Corporate Social Responsibility

Employees

“Only a satisfied and loyal employee provides first class services to the clients”

The basic strategy of Komerční banka is to establish a long-term professional relationship with its employees and clients, based on open and reciprocal communication. Our aim is to facilitate continuous professional development for all employees, implemented in accordance with their wishes and personal qualifications.

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Charity

“We are part of society.”

Charity projects constitute an integral part of the activities of KB. Via the KB’s Jistota Foundation, Komerční banka and its employees contribute towards a wide range of charity projects. The foundation helps there, where the money is most needed:

• Development of civic society
• Education
• Health care and social projects
• Environmental protection projects

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Sponsoring

“We support…strong ideas.”

The basic values of Komerční banka and the Société Générale Group are professionalism, innovation and team spirit. We naturally also look for these values in the numerous cultural and social events that we support.

We focus on supporting activities of society-wide importance and reach, which are appropriately supplemented by smaller projects focused above all on youth.

The sponsoring activities of Komerční banka also include support and development of non-professional sport.

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Sustainable development

“We think about the future.”

We introduce new processes and technologies, which are more environmentally friendly.

We look for ways to reduce consumption of paper and energy.

We try to increase awareness of all stakeholders (especially KB employees and out clients) about the importance of this topic.

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On a global scale…

KB is part of the international Société Générale Group, which has undertaken to protect the environment, human and social and social rights in all aspects of its activities, at every stage of its development.

The strategy of Société Générale is to create permanent values for the shareholders, clients and employees. This is why CSR has become an inherent part of the activities of Société Générale.

In its CSR efforts, Société Générale Group always takes into consideration the specific geographical, cultural, social and economic aspects of the country in which it is active.

Important milestones

• 2000 – SC is the founding member of the Wolfsberg Group; the organisation associates companies, which share their best practice in order to prevent money laundering in the fight against corruption and against the financing of terrorism
• 2001 – signing of the declaration by financial institutions on the environment and sustainable development – UNEP organisation (United Nations Environment Programme)
• 2003 – accession of the SG Group to the Global Compact initiated by the United Nations; the compact represents a voluntary commitment in the form of ten universal principles from the field of human rights, employee rights, the environment and the fight against corruption
• 2006 – adoption of the Principles of responsible investment
• 2007 – support for the Carbon Disclosure Project; the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) was commenced in 2000; it associates more than 315 global investors; its aim is to support development of common methodologies for measuring emissions of greenhouse gasses and to facilitate their integration into joint methodology for financial investment
• 2007 – adoption of the Equator Principles; this initiative was created in 2003 and was created in cooperation with the World Bank; the principles determine common environmental and social standards for the financial sector and project financing

All information can be found on the Société Générale website.