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Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC), as a green pioneer in the face of climate change, actively responds to the international trend of carbon reduction and sets a net-zero emissions target for 2050, promotes internal carbon reduction strategy through systematic and scientific management, and provides multifaceted green financial commodity services. Yuanta FHC thus has been recognized for the green competitiveness by the judges of the Business Weekly Group’s “Carbon Competitiveness 100” 2024 survey, in which Yuanta FHC participated for the first time this year. The Carbon Competitiveness 100 is organized by the Business Weekly Group and the Climate Change Risk Assessment for Business Research Team of National Taiwan University’s Risk Society and Policy Research Center from 2022 onwards. Combined with public information and questionnaire evaluation, it is the only indicator survey in Taiwan that links “carbon” to the operational performance of enterprises, and provides insights into how enterprises can turn their carbon reduction actions into corporate competitiveness. Yuanta FHC has introduced ISO management system to control the environment with outstanding performance. In 2018, the domestic business locations obtained ISO14064-1 greenhouse gas inventory certification, and in 2022, Yuanta FHC became the first diversified financial services provider to pass the carbon reduction target of the Science Based Targets. Through carbon reduction actions such as intelligent energy monitoring and control, procurement of renewable energy, and replacement of energy-consuming equipment, Yuanta FHC’s carbon emissions in 2023 were reduced by 22% compared to 2020, significantly exceeding the original target of 12.6%. As a member of the Movers and Shakers on Sustainable Finance, Yuanta FHC has joined hands with stakeholders to invest in climate solutions through a wide range of products and services. Yuanta Securities, a subsidiary of Yuanta FHC, completed carbon footprint verification for its online investment and wealth management services. Yuanta Bank’s full range of credit cards carried out carbon neutrality test, promoting sustainability-linked loans and encouraging enterprises to utilize their capital for green purposes. Yuanta FHC has also extended the spirit of sustainability to the supply chain by prioritizing the procurement of environmentally friendly, energy-saving, and carbon-reducing products, and has been affirmed by Taiwan’s Ministry of the Environment for thirteen consecutive years for excellent performance in green procurement. Yuanta FHC also uses a service-oriented business model of renting instead of buying to rent business machines and implement a circular economy. Furthermore, Yuanta FHC has been honored with the Silver Award of the National Enterprise Environmental Protection Award for three times this year, and has also been selected as one of the Financial Times’ 2024 Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders. With the original intention of “promoting a better future for future generations,” Yuanta FHC has taken action to fulfill this cross-generational commitment by being selected as a constituent of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index for five years in a row, and by actively engaging with customers and suppliers to embark on a path of carbon reduction, demonstrating the financial industry’s impact on the community and the environment, and together creating a sustainable home.

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.