Bao Viet wins Asia’s most transparent report award
Bao Viet Holdings, a financial and insurance services group of Vietnam, has been honoured as the firm with the most transparent financial report in Asia by the Singapore-based sustainability services provider CSRWorks International.
Bao Viet Holdings has won the Asia’s Most Transparent Report award presented by CSRWorks International (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Bao Viet Holdings, a financial andinsurance services group of Vietnam, has been honoured as the firm with themost transparent financial report in Asia by the Singapore-based sustainabilityservices provider CSRWorks International.
Among the 17 categories of the AsiaSustainability Reporting Awards 2018 (ASRA), Bao Viet’s report was nominated infour: Asia’s Best Sustainability Report (Stand-alone), Asia’s Most TransparentReport, Asia’s Best Materiality Reporting and Asia’s Best SustainableDevelopment Goals Reporting.
It won the Asia’s Most Transparent Report, thefirst time a Vietnamese company has received an award in this category.
The Bao Viet report was praised by the ASRAjudging panel for using the new Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards anda creative presentation format.
Not only providing financial information, thisreport also detailed non-financial information like development strategy,corporate governance quality, social activities and environmental issues.-VNA
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Bao Viet Holdings has won the Asia’s Most Transparent Report award presented by CSRWorks International (Photo: VNA) 
