A Message from Scotiabank Managing Director, Caribbean East, Mr. Stephen F. Cozier, on Corporate Social Responsibility

At Scotiabank, we recognize that our job involves more than helping our customers become financially better off and creating value for our shareholders. We realize that we have a responsibility to assist a much broader spectrum of stakeholders, because the health and vitality of our bank are closely tied to the well being of the communities we serve internationally.

As a result, we pay close attention to the issues that are important to each of our stakeholders groups – shareholders, customers, employees and the community – and that touch directly and indirectly on various aspects of our bank’s operations, such as environmental protection and fair and equal access to employment and banking services, as well as funding for small businesses and community development.

In recent years, we have begun using the term corporate social responsibility (CSR) to describe this broad relationship. We define CSR as the way we interact with all of our stakeholders to meet our social, economic, environmental and ethical responsibilities.

Scotiabank is committed to becoming a leader in CSR and we have made this one of our continuing objectives. We believe that our CSR objective is inextricably linked to the goals we have set for ourselves as an organization, to provide a good return on our shareholders’ investments, to be a great place for our customers to do business, to offer our employees a great place to work and to be a positive influence in the communities where we do business.

For more information about Scotiabank Group, refer to our Public Accountability Statement/Corporate Social Responsibility Report NOTE: You will be taken to the Canadian site of Scotiabank.