Fubon Financial

Fubon Group's Appreciation Party Creates Sustainable Theme and Calls for "Run For GreenTM"

In order to express gratitude to its employees for their efforts in the past year, Fubon Group held an appreciation party at the Nangang Exhibition Center today (6th), invited performing artist Bowie Tsang to host the party, and invited The Last Day of Summer 831, Julia Peng and other famous performing artists to sing enthusiastically, and enjoyed the party with 15,000 employees. In particular, Fubon Group, in order to encourage its employees to be committed to sustainability, has launched activities such as "Searching for Taiwan's Native Species" and "Call for Tree Planting" with the theme of "Run For GreenTM" to increase the number of lucky draws, and to encourage employees to go into the mountains and forests to get close to nature, actively participate in the tree planting program, upload photos of plants and tree planting, and to work together to make a difference with the Earth and increase the chances of winning the lucky draws for themselves!
Richard M. Tsai, Chairman of Fubon Financial Holdings, said in his opening speech that the global economy in 2023 has been affected by international inflation, interest rate hike, and geopolitical tension, which have caused turbulence, and that each of these factors has posed a great challenge to the financial holding industry. Fortunately, thanks to the unity and co-operation of our employees, we are still able to deliver outstanding performance, and our subsidiaries are operating steadily and achieving good results and have been ranked as the leading financial holding company in terms of profitability for the first eleven months of 2023. In April 2023, Taipei Fubon Bank and Jih Sun Bank, Fubon Securities and Jih Sun Securities, and Fubon Futures and Jih Sun Futures were successfully merged. Following the formal merger of Jih Sun Financial Holdings in 2022 and the completion of the first stage of the "merger of two financial holding companies", the merger will continue to leverage the synergies and values of the merger to provide more diversified and high-quality products and services to customers, and to realize "Fubon and Jih Sun work together for common good”.

Richard M. Tsai pointed out that Fubon Financial Holdings is committed to sustainable management and emphasizes corporate social responsibility. It has not only been selected as a constituent of the top-rated DJSI World Index for seven consecutive years, but also been selected as a constituent of the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index for eight consecutive years. Moreover, it was ranked first among the world's insurance companies in the scores of four categories, including "transparency in information disclosure, tax policy, human rights issues, and indicators of labor relations practices". The Company's ESG performance has been highly recognized. We look forward to upholding the spirit of the Three Principles of "Integrity, Diligence and Modesty" and implementing the core values of "Integrity, Sincerity, Professionalism and Innovation" to overcome the challenges in 2024 and achieve further success!

Daniel M. Tsai, Chairman of Fubon Group, also gave thanks to Fubon's employees for their contribution in the appreciation party and stressed that even though the company has gradually emerged from the impact of pandemic insurance, it is still necessary to bear in mind Chairman Wan-Tsai Tsai's teachings on risk management in order to achieve sustainable operation. He also encouraged his employees that in the financial industry, where capital is at their disposal, they should shoulder a more important role in the face of more severe climate risks and challenges. He expected the Fubon Group to achieve two major goals: to move towards a sustainable society, to promote the net-zero transformation of Taiwan, and to expand group co-operation and innovation, so as to give back to the society with positive power.

Daniel M. Tsai said that Fubon Financial Holdings and Taiwan Mobile jointly donated NT$10 million in R&D incentives to the Academia Sinica last year to encourage researchers to invest in the three major net-zero technologies of "methane pyrolysis, geothermal heat, and ocean energy", which led to the success of a team from the Academia Sinica in connecting with Taipower’s small-scale commercial generating unit to produce the first kWh of electricity from the “methane pyrolysis”, thus marking a milestone in Taiwan's development of clean energy. Fubon Group continues to expand its positive power to give back to the community. For the eighth consecutive year, the Fubon Charity Foundation has donated NT$13 million to the Genesis Social Welfare Foundation in the hope of adding warmth to the upcoming year of the Dragon, and helping poor people and PVS to have a good year.

In order to encourage employees to pay attention to Taiwan's ecological environment and echo the "Run For GreenTM" initiative proposed by Fubon Financial Holdings in 2021, the Group's appreciation partly was kicked off by two chairmen holding LED saplings, which symbolized Fubon's positive power and passed it step by step to the eight counties and cities that cooperated in the "Run For GreenTM" project to move towards the goal of planting 100,000 trees within five years.

At the same time, the Fubon Group's appreciation party encourages employees to show their talents, plans for them to perform dynamic songs and dances, builds a high-standard performance stage and decorates the scene with various natural atmospheres to create a sustainable party exclusively for Fubon people, coupled with the carnival-like performances by performing artists, which made more than 10,000 Fubon employees thrilled at the Nangang Exhibition Center.

In 2023, Fubon Group’s appreciation party was divided into two events in Taipei and Kaohsiung. In addition to the Taipei event on the 6th, the Kaohsiung event was held at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center on the 27th. The total number of participants was about 18,600 employees, and the total lottery prize was more than NT$16 million, with a total chance of winning about 52%. We hope to give out red packets in advance on the eve of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, in order to comfort Fubon's employees who have been working hard for the whole year!