Hana Financial Group recently announced ¡°Connected Finance for All,¡± a new vision for ¡°NEXT 2030¡±, at its headquarters in Seoul, and ¡°O.N.E. Value 2030,¡± a mid- to long-term strategic goal to achieve the new vision in the middle of June.
The event was attended by employees of the group¡¯s domestic and foreign affiliates online and offline, and was live-streamed to branches nationwide through YouTube.
¡°Connected Finance for All¡± means providing various services other than simple financial services that everyone can enjoy by linking time, space, the future, and value in a unique Hana way. It has three directions for trust, innovation and platforms. Also, ¡®O.N.E.¡± emphasizes the goal of transforming into a value-oriented financial group through ¡°O.N.E. Value 2030.¡±
¡°¡®Connected Finance for All¡¯ will give everyone special experiences in their daily lives and connect a new world that everyone needs to a prosperous future going beyond finance,¡± Hana Chairman Ham Young-joo said on the day.
¡°Let¡¯s focus on the group's capabilities on realizing our vision so that everyone can enjoy finance and create new value based on trust through Hana Financial Group¡¯s unique innovative platform."
The unique Hana way means pursuing trust in realizing accurate finance based on a customer-centered business philosophy.
¡°Linking time, space, future and value¡± represents a determination to create a prosperous future, not only by providing finance needed by anyone, anywhere and anytime, but by turning various ideas into optimal solutions by implementing an advanced financial platform.
¡°Finance that everyone will enjoy¡± shows that Hana Financial Group will take the lead in providing financial and non-financial services that customers, shareholders, and society all need, and realizing ESG management and social values for everyone to ensure that everyone will be able to grow together.
Hana¡¯s new mid-to long-term strategic goal, ¡°O.N.E. Value 2030¡±, refers to Our Value (Customer Value), New Value (Social Value) and Extra Value (Innovation Value). For the purpose of attaining the goal, Hana Financial Group will pursue a value-oriented growth strategy.
¡°Our Value¡± represents Hana Financial Group¡¯s will to become the most customer-oriented financial group by connecting everything which customers need.
¡°New Value¡± represents its commitment to growing into a respected financial group through ESG management that pursues people¡¯s happiness in society.
¡°Extra Value¡± contains the financial group¡¯s determination to become an innovative financial group that creates better value by securing capabilities for the future.
In the meantime, Hana Financial Group announced on May 16 that it had joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a coalition of UN-affiliated financial companies promoting carbon neutrality, along with a declaration of support for the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) of the United Nations (UN).
The Women¡¯s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of principles offering guidance to business on how to promote gender equality and women¡¯s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community.
Established by UN Global Compact and UN Women, the WEPs are informed by international labor and human rights standards and grounded in the recognition that businesses have a stake in and a responsibility for gender equality and women¡¯s empowerment.
With the declaration of the support for women as an opportunity, Hana Financial Group will further strengthen its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management at the group level such as customized education for nurturing talented female workers and spreading a culture of gender equality through the recruitment of female talent.
In addition, Hana Financial Group will readjust its carbon emission targets for business sites in accordance with the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) standard and disclose a carbon emission target for its asset portfolio this year by joining the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
¡°With this declaration of support for WEPs, we will do our best to provide systemic support, such as creating a corporate culture to establish a practical gender equality culture and expanding women's empowerment programs,¡± said an official of Hana Financial Group.