Dah Sing Banking Group Limited (DSBG) released its 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, covering the period from 1 January to 31 December 2025 and maintaining the same reporting boundary as the prior year. The disclosure complies with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s Appendix C2 ESG Reporting Code and follows the frameworks of IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s GS-1 Climate Risk Management module.
Financially, profit attributable to shareholders increased 20.3 % year on year to HKD 2.48 billion, while basic earnings per share rose to HKD 1.76. Customer deposits stood at HKD 205.30 billion, advances to customers totalled HKD 140.16 billion and total assets reached HKD 257.91 billion.
Environmental targets advanced on several fronts. Scope 1 greenhouse-gas emissions fell 27.4 % versus 2024, and total Scope 1 + 2 emissions declined to 3,409 tonnes of CO₂-equivalent. Paper use dropped by more than 1.50 million printed pages, comfortably exceeding the annual reduction target of 100,000 pages, while 92 % of suppliers endorsed the bank’s Environmental Responsibility Undertakings. DSBG reiterated its carbon-neutral operations goal for 2030 and net-zero financed emissions goal for 2050, with transition-planning documentation set for development in 2026.
Board-level oversight remains in place through the Risk Management and Compliance Committee, Audit Committee and ESG Committee. A refreshed materiality assessment, aligned with a double-materiality approach, identified five top-priority issues: customer data privacy; ethical behaviour, anti-money-laundering and anti-corruption; customer satisfaction; responsible products and services; and employment.
Operational highlights include 104,472 staff training hours, 1,059 volunteers contributing 2,618 hours to community projects, and extended customer-satisfaction surveys to additional subsidiaries. Digitalisation efforts drove a 27 % increase in mobile-banking push-notification adoption and over 8,000 automated company searches via the HKMA’s Commercial Data Interchange.
DSBG’s report received independent limited assurance from SGS Hong Kong Limited and a BBB rating from MSCI ESG Ratings.