GULF ONE INVESTMENT BANKS' CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Gulf One our set of corporate principles: our responsibilities: our way to ensure open and transparent business practices based on ethical values and respect for the community, employees, the environment, shareholders and other stakeholders.  It is designed to deliver sustainable value to the society at large.

For Gulf One, CSR involves more than embedding responsible banking into our daily activities, it is about communicating the banks actions to its stakeholders and encouraging feedback to ensure a dynamic and relevant CSR vision. 

With our fundamental business principles of collaboration, partnership, and mutual success for all our relationships, our success is measured, not just in the returns we generate for our shareholders, but in the quality and depth of our relationships and the benefit to the economy as a whole.

Our CSR goes beyond compliance to laws: it is about the spirit and intention and excellence of execution.

With passion and performance, Gulf One Investment Bank is committed to creating value for shareholders, customers, staff and society.

Vision x Action = Prosperity

The Banks CSR Framework has four focal areas of CSR practice.  These are:

 1. The Community 

The Bank lives with the community in harmonious, symbiotic relationship. Therefore supporting our employee’s involvement in community issues enriches both the community and the bank.  Supporting education is a key focus for the bank. 

 Education + Excellence = Superior Skills x Value-Added Jobs

2. The Market Place

The Marketplace is where we find important stakeholders – our shareholders, suppliers, and customers. The bank interacts responsibly with this group in a number of ways, such as assisting the GCC to develop some of the regions structural issues, or by displaying the highest standards of Corporate Governance to exceed shareholder expectations.

 Structuring our Capital Markets for Greater Sustainable Development

 3. The Market Place

We draw our employees from society and so everything we do with our staff needs to be socially responsible, whether we are dealing with basic human rights or gender issues.  A quality work environment and health & safety are obvious considerations, as is the way in which, if we believe in CSR, we instill in our employees the values which the bank holds high. 
 

Employee involvement and volunteerism will be high on our priority list. On a longer term basis, we are looking at the adoption of triple bottom-line and incorporating a CSR statement into our Annual Report. Our Infrastructure Business will also focus on the development of ethically and socially responsible investment funds, and in the future may look at developing socially responsible indices. 

 Gulf One moves to facilitate the emergence of international standards in financing industrial and infrastructure investments

 4. The Environment

When looking at the environment, CSR can focus on a variety of issues. We all of us worry about energy, how to use it more efficiently and how to reduce the way its emissions damage the climate. Protecting our flora and fauna is essential. 

 Quality of Health = Quality of Life

 As you can see, Gulf One Investment Bank has commenced our CSR journey. We intend to make it an integral part of the way we function as a business and of the process of planning and mapping to our future strategies.  We encourage all companies to join us. 

We must have the wisdom and courage to look at our CSR responsibilities as more than a framework, more than a guide, but as a set of principals for life. We will all need to change and prioritize, validate what works best for our business, for society and the environment, but most of all we need to be committed to the path we take.  Gulf One’s commitment and understanding of the culture, the region and its people will enable us to deliver only the exceptional.

Our vision is to challenge the Investment banking sector and mobilize investments towards supporting GCC government’s strategy in building up the capacity needed for long term regional economic prosperity.

Our mission is to assist the GCC, its economy and, most importantly, its people, to move forward and onto new horizons of prosperity.