Responsibility
Responsibility is one of the core values that guide the Savings Banks Group’s business operations alongside customer-drivenness, cooperation and performance.
Responsibility is an important part of the over 200-year-old savings bank ideology and our related values, as well as our history and strategy.
Examples of our sustainability performance indicators in 2023
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Net Promoter Score: The Net Promoter Score (NPS) for the Savings Banks’ customer negotiations was 84.8 |
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ASML Customer Index: The most responsible bank in Finland |
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Good Deeds: We donated over EUR 2 million to support children and young people, among others |
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In our asset management activities, over 90 per cent of the funds we manage are now classified as light green. |
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Savings Banks’ Asset Management held 111 meetings with companies |
Sustainability strategy and material sustainability themes
Our sustainability strategy aims at increasing the positive and decreasing the negative impacts on environment and society among others through our products, services, processes and partnerships.
Responsible investment
The application of responsibility principles is an important part of our investment process. Read more what responsible investments mean at the Savings Bank.
Responsible financing
Our responsible lending aims at promoting customers’ financial wellbeing by financing profitable and ethically acceptable projects that are within the customer’s ability to pay back the debt.
Social responsibility
Under social responsibility, you will find information on how we increase and develop personnel competence and how we take diversity and equality into account in our activities, and furthermore how we develop economic knowledge in society and support science and research.
Good Deeds
We want to support the well-being of Finnish communities and people. We decide where to donate together with Finns. Over the years, we have been able to witness many stories, big and small, all over Finland through our donation sites.
Environmental responsibility
Our goal is to reduce our ecological footprint and to increase positive environmental effects in our own operations and in our value chain. We seek to improve the assessment of our ecological and climate footprint and handprint, and report on them annually as part of our sustainability reporting.
Sustainability management and good governance
The Savings Bank Group systematically manages responsibility in accordance with the responsibility management model approved by the Board of the Savings Bank Association. Sustainability is part of all our operations and is integrated into all our business areas.
Success stories related to responsibility
Our success stories related to responsibility provide more insight into our concrete sustainability actions, such as the launch of energy loan. You will also find more information on the Lipper Award won by our Lyhytkorko fund and our strong EPSI Rating performance.
Reporting on sustainability
We publish annually Savings banks group’s sustainability report, in which we present sustainability related information and indicators. We also publish a biannual Sp-Fund Management’s sustainability review and a quarterly impact report of Säästöpankki Ympäristö.
