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Kasikorn Bank - Thailand  key facts
headquarters
1 Soi. Kasikornthai Ratburana Rd.10140 Bangkok Thailand total assets
US$ 35.8 billion (March 2009) key regions of operation
Southeast Asia and China. Branches in USA and the Cayman Islands. supervisor
Bank of Thailand CEO/chair
Mr. Banthoon Lamsam CEO number of employees
13,560 ownership
Publicly traded company about Kasikorn Bank
Kasikorn Bank, otherwise known as the Thai Farmers Bank, is the fourth largest bank in Thailand. Amongst Thailand’s commercial banks, Kasikorn Bank is a market-leader in Corporate Governance and CSR, reflected by the number of industry awards it receives. voluntary standards and commitments
Carbon Disclosure Project
The CDP impels organisations to record their carbon footprint in daily activities. Encouraging enterprises to calculate and disclose their carbon impact, this initiative highlights the challenge for financial institutions to determine exactly how much carbon output can be attributed to financing.
Carbon Principles
Set of guidelines for banks and their U.S. power clients to evaluate and address carbon risks in the financing of electric power projects.
Climate Principles
Voluntary framework to guide the finance sector in tackling the challenge of climate change. They address the management of operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and provide direction on managing climate change in research activities; asset management; retail banking; insurance & re-insurance; corporate banking; investment banking & markets; project finance.
Equator Principles
The EPs are a set of guidelines, based upon the Performance Standards and guidelines from the IFC, the World Bank's private sector lending arm for private banks to asesses and mitigate risks in project finance. Banks use the Principles to guide internal operating procedures for transaction for specific projects. Although the EPs are an important step to raise overall standards of financiers and projects in the developing world, they currently fall short on transparency and governance requirements.
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The verification and full publication of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas and mining is supported by the EITI. Financial institutions can participate and encourage resource-rich countries to support the initiative that aims to defeat poverty, corruption and conflict caused by weak transparency and accountability.
Global Reporting Initiative
As the name suggests, the GRI aims to standardise good practice in transparency. GRI provides companies with guidelines to organise their annual report with reporting indices and standards addressing environmental, social and economic issues that business ought to address when telling the world about its performance.
UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is a set of ten principles that companies may sign voluntarily. Signatories promise to avoid complicity in human rights violations, adhere to labour standards, protect the environment and avoid corruption. The G8 countries urge companies to participate in this initiative, and with over 2900 companies signing up, the Global Compact has momentum. A voluntary and network based framework, the Global Compact actively promotes peer review and stakeholder participation.
UNEP Finance Initiative
UNEP is the 'voice of the environment' for the United Nations system, promoting international cooperation in the field of the environment. Issues concerning the financial community are addressed by the UNEP Finance Initiative which promotes investment in clean and renewable energy by financial institutions and other investors. Financial insititutions wishing to join must sign one of two Statements (for financial institutions and a separate one for the insurance industry).
UNEP Principles for Responsible Investments
UNPRI is a set of six principles direct institutional investors may adopt to consider environmental, social and corporate governance issues when investing. Voluntary and aspirational in nature, UNPRI has since its inception in 2006 attracted 200 signatories, representing US$8 trillion worth of investments.
Wolfsberg principles
Since the turn of the century a group of twelve banks known as the Wolfsberg Group have collaborated to improve ethical standards. The principles provide guidance on money laundering, corruption and the financing of terrorism. They have been produced to address deficiencies in areas 'yet to be fully articulated by lawmakers or regulators'.
Kasikorn Bank has also developed additional sustainability policies. You can find them below, or under 'documents' in the menu. sustainability policies of Kasikorn Bank
2010 sector and issue policies
General Banktrack reaction on policies Kasikorn Bank Kasikorn's CSR Policy is reflected at pages 199-243 on Corporate Governance of its Annual Report 2008, but describes only operational business activities. Except "The Bank shall refrain from granting credit support to any projects that violate the environmental laws of the country", no criteria for investments are included. As Kasikorn Bank has not disclosed any detailed investment policies no points are accredited.
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