TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS
CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT
Bursa Malaysia is a market operator and a regulator, responsible for ensuring the sustainability of the Malaysian capital markets. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance (“CG”) while operating in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable manner, balancing business opportunities and risks.
Our sustainability leadership is led by our Board of Directors (“Board”), which oversees and ensures that Bursa Malaysia pursues its regulatory and commercial objectives, and remains a responsible and sustainable organisation. Information on the Board, Board Charter, Governance Model, Board Committees and their Terms of Reference is available on our corporate website.
Our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) fortifies Bursa Malaysia’s sustainability practices across the management and operational fronts with a separate Group Management Governance Framework. The CEO who leads the Sustainability Committee reports to the Board of Bursa Malaysia on regular basis, providing updates as well as relevant proposals on the Group’s sustainability strategy and performance for the Board’s review and approval.
We interact with a large number of different stakeholder groups. We empower all our business and functional units to regularly engage with their respective stakeholders on their chosen platforms to ensure that key issues impacting our stakeholders are addressed in our practices and business strategies.
We have previously reported our sustainability initiatives, categorised into three priority areas namely:
- Responsible and Ethical Practices;
- Reaching out to Community; and
- Managing our impact on the Environment.
We are in the process of reviewing our sustainability approach and disclosing our sustainability practices and performances based on Economic, Environmental and Social (“EES”) considerations, transitioning from reporting based on the four Corporate Social Responsibility dimensions namely Marketplace, Workplace, Environment and Community.
Our stakeholders should read this Statement together with our standalone Sustainability Report (“SR”) as the latter provides a more comprehensive coverage of our approach in managing our material EES risks and opportunities. We first issued our standalone SR in 2011 and have continued to do so annually. Our SRs have made reference to Global Reporting InitiativeTM (“GRI”) G3 and subsequently, to G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.