Esteemed Stakeholders of Halkbank,

 

Sustainability management emerges as a body of management practices whose significance increases day by day. As Halkbank, we bolster the importance we attach to sustainability with our management practices.

 

As the Sustainability Committee, we are coordinating our Bank's practices regarding sustainability. Our committee closely follows the developments in the field of sustainability and manages related studies in this direction. While performing all these operations, Halkbank Sustainability Policy stands as our greatest guide.

As a result of the evaluations regarding sustainability practices and performance results, Halkbank ranked among the companies of Borsa Istanbul entering BIST Sustainability Index in the period of November 2017-October 2018.

One of the main objectives of our committee is to make the necessary evaluations in order to reduce the negative impact of our bank’s operations and to work with the related units. In the periodical meetings held during the year, the related processes are actively monitored and their future requisites are determined, and the proper infrastructure for the bank is prepared in relation to the situations with or without legal obligations. In this regard, efficiency studies and projects conducted during the reporting period resulted in 3% reduction in paper consumption and 6% reduction in water consumption compared to the previous reporting period. The related studies will be continued incessantly in the forthcoming periods.

As Halkbank, we engage in necessary activities with the awareness of maintaining our corporate sustainability performance at the top level in order to achieve leading practices. In line with this, we coordinate our internal regulations. The Sustainability Coordination Group and a full-time departmental directorate, which are established to execute decisions that we take as the Sustainability Committee, to control and follow up on the work done and to report new developments in the field of sustainability, are other important elements of the Bank’s active management of sustainability practices.

As Halkbank Sustainability Committee, we will continue to work incessantly for a sustainable future and to provide support for our Bank's pioneering practices to the best of our ability.

 

"For the world to be livable, for life to be sustainable..."

 

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE

Yahya Bayraktar

Chairman of the Sustainability Committee