financial disclosure (TCFD) framework to carry out the assessment of corporate climate change risks and opportunities, and fully implement ISO system validation to put forward various internal carbon reduction strategies with a systematic and scientific management approach. We provide a wide range of green financial services and actively negotiate with customers and suppliers. With steady and solid performance, we have made the CDP Climate Change A List for three consecutive years, and have been ranked at the Leadership Level for five years in a row, the best result in Taiwan’s financial industry. The CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), established in 2003, focuses on exposing the performance of corporate organizations in carbon management. With the accelerated global trend towards 2050 net-zero carbon emissions, CDP has paid more attention to the actual performance of enterprises on climate change issues, and extended to forests, water, biodiversity and other areas, and has been linked with many international organizations, for example: Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which is currently the most important corporate carbon management performance reference for international institutional investors. Carbon reduction is a scientific exercise in letting the numbers speak for themselves. Yuanta FHC uses the SBT methodology to control the Yuanta Group’s carbon emission targets, and performs phase reviews every five years, and refines the carbon reduction efforts. Yuanta FHC passed the SBT target review last July and is the second financial institution in Taiwan to pass the review. The pace of carbon reduction in internal operations is in line with the 2050 net-zero trend. Yuanta FHC actively responds to Taiwan’s renewable energy regulations to drive a new trend in the use of green power in Taiwan’s financial industry. Since last year (2022) in December in the second phase of renewable energy supply, including Yuanta Securities, Yuanta Bank, Yuanta Life, Yuanta Funds, and Yuanta Futures five major subsidiaries, a quarter (1/4) of Yuanta Group’s entire Taiwan business locations have gradually adopted renewable energy. The Yuanta Group’s overall green power usage will advance by ten percent (10%) this year, making us the most extensive financial player in Taiwan. Yuanta FHC has incorporated ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) concepts into the business strategy and has just been ranked number one (No. 1) in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment for the world in the group of diversified financial services and capital markets, and has been listed on both the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index for four consecutive years. Net-zero carbon transition by 2050 is a must. We set short-, medium-, and long-term goals and strategies in advance, and plan our management actions on a rolling basis every five years, in line with international trends, and to leverage our financial influence. In addition to carbon reduction in our own operations, we have been reducing carbon in the supply chain through zero-carbon credit cards, internet banking services, and the carbon labeling inventory of the Mr. Investor APP, and has also transparently presented the carbon inventory of investment and financing, and actively negotiated with customers and suppliers on various actions to reduce carbon, calling on all walks of life to attach importance to sustainable development. We will work together with the economy, society, and the environment, to continue to innovate and progress, and to implement the Yuanta Group’s strategy roadmap for sustainable development.