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Yuanta Financial Holding Company’s (FHC) sustainability vision is “to become an international benchmark enterprise for sustainability and actively build a better future for future generations,” emphasizing positive development in the areas of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), implementing the concept of sustainable development, and establishing a model of sustainable business management and services. Highly praised by domestic and international professional organizations, Yuanta FHC and the subsidiaries Yuanta Securities, Yuanta Bank, and Yuanta Funds won eight awards at the seventeenth Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards’ (TCSA) single performance awards, setting an example of sustainability. Yuanta FHC has long been concerned about climate change and global carbon pricing, fully utilizing the influence as a mover and shaker on sustainable finance. In response to the Paris Agreement, Yuanta FHC has taken the lead in the industry in setting an internal carbon price for the execution of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and corporate carbon management, in order to respond to net-zero carbon emissions through practical actions. As a result, Yuanta FHC received the Climate Leadership Award for the third time this year. Since its launch in 2016, the flagship event of Yuanta FHC and Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation, the “Dream Big” Yuanta Social Service Dream-Fulfilling Project (the “Dream Big Project”), has joined hands with 52 organizations to realize their dreams, with more than 7,000 times of Yuanta volunteers’ participation, and a total of over 320 service occasions. The Dream Big Project has become the most popular public welfare service platform for fulfilling dreams by multiplying the power of love with Yuanta FHC’s financial expertise, and Yuanta FHC was awarded the Social Inclusion Leadership Award. Adhering to the concept of “Talent Sustainability, Sustainable Talent,” Yuanta Securities has created a comprehensive education training and talent development blueprint through mechanisms such as recruiting and training of business competence, financial professional refinement, and performance management implementation, and has won the Talent Development Leadership Award. “Mr. Investor APP” is the first APP in Taiwan’s securities industry to pass the British Standards Institution’s (BSI) ISO 14067 carbon footprint verification, reducing carbon emissions from paper and physical services and integrating ESG stock selection indicators for customers’ reference in investment decision-making, and has been recognized with the Growth through Innovation Leadership Award. Amid corporate information security threats and routine information security shocks, Yuanta Securities, as a leading domestic securities firm, has invested resources in strengthening information security protection to safeguard the company’s information assets and customer data, and was also honored with the Information Security Leadership Award this year. Yuanta Bank continues to subvert the traditional financial operating model with high-quality products and digital experience, and has captured the Growth through Innovation Leadership Award for the first zero-carbon APP “Green Mobile Banking” service in Taiwan. The Diamond-Gold Carbon Lucky Account allows users to realize carbon reduction actions through digital finance, and to join hands with enterprises that are also environmentally conscious to create a carbon reduction ecosystem business model. Yuanta Bank hopes that through actions in the strategic goal of life transformation, it can arouse more people’s awareness of environmental protection, and looks forward to customers’ joint efforts in moving towards a new era of green finance through the Diamond-Gold Carbon Lucky Account. As a leader in the public fund asset management industry, Yuanta Funds provides “one-stop digital financial services,” personalized LINE official account services, and open online applications for ETF digital bills, effectively promoting the goal of sustainable carbon reduction. Yuanta Funds led the industry in initiating tripartite engagements in 2022, moving from domestic enterprises to overseas enterprises, and from single engagements to group engagements. Therefore, Yuanta Funds has been awarded with the Creative Communication Leadership Award and the Growth through Innovation Leadership Award for the efforts to raise the awareness and importance of investee companies to Yuanta Group’s engagement in order to form a sustainable, mutually beneficial, and symbiotic alliance, as well as to strengthen the ESG engagement multi-partner relationship. Organized in 2008, the TCSA awards, with a cumulative total of 731 companies participating in the awards up to 2023, has become a highly credible benchmark award in Taiwan’s sustainability field, and is known as the “Oscars of Sustainability.” Yuanta Group focuses on domestic and international sustainability issues, utilizes influence as a mover and shaker on sustainable finance, and leads the industry and society in the direction of sustainability from advocacy to practice, working with all stakeholders to create the value of sustainability influence and move towards the goal of international benchmark enterprise for sustainability.

In response to rapid changes in climate change and global risks, the British Standards Institution (BSI) encourages practical action to transform to net zero and implement sustainable development. The BSI recognizes companies with outstanding sustainability performance based on their level of practice every year. At the award ceremony held today (11/19), Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC) was selected from more than 3,000 companies to receive the “ESG Sustainable Development Award – Pilot Award,” marking the fifth consecutive year of winning the award. Yuanta Securities and Yuanta Funds, subsidiaries of Yuanta FHC, were honored with the “Digital Trust Excellence Award” for providing customers with safe and convenient financial services with uninterrupted operation. Yuanta FHC actively promotes Yuanta Group’s strategy roadmap for sustainable development, integrating the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and developing 52 medium- and long-term goals in the areas of environment, society and corporate governance (ESG). Yuanta FHC leads the industry in adopting the sustainability disclosure standard of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in our annual ESG (sustainability) reports, and has passed the BSI certification for ten years in a row, enhancing the transparency and credibility of sustainability information. Our 2023 Climate and Nature-Related Financial Disclosures Report has been certified at the highest level of “Level 5+: Excellence,” and Yuanta FHC is one of the first companies in the world to adopt the framework of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) to identify nature-related financial risks. As the government pushes for a net-zero transformation, “sustainable talent” is the most important foundation. Being a member of the Coalition of Movers and Shakers on Sustainable Finance, Yuanta FHC is the convener of the Empowerment and Certification Working Group, which serves as a bridge between the government and the industry, and vigorously promotes the incorporation of sustainability into the self-regulation of the financial industry. Nowadays, the financial industry is faced with complex and changing risks such as information security, geopolitics, environmental disasters, and climate change, etc. At a time when the scope of threats and challenges is expanding, Yuanta Securities has comprehensively constructed several information security risk prevention mechanisms. Yuanta Securities has acquired the certificates of ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) and ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) in 2015 and 2023, respectively, to optimize information security governance through the international standard system to cope with various potential risk events. As the leading public equity fund in Taiwan, Yuanta Funds actively implements sustainable finance through digitalization and establishes an action plan for information security and uninterrupted operation to build a security fortress for customers. Yuanta Funds has introduced ISO 27001 ISMS since 2020, which has been verified by the BSI, and certification audits are carried out every three years. Yuanta Funds likewise completed the introduction of ISO 22301 BCMS in 2023 and obtained the certificate at the same time, in order to provide stable financial services in today’s disaster-prone environment.