15 GRI Index and Assurance statement Engaged citizen Fair partner Responsible banker Human Capacity Report Sustainability management Overview Foreword Managing sustainability and corporate responsibility Sustainability concept and strategy Our understanding of sustainability Sustainability has always been a fundamental principle for the RZB Group and a measure of corporate success. For 130 years, Raiffeisen has combined financial success with socially responsible action. • We understand sustainability to mean responsible corporate activities for a long-term, economically positive result in consideration of key societal and environmental aspects. • We will continue to combine financial success with social responsibility by anchoring sustainability as a fixed component of our business and by practicing sustainability as an integral leadership and management responsibility in addition to taking key sustainability aspects into consideration in our business activities. • We therefore commit to aligning our management structures and processes with this attitude. In the three sustainability areas of “Responsible banker”, “Fair partner” and “Engaged citizen”, which are closely linked to our business activities, we endeavor to optimally apply our values and competences to fostering sustainable development both in our companies and in society. In our Sustainability Guiding Principles “We create sustainable value”, we have formulated how we pursue sustainability strategically and how we wish to live up to this ambition within our business activities. Our Sustainability Guiding Principles serve as a guide for all transactions, activities and services offered by the RZB Group or on its behalf. Our declared objective is to concentrate on those areas with significant potential for making a difference. This requires us to continuously improve the sustainability impact of our business activities and develop ways to measure and verify this impact. In doing so, we hope to increase the long-term value of our group while also actively contributing to the sustainable development of our society. (For the Sustainability Guiding Principles, see www.rbinternational.com/nachhaltigkeitsmanagement)
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