ETHICAL MANAGEMENT
Fubon Financial Holdings has established several rules and guidelines to establish a corporate culture founded on ethical management and create a sustainable operating environment. These rules and guidelines apply to the financial holding company and its subsidiaries, and their establishment and revision must be reviewed and approved by the board of directors.
Each unit of the Company identifies risks based on its business and risk characteristics and has set up an assessment mechanism involving self-assessments and key performance indicators related to the implementation of operational risk controls. Self-assessments of the implementation of controls and the monitoring of key performance indicators are done on a regular basis. Through the assessment and monitoring of business activities that are at relatively high-risk of unethical behavior, the Company can check for existing or potential unethical behavior and adopt corrective measures as necessary. In 2024, the risks were controllable. Overall, in 2024, all 30 of the department- and division-level units in the Company’s administrative offices conducted risk assessments for unethical behavior patterns (such as bribery) and did not find any material risks related to unethical behavior.
Whistleblowing Policy
Fubon Financial Holdings has established a “Whistleblowing Policy” that designates compliance units as being responsible for handling whistleblower cases and clearly lays out investigation procedures, investigation units, and the composition of an Investigation Committee. It states that anybody who discovers that a responsible person or employee of Fubon Financial Holdings or any of its subsidiaries or sub-subsidiaries may have committed a crime, engaged in fraud, or broken the law can report the behavior to Fubon through tip-off channels posted on the Company’s website.