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About
Website https://www.fubon.com/financialholdings/en/home/index.html
Headquarters
No 237, Section 1 - Jianquo South Road 106
Taipei City
Taiwan, Republic of China
CEO/chair Jerry Harn
President
Supervisor
Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Ownership
listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange

Fubon Financial Holding's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.
Subsidiaries
Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank – Taiwan, Republic of China

Fubon Financial Holding (Fubon FHC) was founded in 1961 and is based in Taipei City, Taiwan. The company mainly operates through five business segments: banking, property and casualty insurance, life insurance, securities, and others and has nine subsidiaries. Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank (TFB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fubon FHC, adopted the Equator Principles in December 2017.

Sustainability
Policies
Voluntary standards

Fubon FHC's web page on corporate social responsibility can be accessed here.

Sustainable Development Best Practice Principles

Bank policy
2022-07-29 00:00:00 | Fubon Financial Holding

Sustainability risk management

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-12-18 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Human rights policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-12-18 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Group Policy for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism

Bank policy
2019-03-22 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Ethical management initiatives

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-02-11 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Code of ethical conduct

Bank policy
2017-11-28 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Corporate social responsibility best practice principles

Bank policy
2015-04-28 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC
Fubon Financial Holding has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Dow Jones Sustainability IndicesTags: sustainable development | transparency
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
FTSE4Good Supply Chain Labour Standards CriteriaTags: corporate social responsibility | labour | supply chain | worker rights
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)Tags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development | United Nations
Science Based TargetsTags: climate change | corporate social responsibility
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
Dodgy Deals

Fubon Financial Holding is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of Fubon Financial Holding's link to these deals.

Projects / Companies
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Year
Campaigns

Banks and Nature

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Fubon Financial Holdings
2022-09-21
TWN
1.7
Follower
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its policies. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Beef

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Fubon Financial Holdings
2022-09-21
TWN
0
Laggard
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its beef policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Palm Oil

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Fubon Financial Holdings
2022-09-21
TWN
1.7
Follower
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its palm oil policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.
News
Resources
Documents
Links

Sustainable Development Best Practice Principles

Bank policy
2022-07-29 00:00:00 | Fubon Financial Holding

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-07-12 00:00:00 | Fubon Financial Holding

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-06-07 00:00:00 | Fubon Financial Holding

CSR Report 2020

Annual report
2021-05-02 00:00:00 | Fubon Financial Holding

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-07-01 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-07-01 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Sustainability risk management

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-12-18 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Human rights policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-12-18 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Increasing Energy Management Performance 2018

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank document
2019-12-18 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

CSR report 2018

Annual report
2019-08-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Annual report 2018

Annual report
2019-06-24 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Group Policy for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism

Bank policy
2019-03-22 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Ethical management initiatives

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2019-02-11 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Corporate governance and sustainability committee charter

Bank document
2019-01-28 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Responsible investment actions

Bank document
2018-12-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Annual report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

CSR report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Code of ethical conduct

Bank policy
2017-11-28 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

CSR report 2016

Annual report
2016-12-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Annual report 2016

Annual report
2016-12-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Annual report 2015

Annual report
2016-07-01 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

CSR report 2015

Annual report
2015-12-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

Corporate social responsibility best practice principles

Bank policy
2015-04-28 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC

CSR report 2014

Annual report
2014-12-31 00:00:00 | Fubon FHC
Accountability
Grievances

Fubon operates a Stakeholder Communication channel which can be accessed here.

This page evaluates Fubon Financial Holding's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

Impacts reviewed
Responded?
Total score
Response
Action
Monitoring

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