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Ranking Material Matters Description

9 Industry Advocating for strategic collaboration with government entities, international
Partnership and associations, multilateral organisations, industry peers (other EXIM banks,
Collaboration/ DFIs and commercial banks), and stakeholders from the business community
Strategic in exploring new avenues to accelerate sustainable and resilient business
Alliances development

10 Financial Inclusion Aspiring to become a pioneer in sustainable practices amongst other DFIs by
and Literacy supporting socially responsible causes, notably:
(a) Ensuring affordable and accessible financial products and services to all
layers of the community, such as customers, SMEs or minority-owned
businesses, as well as unserved and underserved markets, and

b) Equipping underserved communities with adequate financial knowledge
through the delivery of targeted community capacity building and
empowerment programmes with the intention of helping local and
vulnerable communities mitigate and build resilience against the adverse
impacts of climate change

GOING BEYOND MATERIAL MATTERS: STAKEHOLDER INPUT ON SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS AREAS

In addition to identifying material matters, we actively gathered stakeholder input on specific sustainability focus areas. Through a
survey, we presented eight potential focus areas to our various stakeholder groups. The top four areas, reflecting the majority of
stakeholder preferences, are:

FOCUS AREA 1 FOCUS AREA 2 FOCUS AREA 3 FOCUS AREA 4
Supporting Exporters Low-carbon Transition Strengthening Green Building
Resilience Supporting customers In-house Sector Financing green
Facilitating more in adopting sustainable Specialisation projects that
Malaysian exporters and low carbon Ensuring the Bank’s integrate eco-friendly
in sustainable and practices in-house capabilities components and
resilient business are equipped to serve resource-efficient
growth across fundamental processes in the
sectors under our entire life-cycle
financing portfolio and functioning of
buildings