Sustainability & ESG Sustainability Reports & Policies
Documenting our achievements and providing an outlook on sustainability topics are important tools in our stakeholder communication.
Sustainability Reports & Statements
Sustainability Statement 2024
The publication of our annual sustainability reports is an important transparency and information tool in the dialogue with our stakeholders. With the publication of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, non-financial reports are now part of the annual report.
Here you can find the relevant templates to be reported in accordance with Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation and the supplementary Delegated Regulations for the 2024 financial year:
The key metrics and corresponding targets from the current sustainability statement are summarized here:
Past Sustainability Reports
Here you can find our previously published reports as individual documents.
Our Sustainability Report 2023:
Overview of the relevant templates to be reported in accordance with Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation and the supplementary Delegated Regulations for the 2023 financial year:
Our Sustainability Report 2022:
Our Sustainability Report 2021:
Our Sustainability Report 2020:
Our Sustainability Report 2019:
Our Sustainability Report 2018:
Our Sustainability Report 2017:
Since 2010, we have been focusing on sustainability and reporting our activities:
UK Modern Slavery Statement 2024
Here you can find our statement on sensitive topics we care about.
Our statement on modern slavery:
Sustainability Policies
Topics Important to Us
We have a code of conduct for RBI Group as well as a code of conduct for our suppliers. There is also a policy in place about remuneration. And we provide the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement of RBI Group.
As banks often deal with sensitive topics, there are also policies in place about:
ESG Risk Management at RBI
Regulatory Disclosures
RBI actively manages Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks in alignment with European Banking Authority (EBA) guidelines and recommendations. In line with EBA’s final guidelines, RBI meets Pillar 3 disclosure requirements, including specific ESG-related disclosures. The current Pillar 3 reporting (Article 449a CRR) is featured in the 2024 Annual Regulatory Disclosure Report 2024 (page 40) and references detailed qualitative and quantitative ESG data in the RBI Pillar 3 Report Excel (Tables 1-3 and Templates 1-10).
Contact Us About Sustainability Reports and Policies
Send us your questions and suggestions to sustainabilitymanagement@rbinternational.com.
Regulatory Information
Information according to Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosure requirements in the financial services sector (SFDR), which apply to RBI as financial adviser.
Valid from: 18.03.2025
Transparency of sustainability risk while providing investment advice (Art. 3 (2) SFDR)
According to Article 2 No. 22 of the SFDR, sustainability risk is defined as an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or a potential material negative impact on the value of our clients’ investment.
Currently, RBI provides investment advice only for derivative products that are used to hedge interest rate, currency, and credit exposures and only to clients who are classified as professional or eligible counterparty within the meaning of MiFID II regulations.
Due to the product characteristics of OTC derivatives, RBI does not classify them as sustainable financial instruments in the context of investment advice. Sustainability risks are therefore only included in investment advice under the aspect that RBI, as counterparty, is subject to its own sustainability strategy. A further inclusion of sustainability risks when providing investment advice is therefore currently not possible due to the financial instruments (OTC derivatives) offered.
No consideration of adverse impacts of investment advice on sustainability factors (Art. 4 (5) lit. b SFDR)
RBI currently provides advisory only for derivative products that are used to hedge interest rate, currency, and credit exposures and only to clients who are classified as professional or eligible counterparty within the meaning of MiFID II regulations.
Due to the product characteristics and general nature of these financial instruments RBI cannot access the potential negative impact on sustainability factors they might have or of any sustainability risks on the performance of such products. Thus, RBI does not classify them as sustainable financial instruments in the context of investment advice. For this reason, it is currently not possible to take into account the principal adverse impacts (PAI) of investment decisions on sustainability factors when providing investment advice on aforementioned derivatives.
Adverse impacts on sustainability factors are therefore only included in our investment advice under the aspect that RBI, as counterparty in these trades, is subject to its own sustainability strategy. RBI's sustainability strategy can be found here.
RBI is observing the legal and market development and will, if necessary, reassess the consideration of adverse impacts on sustainability factors for derivative products when providing investment advice.
Transparency of remuneration policies in relation to the integration of sustainability risks (Art. 5 (1) SFDR):
RBI ensures that its remuneration policies adequately reflect sustainability risks. Thus, the remuneration policies appropriately foster that the investment advice given promotes sound and effective risk management with respect to sustainability risks whereas the structure of remuneration does not encourage excessive risk‐taking with respect to sustainability risks and is linked to risk‐adjusted performance. This is particularly done by including appropriate sustainability measures in the setting of targets in the Performance Management Process of functions working in the affected areas.