OCB is in the Top sustainable businesses in 2024

With the goal of becoming a pioneer Green bank in Vietnam and persistently pursuing a sustainable development strategy from a very early age, Orient Commercial Bank (OCB) has received high appreciation and recognition from many prestigious organizations. Recently, OCB continued to be honored in the Top 100 Sustainable Enterprises in Vietnam (CSI 100) in 2024.

The program to evaluate and announce sustainable enterprises in Vietnam 2024 (CSI 2024) aims to honor enterprises that have performed well in sustainable production and business activities in all aspects: economic efficiency - corporate governance - society - environment. This year, nearly 500 enterprises registered and submitted documents for review, through which the Organizing Committee has preliminarily screened and selected 142 documents for official evaluation. Overcoming many strict evaluation criteria, OCB was honored to be in the Top 100 Sustainable Enterprises in Vietnam.

OCB honored in the top 100 sustainable enterprises in Vietnam 2024

This is the 9th year the program has been implemented by VCCI under the direction of the Government, in coordination with the Central Economic Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. With a tightly organized and scientific assessment and appraisal process in 3 main stages including: preliminary scoring of documents according to the CSI index set; appraisal through competent agencies; the steering committee approves the proposal of the assessment council. It is known that the CSI 2024 index set is structured in 6 parts, including 153 indicators. Of which, 62% are compliance indicators, 38% are advanced indicators, aiming to evaluate enterprises in comprehensive aspects: economic efficiency - corporate governance - society - environment. Each indicator is used to declare a specific content. Every year, the CSI index will update content reflecting important legal changes that Vietnamese businesses need to pay attention to, or new international trends.

Standing out among the group of credit institutions, OCB has implemented a sustainable development strategy aiming to become a pioneer Green Bank in Vietnam for many years. With stable and effective operations, OCB has continuously received capital funding packages from many international financial institutions such as IFC, DEG... to support small and medium enterprises, female-owned enterprises, prioritizing environmentally friendly and protective fields.

By 2024, OCB has made great strides in its sustainable development activities. Specifically, in April 2024, it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with IFC on consulting on green banking transformation and digital banking services for retail and SME businesses. By September 2024, it pioneered the publication of an independent sustainability report. In addition, there are a series of specific results in implementing items related to the three pillars of environment, society and governance.

"As a bank operating according to transparent, stable and sustainable values. In addition to promoting business, we also pay special attention to implementing a sustainable strategy, thereby not only increasing economic value, but also protecting the environment and creating a better society. With careful and methodical preparation from many years ago, along with drastic implementation actions towards building a pioneering Green bank in Vietnam, today we are very honored to continue to be honored in the top leading enterprises in Vietnam in sustainable development, this is a source of pride and also a testament to the bank's efforts in its operations, affirming its efficiency, safety and transparency in the past time". Mr. Nguyen Ba Ngoc, Director of Large Corporate Banking & Investment Banking Services OCB shared at the event.

It is known that recently, OCB was also the only bank in the system to receive the 2024 sustainable development report award at the Listed Enterprises Conference. OCB is highly appreciated for its reporting and information disclosure work, not only implementing regulations and good practices on governance and ESG practices but also promoting businesses towards advanced and transparent governance standards.

In the coming time, OCB will continue to promote and develop digital products; Build criteria for green businesses, support and advise businesses and customers to meet the requirements to receive preferential capital funding packages; Diversify products, optimize experiences. In particular, exploit and provide modern financial products for the customer ecosystem, thereby increasing the scale of green credit, saving resources and energy, reducing emissions, building a safe and happy working environment... demonstrating the bank's strong commitment to the greening journey, accompanying the Government for the Net Zero goal by 2050.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ocb-lot-top-cac-doanh-nghiep-ben-vung-nam-2024-185241201190635321.htm