• Profile
  • TSKB in Brief
  • TSKB's Subsidiaries
  • Products and Services Of TSKB
• Performance
  • Value Creation
  • Awards & Recognitions
  • CEO's Assessment
• Approach
  • TSKB's Sustainable Banking Strategy
  • TSKB's Sustainability Priorities
• Dialogue
  • TSKB and Stakeholder Engagement
  • TSKB's Stakeholders
  • 2010 Stakeholder Dialogue Highlights
• Sustainability and Environmental Issues
  • Sustainable Banking at TSKB
  • Sustainable Banking Performance: the Economic Dimension
  • The Renewable Energy Sector and TSKB
  • TSKB Energy Index
  • TSKB, Climate Change, and the Environment
  • TSKB's Efforts on Behalf of Sustainability and the Environment
  • Who Wouldn't Want to Be Sustainable?
  • ISO 14001 Certification
  • The Structure of the TSKB Environmental Management Team
  • TSKB's Environment Policy
  • TSKB's Environmental Impact
  • Sustainable Banking Performance: the Environmental Dimension
  • Developments in External Environmental Impact
• Corporate Governance
  • Absolute Compliance With Laws and Regulations
  • TSKB's Corporate Governance Structure
  • Compliance With Corporate Governance Principles
  • Risk Management at TSKB
  • Prevention of Money-Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism
  • Relations with Suppliers
• People
  • Human Resources and the Workplace at TSKB
  • The TSKB Performance Management System
  • TSKB Compensation and Reward System
  • TSKB Human Resources Structure
  • Human Rights and Employee Rights at TSKB
  • Competency Development and Training
  • Health and Safety at TSKB
  • Commuting By Sea
  • Internal Communication at TSKB
• The Community
  • Social Responsibility at TSKB
  • "Environment: Our Priority": Past and present
  • The NGOs that TSKB Collaborates with
• Summarized TSKB Goals and Performance
• Appendices
  • About This Report
  • Statement GRI Application Level Check
  • Global Reporting Initiative Cross Index
  • Online Sustainability
  • Imprint
  • Communication and Service Channels

TSKB’S SUSTAINABILITY PRIORITIES

In their main outline, TSKB defines its sustainability priorities as:

• Environmental and sustainable banking,
• Corporate governance and compliance,
• Social contribution.

TSKB formulates its sustainable banking strategies in accordance with the following objectives through which the Bank will:

• Support Turkey’s sustainable development model,
• Play a role in efforts to combat climate change,
• Contribute towards the transition to a low-carbon economy in Turkey.

Climate change, the environment, and sustainable banking
Recognizing climate change as one of the biggest threats confronting our world, TSKB contributes towards reducing the impact of climate change as the leading bank financing investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and environmental protection in Turkey.

TSKB shapes its products and services in light of the criteria of sustainable banking. It conducts its lending activities by giving priority to financing investments that will make a direct contribution towards efforts to combat climate change. In line with this, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and environment-related investments are foremost among the sectors on which TSKB focuses when making its credit placement decisions.

TSKB also takes part in initiatives in order to systematically reduce both direct and indirect environmental impact and it engages in a wide range of efforts to accomplish this.

Access to international financial resources: TSKB finds it easy to gain access to international financial resources. The ability to obtain medium- and long-term resources at the most favorable costs possible represents one of the most fundamental elements of its sustainable banking strategy.

TSKB supports the journey towards sustainable development by adhering to a sustainable banking strategy in which it makes the financial resources that it secures available for private sector investment.

Social contribution: In the conduct of all of its activities, TSKB is always mindful of human resources, public benefit, and social responsibility.

Being an employer that people continuously prefer and are happy to work for is one of the most important social criteria that TSKB is mindful of. TSKB contributes directly and indirectly to the economic environment and society in which it operates through its products and services as well as through the employment that is created by the projects whose financing it supports. TSKB strives to also mitigate any adverse social impact that may arise because of the projects that it finances.

Solutions that best suit Turkey’s needs: Having supported investments undertaken by the private sector in Turkey for sixty-one years, TSKB also takes pride along with its stakeholders it having played a role in helping Turkish industry achieve its present-day level.

Turkey has been exhibiting one of the world’s strongest economic performances and TSKB is focused on supplying solutions that are the most compatible with the national economy’s sustainable development. The experience, know-how, and competencies which the Bank has built up enable it to develop and offer its corporate and commercial customers high added-value products and services that are competitively priced.

TSKB business relationships: TSKB’s business relationships are informed by the principles of full compliance with laws and regulations; by dealings with customers that are substantive, courteous, and uninterrupted; by an absolute commitment to ethical values; by the well-being and happiness of employees; and by environmental and social awareness and a sense of social responsibility.

Responsible marketing and financing: In the conduct of all of its marketing and financing activities, TSKB remains bound by the ethical principles of banking in the fulfillment of its responsibilities towards its customers. Whenever handling its customers’ business, the Bank remains uncompromisingly mindful of its duties of full legal compliance and transparency and it seeks to achieve an optimal balance between its own interests and those of its customers.

Striving to deliver the highest quality in customer service, TSKB recognizes that customer satisfaction is an indispensable element of sustainability.

TSKB Environment Management System and ISO 14001: The essential nature of environmental awareness and responsibility as an indispensable element of banking is something that TSKB began acknowledging in the 1980s. The Bank began systematically reorganizing the structure of its environmental approach to make it compatible with international standards in 2005 and launched its environment management system in 2006.

Environmental awareness and a high degree of sensitivity for environmental issues will remain foremost among the business principles by which TSKB always abides.