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The drastic change in climate, coupled with the raging COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, has tested the ability of global businesses to respond to shifting international circumstances and the need to make significant changes to their sustainability commitments. Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC) has established a sustainable management and service model that emphasizes stakeholder communication, has accumulated sustainable capabilities based on a number of ISO standards, and continues to promote innovation in ESG (environment, society, and corporate governance), forging a versatile corporate sustainability resilience. The British Standards Institution (BSI) today (Nov. 19) as a result awards Yuanta FHC the “2020 Sustainability Resilience Award - Pilot Award.” Yuanta FHC follows the international trend of sustainable development and uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a basis for the balanced implementation of its seventeen sustainable development goals, which has received high recognition from domestic and international benchmark institutions. Its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report has passed six consecutive years of third-party international verification. For the second year in a row, Yuanta FHC has been listed as a constituent of both the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index, ranking third worldwide in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index’s diversified financials category, standing firmly as a global benchmark enterprise. BSI is a credible international standard-setter and since 2010 has been presenting the BSI Excellence Award to organizations that have demonstrated excellence in their commitment to sustainable governance. Yuanta FHC actively fights climate change and responds to the global trends of Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) by completing climate risk identification in 2019. The Yuanta Group has implemented five ISO environmental management system standards, including water footprint inventory and sustainable procurement, and is enthusiastically putting them into practice. In 2020, Yuanta FHC, its securities and futures subsidiaries initiated the “Tamsui River Convention - Do One Thing for Tamsui River,” a beach-cleaning campaign to promote environmental sustainability. After the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, Yuanta FHC immediately provided diversified emergency care services to its customers and donated seven social welfare organizations with a total amount of more than NT$100 million to the recipients of the “Economy Revitalization Love Cards” (convenience store cash cards), benefiting over 100,000 people. At the same time, Yuanta Bank’s “Give Love, Give Warmth” donation platform has been used to increase community participation and call on the public to join in the effort to help social welfare organizations to survive the winter. Energetically responding to the Corporate Governance 3.0 Blueprint for Sustainable Development promoted by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission, Yuanta FHC will continue to improve its corporate governance structure, strengthen the functions and effectiveness of its board of directors, enhance information transparency, ensure shareholders’ interests, create a sound ESG ecosystem, boost its international competitiveness in the capital markets, and move toward the vision of an international benchmark enterprise for sustainability.

Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards 2020 (TCSA) has announced the highly transparent, quality companies with the most complete disclosure of Taiwan’s ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) information. Yuanta Financial Holding Company’s (FHC) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report fully presents the performance of the three major aspects of economy, environment, and society, and actively responds to the concerns of stakeholders, introduces ESG into corporate DNA, takes practical actions for advocacy, and therefore wins the Gold Award in the Corporate Sustainability Report Awards. Subsidiary Yuanta Funds launched the reconstruction of ESG corresponding to investment process and expanded it to the entire company’s front, middle and back office operations. The goal is to build a complete ESG Ecosystem and ESG Solutions in order to bring more stable and long-term performance to the company, investors, and shareholders and create a win-win situation for all. Yuanta Funds has thus at the same time received the “Corporate Excellent Case Model - Innovation and Growth Award.” TCSA, organized by the Taiwan Academy of Corporate Sustainability, is entering its thirteenth year. A total of 192 enterprises participated in the Chinese and English report evaluation this year. 182 experts and scholars, and 486 volunteers formed the large judging panel. The chief convener, Eugene You-hsin Chien, said that the disclosure of traditional financial information by companies has failed to meet expectations, and the current global trend is to also disclose non-financial information including ESG-oriented information. The financial and insurance industry in Taiwan is the most active among domestic industries in terms of the quality of report writing and the degree of participation in various sustainability issues, and can be called an industry leader. Yuanta FHC’s CSR Report fully demonstrates the importance the company places on its shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, community groups, and other stakeholders. With the vision of becoming an international benchmark enterprise for sustainability, Yuanta FHC has established a sustainability committee under the board of directors. The company identifies stakeholders’ concern level on issues through questionnaires and provides accurate, real-time, open, and transparent corporate information. Yuanta FHC and its subsidiaries, in compliance with the competent authorities and on the basis of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are taking early action to identify emerging risks and follow up plans and actions, such as establishing projects of Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and adopting international standards such as ISO, to reduce business opportunities that may be lost or increased operating costs due to climate change. In addition, an epidemic prevention team has been established to assist employees and customers in preventing epidemics and reducing the risk of infectious diseases, in order to move toward the goal of sustainable operation. Yuanta Funds, a subsidiary of Yuanta, is leading the domestic asset management industry in issuing Taiwan’s first ESG ETF in 2019: Yuanta Taiwan ESG Sustainability ETF (00850), creating a milestone in the development of Taiwan’s asset management industry in ESG active, passive, equity, bond, and other types of products. More importantly, Yuanta Funds publishes ESG books, conducts market and investor education, and at the same time cooperates with domestic universities and a number of international index companies to jointly participate in the collaboration of integrating ESG with University Social Responsibility (USR). By combining practice and theoretical research on ESG and other future investment trends, Yuanta Funds hopes to cultivate young financial talents and build a new model and paragon for the development of funds/investment trust in Taiwan.