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Group: MBA Modular E1 2010
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Table of contents iiList of tables ivList of figures vList of appendices viList of acronyms and abbreviations vii1 NEDBANK GROUP INDUSTRY AND CORE BUSINESS 11.1 SUSTAINABILITY TRENDS IN THE BANKING SECTOR 22 ESG NEDBANKS DUE DILIGENCE 33 GENERIC TYPES OF COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES FRAMEWORK 54 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 105 REFERENCES 12
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Table 2.1: Big Four Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) assessment 4Table 2.2: Nedbank Equator Principle Deals 2007-2011 5Table 3.1: Nedbank Sustainability Cost-Benefit summary 8Table A.1: ESG DD Questionnaire 14
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Figure 1.1: Nedbank Historic timeline. 1
Figure 2.1: UNGC Issue Area Coverage Nedbank 2012 (Self assessment). 4
Figure 3.1: Generic Competitive Environmental Strategies. 7Figure 3.2: Nedbank Sustainable Value Framework. 9
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APPENDIX A ESG NEDBANK due diligence based on cdc group TOolkit 14
APPENDIX B Nedbank SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES 18
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AA1000APS AccountAbilitys Principle Standards
CDC Commonwealth Development Corporation UK
CDM Clean Development Mechanism ProjectsCDP Carbon Disclosure Project
CES Competitive Environmental Strategy
CSI Corporate Social Investment
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
DFI Development Finance Institutions
EP Equator Principles
ESG environmental, social and governance matters
GHG greenhouse gas
GRI Global Reporting Initiative
ILO International Labour Organisation
IFC International Finance Corporation
IRC Integrated Reporting Committee
IIRC International Integrated Reporting Committee
ISO International Standard Organisation
KPIs Key Performance Indicators
MDB Multilateral Development Banks
NGOs non-governmental organisations
PFMA Public Finance Management Act
RED Record of Employees Dismissed for dishonesty
SA South Africa
SEMS Social and Environmental Management System
UN PRI United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment
UNEPFI United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative
UNGC United National Global Compact
WWFCP World Wildlife Fund Conservation Partnership
GTSC Group Transformation and Sustainability Committee
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1 NEDBANK GROUP INDUSTRY AND CORE BUSINESS
The Nedbank Group Limited is a centenary bank-holding institution, grown to become part of Big
Four group in South Africa, currently standing as the smallest of the group in terms of market
capitalisation, with Nedbank Limited as its main subsidiary. The groups shares were listed on the
JSE for the first time in 1969 and at the Namibian Stock Exchange in 2007 (Nedbank, 2012).
The Groups three main financial services are wholesale and retail banking; insurance and asset
management, which are offered through five business groups covering the entire spectrum of
banking services in the local industry, namely: Capital, Corporate, Business, Retail and Wealth
clusters; focusing its regional offer in Southern Africa and recently Pan-Africa through an alliance
with Ecobank lnc., while positioning it self as the leading bank in terms of sustainability and client
centred focus (Nedbank, 2012). Figure 1.1, highlights specific events during the groups last seven
years, plotted along the banks share price at the end of each year.
Figure 1.1: Nedbank Historic timeline.
Source: Nedbank, 2012 and McGregorBFA, 2012.
In terms of the financial sector, according to Matoti (2010:10), the SouthAfricanbanking industry
has endured and intense transformation in the past a few decades. Nonetheless, particularly well
advanced and close to those in industrialised nations. It is for the most part perceived as a world-
class industry, with satisfactory capital assets, innovation and infrastructure and a solid
administrative and statutory environment. This unyielding regulatory framework is considered to be
responsible of having safeguarded the sector from the worldwide financial crises initiated in 2008.
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South Africa, nonetheless, was faced with a financial decline during 2009, which affected customer
spending behaviours, resulting in higher reluctance to undertake more debt obligations.
Consequently, the non-performing loans increase had a big impact on the financial institutions
books. The aggregate assets and liabilities declined in 2009 but have begun to increase as the
nation is moving out of recession, while the banking sector continued to apply stricter loaning
measures as a consequence of the implementation of the National Credit Act in 2007 (Matoti,
2010:11)
Bishop (2011:11) is of the opinion, that business confidence has started to climb in South Africa,
with the Rand's robustness providing a lift as foreign speculators are acquiring higher-yielding
assets such as SA securities, and domestic growth turned out at 3.1% y-o-y. Local private sector
spending and Capex are anticipated to grow, the former determined by pure salary-wage increase
and unsecured lending, and the latter driven by government and parastatal public spending. These
factors, together with the fact that SA financial institutions remained well capitalized, profitable and
with good levels of liquidity and debt ratios over the past years, shield by the tight government
exchange controls have reduced the risk of future downward trends and euro-zone debt crisis
contagion.
While for quite some time, Private Banking was perceived as environmentally neutral, this
condition has radically changed in recent years. While this neutrality might appear so in terms of
their internal operations, the impact on the environment caused by their financial decisions has
increasingly become more evident, as ultimately, these institutions are responsible for defining and
adhering to policy frameworks, which purposefully reject or favour certain kinds of investments
(Dash, R. 2008:26).
In addition to this, and according to the Water Financial (2010) amongst others, the level of
corruption and poor financial practices unveiled by the 2008 crisis negatively impacted the general
public view upon financial institutions. All of this factors, have been intensified by an increasing
awareness by the general public about sustainable practices, environmental impact and social
inequalities, which have pushed financial institutions to rethink and revaluate their commercial
proposition.
Whereas these issues have only recently become private banking institutions broad concerns,
Nedbank adherence to these principles can be tracked back to 2004, where under the leadership
of Tom Boardman, the Values and Brand (SVB) workshops were introduced. Back then, through
this workshops, the Deep Green values were presented to the stakeholders (Barrett, R., 2009),
aiming to translate and expand the banks financial services into the creation of added value by
endorsing ESG initiatives, and a diversified portfolio of products in health care, alternative energy,
fair trade, social dwelling, and community micro businesses.
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2 ESG NEDBANKS DUE DILIGENCE
In order to perform the due diligence (DD) on ESG matters for the Nedbank Group, this paper will
base its analysis on the comprehensive framework provided by the Commonwealth Development
Corporation (CDC) UK government owned development finance institution. The ESG CDC Toolkit
for fund managers was developed in order to provide an indication to their partners on how
successful ESG standards could add value on their investment processes. According to the CDC
Group (2011), the first point a DD ought to evaluate is if an organisation is compliant with all
important laws and regulations, including a review of information available for the general public in
order to examine the business worthiness or lawful debates, in terms of environmental, social and
governance issues.
Appendix A, provides the DD questionnaire that was followed in order to assess the ESG standing
of the Nedbank Group. Due to evident constraints, the sources of research were limited toNedbanks 2010 and 2011 Annual Reports, as well as information available on the Internet. The
DD questionnaire findings were triangulated against the United Nations Global Compact Self
Assessment Tool and the B-Corporation CRSHub assessment in order to gather a more unbiased
assessment.
The comprehensive and detailed DD executed, puts in evidence that the Nedbank Group has very
high and very well standardised ESG reporting standards. As can be seen in Appendix A, there
were very few areas in which the group does not have a policy or initiative in place in order to
communicate either internally or externally their corporate social and environmental strategies. Out
of the 62 questions only three points came out under question, being these the No Local
adherence to the Fundamental ILO Conventions; the Large or serious law suits and the Media
references to illegal or disreputable activities, which are described in detail below.
The former issue, is acknowledged in their UNGC Communication on Progress statement (2012),
were under Criterion 9, reference to pertinent worldwide conventions and other global instruments
such as ILO Core Conventions is shown unmarked and the whole Labour chapter is self assessed
as the lower area covered out of the four evaluated as shown on Figure 2.2.
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Figure 2.1: UNGC Issue Area Coverage Nedbank 2012 (Self assessment).
Source: UNGC, 2012.
Out of the other Big Four banks in SA, only FirstRand Group participates in the UNGC, so no
meaningful comparison could be established against the local competitors. Nevertheless, is worth
mentioning that the FirstRand report is remarkably less comprehensive and the mere fact that no
other local financial institution participates in this initiative could be interpreted as an indication of
the level of commitment and leadership that Nedbank has in the local sector. This assumption is
supported when we analyse the ratings given by the B-Corporation CSRHub against the other
larger South African banks, as seen on Table 2.1 below.
Table 2.1: Big Four Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) assessment
Source: CSRHUB, 2011 and Rea, M. 2011
Whereas the Big Four rating are higher than the local sector, it is evident that Nedbanks ratings
are consistently superior against its peers, across the all dimensions. The heat map used to
display the scores, also highlights the fact that Community, Employees and Environment
categories are the areas of leaser performance by the industry, whilst Governance, including areas
such as board composition, compensation, transparency and reporting receive higher overall
attention by the financial sector.
The second issue, Large or serious law suits, is brought forward because if the dispute raised by
ABSAs determination to go to court in an attempt to recuperate more then R 773m from Nedbank
for claims in losses endured after the Pinnacle Point Single Stock Futures (SSF) took over, being
this the first time such a big claim is made between institutions belonging to the Big Four cluster.
Absa's summons blamed Nedbank for breaking the principles of the Takeover Regulation Panel,
the Competition Act as well as the Banks Act. stating that Nedbank did not get authorization from
the regulator nor the Competition Tribunal to acquire Pinnacle Point (Kamhunga, 2012); and while
Nedbank effectively contended in a hearing against the Securities Regulation Panel in 2010 that it
was only an intermediary with no intent on attaining control of Pinnacle (Bonorchis, 2012), the
damage to the public image was already inflicted.
The final point worth mentioning was identified by the Media references to illegal or disreputable
activities question under business integrity, in the CDC DD template. This, with reference to the
report published in 2011 by a group of NGOs, namely Urgewald, GroundWork, Earthlife Africa and
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BankTrack, were the portfolio of 93 financial institutions was examined in order to identify the main
coal sponsors and lenders; proving, according to the authors (Schcking, Kroll, Louvel, & Richter,
2011) the first comprehensive climate ranking for financial institutions.
The report, was subsequently used by the Mail & Guardian (Baillie, 2012) to denounce Nedbanks
ranking at 76 in the list, with a total of 85 million euros invested in Eskom operations since 2005,
something the author found as enough evidence to blame Nedbank for Greenwashing, forcing the
Group to emit a media release in which the bank supported its investments claiming carful
consideration to ESG issues based on the Equatorial Principles and a constant engagement with
its clients in order to minimise operational impact, advise on investments on energy efficient
sources and renewables and mining rehabilitation programmes (Burnett, 2011).
Regarding the declaration in terms of the EP evaluation, Table 2.2 below, shows the number of
projects that have been drawdown since 2007, by Nedbank Capital, under adherence to theInternational Finance Corporation (IFC) standards and legislation, which not only demonstrates a
substantial commitment from the Group to their Deep Green Aspirations but as argued by
Chonco (2009) the benefits behind the adoption outweighs its cost, since as a signatory between
other benefits, Nedbank has access to funding from the IFC and various Multilateral Development
Banks; makes marketing sense as a branding differentiator and responsible Green Bank;
provides assistance on partnering with other international signatories and helps reducing financial
and reputational risk.
Table 2.2: Nedbank Equator Principle Deals 2007-2011
Source: Nedbank, 2011a
3 GENERIC TYPES OF COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES FRAMEWORK
As an exhaustive and detailed DD based on the CDC Tool kit, was undertaken, rather than
performing a further analysis of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), this paper will focus instead
on the analysis of Nedbanks Competitive Environmental Strategy (CES) analysis as described by
Orsatos paper (2006), in order to assess the groups risks and opportunities as well as
environmental initiatives overall strategic alignment.
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It is nevertheless worth mentioning that in 2011, a joint financial and non-financial assurance team
carried the external audition of Nedbanks Integrated Report, given as a result the inclusion of
additional key performance indicators (KPIs) in order to strength the inspection and evaluation
process (Nedbank, 2011b). The Assurance Statement from the external auditors found that
Nedbanks assertions concerning the alignment with the AA1000APS guidelines of materiality,
inclusivity and responsiveness are justly indicated and that the chosen KPIs for the assurance
statement analysis and the self-declared of the GRI G3.1 A+ application level are in accordance to
the GRI G3.1 principles.
The most important point behind Orsatos strategic framework (2006) is that of properly identifying
and qualifying the CSR investments, in order to understand the different conditions that would
need to be satisfied to render the environmental initiative profitable for the organisation. ESG
initiatives profitability are highly context related, and therefore without the proper strategy
alignment, market analysis, differentiating value proposition or clear expectations these initiatives
wont translate into sustainable value for the organisation and its stakeholders.
Below, Figure 3.1 classifies Nedbanks ESG main initiatives in the Generic Competitive
Environmental Strategy framework in order to identify sources of competitive advantage. According
to Orsato (2006), this decoupling is critical for the understanding and selection of particular
circumstances in which corporate environmental strategies may enhance the competitiveness of
the company. (Strategy 2 quadrant has been enlarged for this analysis).
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Orsato (2006) argues that this competitiveness can either be acquired either through brand
positioning or resource-based strategies. According to Porter (cited in Orsato, 2006) a favourable
brand positioning means getting an advantage though cost leadership or value differentiation; while
the resource-based perspective would pivot around the firms use of the available resources and
not as a function of the industry configuration, therefore, the focus lies in the firms internal
capabilities to source and manage these assets (Orsato, 2006).
Figure 3.1: Generic Competitive Environmental Strategies.
Source: Nedbank, 2011a and Orsato 2006.
In this case, based on the framework by Orsato (2006), Nedbank does not only pursue efficiencies
on their internal processes but also strives towards achieving full recognition from the public for
their efforts. They are most certainly investing large amounts of resources subscribing to
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international business codes and certifications; unprofitable environmental developments and
marketing in order to communicate these efforts.
These investments, and the fact that in many of these initiatives Nedbank has been the first
signatory in SA (ie. Carbon Neutral, UNCG, etc), evidently has given the Group a differentiation
advantage that puts them as the leader in the sector and allows the bank to harvest first mover
advantages. Nevertheless, these efforts come at a cost, and as the industry constantly bends
towards implementing even more ambitious practices, the boundaries for beyond compliance
strategy stretches further, and the differentiation factors slowly become commodities and industry
standards, the firm will have to continue developing new competencies and creative innovations
(Orsato, 2006). Table 3.1 shows some of the key benefits and trade-offs considered by Nedbank,
according to Chonco (2009).
Table 3.1: Nedbank Sustainability Cost-Benefit summary
Benefits Costs
Singing to EP has allowed the Group to get fundingfrom the IFC, MDBs and DFI. Organisations withstringent environmental and social policies forfunding.
Lack of understanding and appreciation forenvironmental and social initiatives might generatethe loose business to other financial institutions withless strict policies.
Green initiatives and efforts have provided then bankwith a strong market differentiator while adopting EPhas improved their compliance processes, marketreputation and effective risk management,subsequently translating on a and a competitive
advantage.
Direct costs driven by the implementation ofenvironmental management systems, Certificationand endorsement, Green marketing andadvertisement, monitoring and reporting and externalscrutinity.
These initiatives, in particular the EP, have allowedthe Group to become the bank of choice for the othersignatories Banks in international agreements.
Nedbank considers the implementation of EP as anextension of their green aspirations. As the bank isconstantly scrutinised by the public and NGOs,reputational risk is critical.
Sustainability efforts decrease monetary andreputational risks, allowing for a proactiveidentification of financial threats and helpdetermining the required systems for risk mitigation.
Greater level of stringency comparing with domesticenvironmental and social legislations.
Source: Chonco, 2009
According to Orsato (2006) the investment profits that might be realised out of these four strategies
rely on many variables, running from the organisations internal capabilities to the external
structure of the banking sector. Nevertheless, when focusing and delivering effective ESG
strategies, a holistic combination of both positioning and resource based perspective is required.
The sustainability value framework, developed by Hart and Milsteins (2003) helps assessing the
level of integration and consistency of the sustainability strategies and stakeholders value
expectations, something achievable only by having a balanced portfolio between all four
quadrants.
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Figure 3.2 shows the Sustainable Value Framework for the Nedbank Group. From it, is evident that
Nedbank currently creates shareholder value by having a broad portfolio across all four quadrants,
which could further enhance value creation by tapping on the following opportunities:
Figure 3.2: Nedbank Sustainable Value Framework.
Source: Nedbank, 2011b and Hart et al. 2003.
Clean technology and branding: Nedbank should continue developing its existing capabilities
towards serving previously untapped markets as well as new technologies that facilitate and bring
financial solutions to un-served customers. Technology and renewal energy, will become a key
source of new investments as these strive to obtain energy in cleaner and more efficient ways;
while adherence to the EP, and the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, render any financial
endowment on traditional energy sources difficult to justify for the Nedbank Group.
Pollution prevention: Further strengthening of internal systems such as Groups Social and
Environmental Management System (SEMS)not onlyallow the bank to control and minimise social
and environmental impact, but also to safeguard shareholders investment by striving for
responsible, and transparent business best practices while attracting new like minded clients with a
trustworthy platform to finance their projects (Nedbank, 2011c).
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Sustainability Vision:Growing market share in the green economy, is a key element of the Groups
strategic objective. As previously identified in the competitive environmental framework, Nedbank
has established a leader advantage and a clear competitive focus that differentiates their services
from those of its peers, positioning it self in a strong place in order to develop and create wealth at
a massive scale, taking advantage of Africas demographic and economic growth.
Product Stewardship: In order to engage with stakeholder through business and governance
transparency, Nedbanks reporting and communication strategies are a key factor for success,
demanding close engagement with the different players along their entire value chain, such as
suppliers, regulators, auditors, customers and communities, as well as media and NGOs. It also
implies the assumption over the responsibility beyond conventional boundaries, including
assessment of the impact from raw resources required for the service of their financial instruments
to the disposal and decommissioning of such projects by their clients.
4 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
De Boer (2012), is of the opinion that there was a dramatically important change in the way private
business see the role they play and the way they approach ESG issues, at the Rio+20 UN
Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012. While policy makers are frozen by the current
state of their economies and political turmoil, private institutions has taken a more proactive
perspective and have recognized that they can not wait for the politicians to resolve sustainability
concerns, rather business need to take action on their own. According to him, there was evidence
of a shift in the way companies address their bottom line, and include people and planet in their
equation.
This due diligence, clearly shows that Nedbank is in the right track, and has managed to make this
shift earlier than many other financial institutions, both locally and globally, supporting the Groups
desired positioning in the industry as the Green Bank leader in sustainable matters and provided
with the opportunity to build experience and expertise for more than two decades, while pioneering
and profiting from the new opportunities generated by this new markets, such as:
Revenue growth by leveraging financial requirements in emerging markets, such as efficient
and clean energy, sustainable businesses, green building etc
Carbon neutrality and trading advisory and on transactions with environmental commodities
Enhancing of brand identity as a responsible for community and social stewardship
Identification and development of energy efficiency projects
Identification and development of Clean Development Mechanism Projects (CDM)
EPs as a usuful risk management tool for portfolio risk management
Triple bottom line (3BL) analysis and impact assesment
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Table A.1: ESG DD Questionnaire
General questions Yes No Comments
Compliance with all relevant laws, standards andregulations?
No significant fines werereceived during the period
Code of BankingPractice
Sector Guidelines
King III
GRI1
AA10002
Local law enforcement situation? No significant fines receivedfor non-compliance in thisregard in the reporting period
Record keeping? Nedbank Code of Ethics
Permits and licences: obtained and up-to-date? Stakeholders Engagement
Risk management processes? Enterprise wide riskmanagement framework(ERMF)
Environmental, social and business integrity track-record?
Nedbank Code of Ethics
Certifications obtained (e.g. ISO 14001; OHSAS)? See
Refer to Appendix B For investments with significant risks: compliance withthe IFC Performance Standards and Environmental andHealth and Safety Guidelines? See Appendix 5.
Adherence to other relevant international standards?
Supply chain practices? Nedbank GroupProcurement
The Environment Yes No Comments
Effluents? Section 4: Environmental
sustainability Emissions? GHG EMISSIONS
INVENTORY
Water pollution? Section 4: Environmentalsustainability
Air pollution? GHG EMISSIONSINVENTORY
Energy use? 12% reduction by the end of2015
Natural resource use? WWF Partnership
Water use? 10% reduction by the end of2011
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Waste management? 10% reduction by the end of2011
Land clearance?
Sensitive forests or other habitats? WWFCP
Biodiversity loss? WWFCP
Climate change: risks and opportunities? CLIMATE CHANGEPOSITION STATEMENT
Other environmental impacts? Refer to Appendix B
Social matters
Labour and working conditions Yes No Comments
Local adherence to the Fundamental ILOConventions?
X UGCC Criterion 9
Local minimum working age in line with ILO
Conventions 138 and 182?. Company compliance? SUPPLIER CODE OF
CONDUCT
Local minimum wage levels? Company compliance? Remuneration Report
Discrimination? Internal Ombudsman, UGCCCriterion 9
Representation and unions? Collective Bargaining chapter
Vulnerable labour? Eyethu schemes, adherenceto EP, BBBEE level 2
Health and safety Yes No Comments
Types and level of health and safety risks? OHS programme above 95
Protective measures, procedures and equipment? Health and safety (OHS) act,85 of 1993, Compensation forOccupational injuries andDiseases act (COID), 130 of1993 and internal OHSpolicies
Safety record?
Training?
Other social matters Yes No Comments
Impacts on local communities? Carbon Credits approach,NEDBANK FOUNDATION
Any particular local social issues? BBBEE
Community / NGO consultations? WWF
Relocations? Nedbank EnvironmentalPolicies
Resettlement?
Sensitive cultural heritage issues?
Risk of adverse impacts for indigenous peoples?
For remote operations: impact of company activitieson local communities? Use of nonlocal labour?
Accommodation and other living conditions for workersand their families?
UNGC
Retrenchments? Cultural Sustainability2011 = 7
Corporate use of security force? X
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Governance: business integrity and corporate governance
Business Integrity Yes No Comments
Transparency Internationals Country CorruptionPerception Ranking?
Ranked 64, 4.1/10.0 2011
Prevalence of bribery in industry sector? Medium
Criminal convictions? X Corruption Act and Bill
Code of conduct? Public Finance ManagementAct (PFMA), King III, Code ofbusiness Ethics andEmployee pledge
Anti-bribery training for employees? Group Transformation, Socialand Ethics Committee (TSEC)
Anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer(KYC) training and procedures?
Private Finance Initiatives(PFI)
Basel Committee on
Banking Security; Financial Action Task Forceon Money Laundering;
Global Coalition for Africa;
Global Forum on FightingCorruption; and the
Group of Eight
Record of EmployeesDismissed for dishonestyRED database
Accounting and legal compliance?
Political affiliations or contributions? X Apolitical stance
Media references to illegal or disreputable activities? Bankrolling Climate Changereport and Mail & Guardian
Undisclosed or unusual beneficial ownership or carriedinterests?
No information available
Sudden or unexplained change of investors,shareholders, auditors, accountants, lawyers or otherprofessional advisors?
X No media highlights
Tax evasion? X No media highlights
Suspicious use of tax havens, off-shore companies,compensation, sources of wealth, lifestyles, fees, local
costs or transfer pricing?
X No media highlights
Large or serious law suits? ABSA vs Nedbank PinnaclePoint Group case
Reluctance to discuss business integrity issues? X Public communication inresponse to Bankrolling
Corporate governance Yes No Comments
Commitment to good corporate governance? Adherence to King III, UKcombined code
Structured and functioning board? Group Transformation andSustainability Committee
(GTSC)
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Adequate control and risk management? Social and Environmental riskManagement Systems(SEMS)
Adequate transparency and disclosure? Benchmarking by theSustainability ServicesReview of SustainabilityReporting (based oncompliance to King III andGRI guidelines) Score: 69.3%
Rank: 23
Rights of minority shareholders and treatment ofstakeholders?
BBBEE Level 2
Source: CDC, 2011; Nedbank, 2011; UNGC, 2011.
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Source: KPMG, 2011, Mlambo & Ncube, 2011, Adapted from previous Strategy Assignment.