Strategic Sustainability Approach
Sustainability Principles
The mission of the Development and Investment Bank of Türkiye is to support Türkiye’s structural transformation in line with its sustainable development priorities by meeting the financing and advisory needs of investors. At the same time, the Bank also aims to contribute to the broad-based distribution of capital. The Bank aims to add value to its employees and all stakeholders by acting with a dynamic, innovative, environment and community-oriented Banking approach. To this end, the Bank adopts the following principles:
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The Bank considers the direct and indirect environmental and social impacts of its operational activities and financial services.
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Environmental and social risk assessment is considered part of the routine decision-making processes of all the Bank’s investment and lending practices.
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The Bank does not support or finance investments that may have unacceptable impacts under its Environmental and Social Policy. Likewise, the negative impacts of investments financed through the Environmental and Social Management System are managed throughout the life of the loan.
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The Bank monitors the negative environmental and social impacts arising from its operational activities and adopts the goals of minimizing these impacts and increasing its positive environmental and social activities.
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Capacity building is an essential building block of sustainability activities for the Bank, providing ongoing support to staff and customers.
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The financial institution believes that collaboration with all stakeholders is essential for sustainable success and develops opportunities for cooperation.
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The Banking group regularly measures and monitors greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption resulting from its operational activities and sets targets to improve resource and energy efficiency.
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The Bank is committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and aims to provide services through practices and projects aimed at sustainable development.
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The financial company provides its personnel with a working environment that respects human rights and ensures fairness, equality, and trust. The Bank expects its customers to adopt the same approach and aims to raise awareness for this purpose.
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Within the scope of the Human Resources Regulation, the Bank aims to offer equal opportunities to people under equal conditions in recruitment and to provide fair and equal opportunities to employees by targeting a practice based on equal opportunity. At the same time, the Bank adopts a fair rewarding system that aims to increase productivity and service quality by considering strategic goals, ethical values, and the employee’s contribution to success.
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The Bank adopts a zero-tolerance policy in the fight against bribery and corruption. The Bank takes measures against all forms of corruption such as laundering proceeds of crime and financing of criminal activities. In this context, it acts within the framework of the Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy.
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The Bank provides a healthy and safe working environment for its employees within the framework of legal regulations and practices related to occupational health and safety.
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The Bank follows a fair and transparent communication policy in its dialog activities. It supports sharing information with all stakeholders by reporting its sustainability performance.
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The Bank effectively recognizes its stakeholders such as personnel, shareholders, customers, suppliers, regulatory and supervisory bodies. The Bank communicates timely and accurate information to its stakeholders through the right channels to receive their feedback and understand their needs. It creates communication channels (written, visual and social media) for this purpose.
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The financial organization adopts an effective governance model to develop, implement, manage, and monitor sustainability activities. The Bank supports and aims to continuously improve corporate sustainability management in accordance with international sustainability standards.