Sustainability Case Studies

High level strategies are important, but we are ultimately measured by our impact on individual clients, customers and the community.

 

  • More than a sponsorship with Liverpool FC

    More than a sponsorship

    We've joined forces with Liverpool FC to raise awareness for avoidable blindness.

    Why we’re a perfect match

  • Seeing is Believing

    Helping people to see

    Our Seeing is Believing initiative improves access to eye-care for millions like Jainab and Abal.

    Read Jainab and Abal's story

  • Supporting microfinance

    Supporting microfinance

    Carolyne started her business with the help of a loan from Faulu, a local microfinance institution and client of ours.

    Read Carolyne's story

Talking ATMs

Talking ATMs

Our Talking ATMs are one of the many ways we’re improving access to finance and creating a more inclusive banking experience for customers.

About our talking ATMs

More than a sponsorship

More than a sponsorship

Since the start of our sponsorship we've joined forces with Liverpool FC to raise awareness for avoidable blindness and visual impairment.

Why we're a perfect match

Changing lives through football

Changing lives through football

As the main sponsor of Liverpool FC, we‘ve teamed up with the Club to organise soccer clinics that really gives back to local communities.

How we're using education and football

Supporting malaria prevention

Supporting malaria prevention

NetsforLife, an initiative we support, has reduced the rate of malaria by 45 per cent in 5,000 communities across sub-Saharan Africa.

Using life-saving nets and education

Brokers Day 2012

Brokers Day 2012

For the last four years, our partner brokers have donated a day’s trading fees to Seeing is Believing. It's now our biggest single fundraiser.

How their donations have helped

Building efficiently and wasting less

Building efficiently and wasting less

Our new office building in Tianjin, China exemplifies environment efficiency, using less than half the water and electricity of similar buildings.

How we're building for the future

Improving financial literacy

Improving financial literacy for Asian women

We’ve helped improve financial literacy for over 7,000 women and girls across Asia, supporting their economic empowerment.

How we're helping Asian women

Supporting microfinance

Supporting microfinance in Kenya

With our help microfinance institutions can offer a wider range of products and services to a greater number of people.

Read Carolyne's story

Empowering young women

Empowering young women

Our Goal programme uses sport and financial education to empower adolescent girls. Recently, we found that it's also a great way to find talent.

Read Chayya's story

Helping farmers in Zambia

Helping farmers

With our help the government was able to buy up to 470,000 tons of maize to provide a reliable food supply in times of drought.

How we're helping farmers in Zambia

Tackling financial crime

Tackling financal crime

With our help the UK and Hong Kong authorities were able to crack down on criminal groups in 2010, arresting 20+ people in the UK.

Read about the operation

Giving back comes full circle

Giving back comes full circle

We've given internships to girls from the Starehe Girls’ Centre which is part of the Global Give Back Circle, that helps girls out of poverty.

About our interns

Reducing our carbon footprint

Encouraging staff to reduce their carbon footprint

Our Take a Brake programme aims to improve air quality in Hong Kong by encouraging a low carbon lifestyle.

How we reduced our impact

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