Sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability is the core value of Standard Chartered Bank’s corporate culture. It is committed to shaping the Bank as a sustainable company, creating value for shareholders, providing quality services to customers, and contributing to the overall economy to become a positive force in the community. It is the concrete demonstration of the brand promise – “”Here for good””.
To materialize our brand promise through our behaviours, Standard Chartered revised our sustainability model to encompass 3 pillars: Sustainable Finance, Responsible Company, and Inclusive Communities.
Since May 2013, the Bank has collaborated with nonprofit organizations and government units to create “Standard Chartered Seeing is Believing (SiB) Visually Impaired (VI) Employment Platform” and title sponsored “Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon”, the largest charity sports event in Taiwan for years.
Starting from Q4, 2019, Standard Chartered decided to carry the legacy of SiB and launched a global charity initiative – Standard Chartered Charity Programmes – in supporting 16-35 years old less advantaged youth with visual impairment and disadvantaged female, to help them pursue their dream careers without worries and under the preconditions of justice and equality. Standard Chartered has partnered with NGO groups, namely the Parents’ Association for the Visually Impaired (PAVI) and the Garden of Hope Foundation (GOH), jointly to offer schooling relief and training courses to less advantaged youth.
We’ve supported over 700 females and visually impaired youth in 2025. From 2020-2025, we’ve supported 8,600 VI youth and women with training and coaching programmes on career development, learning, and entrepreneurship.
Key results in 2025 were as follow:
To maximise the impact of community engagement, “Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon” also invites the public, enterprises, customers and employees of the Bank to run for charity. Meanwhile, underprivileged youths are encouraged to join the race and challenge themselves.
In 2025, the Race has achieved:
WiE was launched in 2023 by partnering with The Garden of Hope Foundation. In 2025, we turned focus on micro-business which has been founded under 8 years with less than 10 employees, led or founded by female business leaders. With a total prize of TWD 2 million, we also introduced a new category accelerating economic inclusion, to promote learning and employment opportunities for women and the disadvantaged aiming to support and empower female-led entrepreneurs to grow, thrive and succeed in modern business world through upskilling workshops, mentorship, and networking. WiE was set to encourage female business leaders to pursue their dreams and achieve social inclusion without fear.
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Standard Chartered employees are entitled three days of paid volunteer leave every year, and employees can freely choose the volunteer activities they want to participate in. The company also encourages departments to assemble group strengths to participate, to further transmit and promote the Bank’s culture of caring for the society. In 2025, employees of the Bank contributed a total of 21,263 volunteer service hours with a participation rate of 66 per cent.
Eco Life project aims to promote sustainable environment by encouraging staff to access related information from participating educational events. As a result, staff to have accurate attitude and behaviour in the daily life.
The Bank launched two online challenges in 2020. One of the most significant was 35-Days Green Challenge Campaign that urged people to say no to plastic. Staff and public completed one green action every day, after 35 consecutive days, they contributed to local environment in a good way. In this event, a total of 1,236 staff completed all daily task, and successfully reduced over 50,000Kg carbon.
The second event of this meaningful project was Quiz – Save The Ocean, which addressed plastic pollution in the ocean. A series of quiz were given to staff and public. Before answering questions, they need to read articles that elaborating why and how the ocean to be polluted and say no to plastic is the only answer to save the ocean. In this event, over 500 staff and public completed the Quiz.
At Standard Chartered, we’re integrating sustainability into all our decision-making across our business, operations and communities. Our Sustainability Report shares the progress we have made in Taiwan around sustainability and also guides us in actions to take to reach net zero carbon emissions from our own operations by 2025, and from our financing by 2050.
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