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Raiffeisen Bank International | Sustainability Report 2017
GRI content index / Assurance statement Engaged citizen Fair partner Responsible banker Sustainability management Overview Foreword
Sustainability management
and corporate responsibility
Sustainability concept and strategy
Our understanding of sustainability
Sustainability has always been a fundamental principle for RBI 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 responsibility, “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 RBI 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. (Sustainability Guiding Principles, see
www.rbinternational.com/nachhaltigkeitsmanagement)