Malayan Banking

Assessment year: 2018

Total score 
2 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 out of 5
Commodity 
2 out of 5
Scope 
2 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
1 out of 5

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
1 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 out of 5
Commodity 
0 out of 5
Scope 
0 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2016

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
1 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
0 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Bank, Insurance company
HQ 
Malaysia

Collective commitments

Banking Environment Initiative member
No
New York Declaration on Forests signatory
No

150 Financial institutions

Investors and lenders need to adopt and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria that ensure their investments are not funding deforestation. For analysis of how the financial sector is performing click here.

This assessment has been carried out following the assessment methodology developed for the Forest 500 project.

Profile 

Malayan Banking are an international banking group headquartered in Malaysia operating several banking subsidiaries. The services they provide cover corporate finance, capital markets, securities, insurance, consumer and corporate banking. As of 2017, Malayan Banking’s total assets amount to more than 750 billion MYR and they had more than 470 billion MYR of loans, advances and financing. Malayan Banking are among the top 50 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with loans amounting to more than 5 billion USD predominantly in the agriculture and agricultural commodities sectors.

Other financial institutions

ABN Amro

Score
3 out of 5

Crédit Agricole

Score
2 out of 5

Malayan Banking

Score
2 out of 5

Export-Import Bank of Malaysia

Score
1 out of 5

State Bank of India

Score
1 out of 5

American Equity

Score
0 out of 5

Disclaimer

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