Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank ( HDBank , stock code: HDB) has just made another strong mark on its journey of green and sustainable development with the grand award: "Best Green Financing in Vietnam", presented by The Asian Banker Vietnam Excellence Awards.
HDBank Leadership Representative receives award from The Asian Banker
The Asian Banker Vietnam Excellence Awards 2024 is one of the most prestigious and rigorous awards programs in the field of finance and banking in Asia. This program recognizes outstanding achievements and innovations in the fields of retail finance, green finance, technology and banking services associated with sustainable development goals. As a category in The Asian Banker Awards program system, with the top criteria for evaluation and selection being sustainable finance initiatives, the "Best Green Financing in Vietnam" award was presented to HDBank by The Asian Banker - a globally prestigious organization, recognizing the Bank's efforts and comprehensive development achievements in recent times, especially in the goal of sustainable development with stakeholders. In Vietnam, since 2015, HDBank has been one of the first commercial banks to deploy an environmental and social risk assessment system in credit granting; pioneering in promoting green credit with hundreds of millions of USD in recent years for renewable energy projects, organic agricultural projects in the Mekong Delta, green transformation and environmentally friendly projects across the country. HDBank is also the first bank in Vietnam to pioneer in issuing a Sustainable Development Report in 2024; the first bank in Vietnam to establish an ESG Committee (on Environment, Society and Governance) under the Board of Directors to directly lead and supervise the implementation of sustainable development goals and initiatives. According to the representative of HDBank's leadership, the "Best Green Financing in Vietnam" award continues to affirm HDBank's correct vision in the goal of developing a leading commercial bank in Vietnam and reaching out to international integration, associating sustainable development responsibility with the community and society. In particular, green finance is the focus of HDBank's promotion, in addition to its strengths in developing financial solutions and products for the agricultural and rural areas, SMEs, retail chain financing and consumer finance. Along with The Asian Banker, in recent years, many prestigious international organizations have highly appreciated and recognized HDBank's efforts and achievements in sustainable development, such as the "Green Deal Award" in the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Global Trade Finance Program in 2019; The Asset Triple A Awards - Best bank for sustainable finance from The Asset in 2022; "Bank with the most sustainable development activities in 2023" award (Sustainability initiative of the year) from The Asian Banking and Finance (ABF)... Source: https://baochinhphu.vn/hdbank-ngan-hang-duy-nhat-tai-viet-nam-nhan-giai-thuong-xanh-tu-the-asian-banker-102240813184405524.htm
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