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Awards and rankings
HSBC has been widely awarded across its corporate sustainability programmes over the years. Some key and recent ones are:
- HSBC has been awarded U Green Awards 2009 in the banking and financial institution category organised by the U Magazine, recognising the Bank's outstanding environmental performance and contributions to the local community.
- HSBC has been awarded 2007/2008 Green Enterprise of the Year: Grand Award of the "One Factory-One Year-One Environmental Project" Programme (One-One-One Programme) organised by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. More
- HSBC in Hong Kong has been awarded the first Gold Award under the Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence scheme for our all-round outstanding environmental performance in the financial sector from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. More
- Environmental Performance Award 2006 under the Hong Kong Awards for Industries in Environmental Performance category organised by Trade and Industry Department and Business Environment Council.
- Won Caring Corporation Award in the large-scale public appraisal programme "Influencing China" initiated by Wen Wei Po recognising HSBC contribution to the growth and prosperity of the country in the past 60 years.
- Awarded Community Chest's Top Donor for the tenth consecutive year having contributed about HK$10.06 million in the 2008/09 campaign year.
- Won the Top Donor Award for the Community Chest Dress Special Day for the 17th consecutive year having contributed more than HK$1.34 million in 2009.
- Next Brand Awards 2008 - The Charitable Organisation Award organised by Next Magazine, recognising the importance of charity work to a company's brand excellence.
- Outstanding Partnership Award 2007/08 under the Caring Company Scheme from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service for our partnership with the Hong Kong Family Welfare Association in the 'Loving Bridge' programme, providing skills-based social education for ethic minorities.
- The Heart of Gold Awards 2007 jointly organised by Ming Pao Weekly, the Better Hongkong Foundation and the Peace and Development Foundation in recognition of the Bank's commitment to and its leading role in corporate sustainability, especially in areas of education, environment and community welfare. HSBC is the first financial services organisation to win this accolade in the Award's two-year history.
- Since 1998, HSBC has won the Champion of the Highest Service Hour Award organised by Social Welfare Department for the seventh time.
- Outstanding Partnership Project Award 2005/06 under the Caring Company Scheme from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service for our partnership with Hong Chi Association in the Community Education Institute project.
- Awarded the Outstanding Strategic Conservation Partners Award and the Double Diamond Member Award by WWF Hong Kong for its longstanding support to WWF's conservation projects.
- Caring Company Award for seven consecutive years since 2002. In 2004/05 Total Caring Award organised by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service for its continual, sustainable and strong commitment to promote the well-being of employees, their families and the community.
- Outstanding Partnership Project Award 2004/05 under the Caring Company Scheme from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service for our partnership with Junior Achievement Hong Kong in the Company Programme Project.
- Best Place to Work @ HSBC Insurance awarded Safety Enhancement Programme Silver Award at 7th Hong Kong Occupational Safety & Health Award 2008
- Best Company for Women in the Women of Influence Awards, jointly organised by the American Chamber of Commerce and the South China Morning Post. HSBC is the first financial services organisation to win this accolade in the Award's four-year history. More
- Best Practice Award in Training and People Development 2006 and 2007 organised by the Best Practice Management Group.
- Excellence in Training - Individual Awards (four trainers awarded in 2006 and five in 2007) organised by Hong Kong Management Association.
- Award for Excellence in Practice - Workplace Learning and Performance 2005 and 2007 organised by The American Society of Training and Development.
- Won global Gold Quill Merit Award 2006 for its outstanding achievements in raising employees' awareness of the importance of corporate sustainability in our business and the community.
- Named Company of the Year and received Best-in-Class Awards for Corporate Citizenship and Effective Training, as well as six Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Best Practice Financial Services Awards 2009 organised by Benchmark and Best Practice Management magazines.
- The National Enterprise Environmental Achievement Award 2008, the top Hong Kong Environmental Achievement Leadership Award 2008 and the Hong Kong Enterprise Environmental Achievement Award 2008 organised by the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Association to recognise HSBC's outstanding environmental performance and proactive efforts to raising environmental awareness in mainland China and Hong Kong.
- Brand-with-a-Conscience Award 2008: Grand Award, Gold Award – Business Ethics, Gold Award – Caring Work Environment, Gold Award – Corporate Governance, Gold Award – Environmental Care and Silver Award – Community Care organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing. The awards recognise the Bank’s contributions to the betterment of the society.
- Prime Awards for CSR 2008 - Best-of-the-Best Award organised by the Prime Magazine. The award recognises HSBC as a leader in the field of corporate sustainability, in particular our consideration for the community, employees and their family, addressing special needs in the society and caring for other communities when natural disasters strike.
- Best Practice 2008 Award in Corporate Social Responsibility organised by Best Practice Management Group
- Best-of-the-Best 'Star Eco-Business' Award 2008 organised by the Prime Magazine and the Business Environment Council recognising HSBC's leading sustainable business practices and its proactive approach to raise environmental awareness among employees, customers as well as the members of the public.
- Eco-Service Enterprise Award under the Top Service Awards 2007 organised by Next Magazine.
- Sustainable Bank of the Year 2006 in the first Financial Times Sustainability Banking Awards.
- Top Financial Company 2006 in Covalence Ethical Ranking: Best Ethical Quote Score, Best Ethical Quote Progress, and Best Reported Performance.
- HSBC has been rated number one in the financial sector and third overall in the 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project(CDP).
- Ranked first in the Hang Seng Index (HSI) Listed Companies CSR Survey, commissioned by Oxfam Hong Kong and conducted by an agency CSR Asia More
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index (Member since 2001)
- FTSE4Good Index Series (Member since 2001)
- Ranked the top of 40 leading banks in Ceres' corporate governance and climate change report - scored 70/100
- Ranked 4th in One World Trust's Global Accountability Ranking 2007
- Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World 2007 - Corporate Knights Inc. and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
- Named the world's most valuable banking brand - The Banker Magazine and Brand Finance's Top 500 Bank Brands 2008 Index
- Ranked 23rd in Interbrand's 2007 Best Global Brands
Teresa Au (4th from right), Head of Corporate Sustainability Asia Pacific Region, and colleagues represent HSBC to receive the awards at the Best Practice Financial Services Awards 2009 presentation ceremony.
Head of Corporate Sustainability Asia Pacific Region Teresa Au received the 'Top Donor of the Year' Award from Mrs Selina Tsang, President of the Chest and wife of HKSAR Chief Executive at the 2008/09 annual award presentation ceremony of the Community Chest.
Teresa Au, Head of Corporate Sustainbility Asia Pacifc Region, and colleagues accept the Best Practice Award in high spirit.
Peter Wong (right), Executive Director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited received the Financial Institutions (Gold Award) under the Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence scheme at the award presentation ceremony in March 2009 from Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the HKSAR.
Teresa Au (left) received the Green Enterprise of the Year: Grand Award of the "One Factory-One Year-One Environmental Project" Programme from Prof K C Chan (middle), Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury and Daniel Cheng (right), FHKI deputy-chairman.
Teresa Au (middle) received the"Brand-with-a-Conscience Award of the Year - the Grand Award" by Dr Chan Yan Chong (left), Chairman of the Award Judging Panel and K Y Yim (right), Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing, at the awards recognition ceremony.
HSBC recognised for green leadership
HSBC in HK has been awarded the first Gold Award for our all-round outstanding environmental performance in the financial sector from the HKSAR Government.
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HSI Listed Companies CSR Survey
HSBC was ranked first in the Hang Seng Index (HSI) Listed Companies CSR Survey which demonstrated the Bank's leadership in corporate sustainability.
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Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Since 2001, HSBC has been a member of the DJSI World Index, which selects the top 10 per cent of leading sustainability companies from the world's 2,500 largest companies.
FTSE4Good
HSBC has been a member of the ethical index FTSE4Good since its inception has been successful in gaining inclusion in the index for the eighth consecutive year.
