Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad

Standard Chartered Sustainability; A force for good.

Our purpose as an international bank is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity. We seek to ensure that the financial services we provide to individual, businesses and global institutions improve livelihoods and provide news economic opportunities for people in our markets.

We are committed to promoting economic and social development in the markets we serve, doing so sustainably and equitably in line with our purpose and three valued behaviours: ‘Never settle’, ‘Better together’ and ‘Do the right thing’.

Our approach to sustainability focuses on three pillars – contributing to sustainable economic growth, being a responsible company and investing in communities. Health and education are the foundation of social and economic development. We work with local partners to deliver programmes that improve people’s health and educational opportunities.

Our Goal programme has empowered more than 430,000 adolescent girls across our 20 markets with the confidence, knowledge and skills they need to be integral economic leaders in their families, communities and societies. Through a combination of sports and life skills training, In Malaysia, we have engaged over 2,800 secondary school girls after Goal was launched in August 2017.

Seeing is Believing, our flagship global programme to treat avoidable blindness and visual impairment has raised USD100million globally in 2018 through fundraising and matching by the Group.

Since 2013, Standard Chartered Foundation (SCF) sealed a partnership with the Ministry of Health to support underprivileged cataract patients in Malaysia. Close to MYR2 million was donated to-date for the purchase the intraocular lenses required for cataract surgeries for over 6,300 patients.

For more information please visit us at https://av.sc.com/my/content/docs/malaysia-sustainability-summary-2017.pdf

– A force for good – We’re committed to promoting social and economic development through our core business of banking –