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 2024
- We donated a total of 2.4 million euros. Donations were made through various initiatives, including the Hyviä tekoja campaign, to support children and young people. Read more.
- Our Sustainability Index is 73,8 (average on a scale from 0 to 100).
- 97,856 customers with savings and investments – our mission is to responsibly promote the financial wellbeing and prosperity of our customers.
- In our asset management activities, 90% of the funds we manage promote environmental and/or social characteristics.
- Savings Banks’ Asset Management held 61 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.
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.
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.
