Corporate Citizenship Initiatives
Daiwa Securities Group believes that participation in volunteer programs and other community activities by employees helps broaden their perspectives and familiarize them with different values. We consider that this, in turn, has a good influence on both their work and their lives.
Through our intranet, we provide information on volunteer opportunities for projects planned by ourselves, other businesses and NPOs/ NGOs as well as events that help educate employees and raise their awareness. We also strive to create an environment that makes it easy for employees to volunteer by setting up a recognition program, the Volunteer Award, and other incentives.
In FY2019, we introduced Volunteer Leave to create an environment that facilitates participation in volunteer activities.
Daiwa Flourish Community
At Daiwa Securities Group, we have established the "Daiwa Flourish Community" to create an environment where our officers and employees can engage in social contribution activities such as volunteering and making donations.
Santa Charity Program
Since 2017, our officers, employees, and volunteer alumni have been conducting the "Santa Charity Program," an initiative in which Christmas presents are donated to children. Contributions collected under the Program are used to purchase assorted snacks and toys and donated to children's homes, mother-and-child support facilities, and NPOs supporting children across Japan. The donations are made through the Public Resources Foundation, a public interest incorporated foundation.
President's Awards program
Daiwa Securities has the President's Awards program to recognize outstanding achievements by employees. As part of the program, we introduced the Volunteer Award in FY2007, which is given twice a year to employees and groups involved in volunteer initiatives and activities that provide ongoing support to communities.
Collection Drive
The Daiwa Securities Group has been running the following collection drives as initiatives that are easy for employees to participate in. Collected items are donated to various NPOs and sold by them to fund their activities, including support for education, medical services and assistance to the disabled in developing countries.
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Participation in the TFT program
Since the spring of 2013, Daiwa Securities Group has contributed to the TFT Program, which is organized by TABLE FOR TWO, an internationally designated NPO. This is an initiative aimed at correcting food imbalances between developing and developed countries by donating a portion of revenue from the purchase of food and drink by Group officers and employees to pay for school lunches in developing countries.
We introduced the TFT menu at the cafeteria in the head office building and the staff cafeteria in Daiwa Institute of Research and Daiwa Facilities Co., Ltd. started donating ¥1 per drink sold through the beverage vending machines installed within the Group. Moreover, points earned through the "KA-RA-DA iki-iki Project," which is aimed at strengthening employees' health, can now be redeemed for contributions to the TFT Program. We have thus expanded the platforms for participating in the TFT activities.
Donation of Shareholder Reward Items
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. implements a shareholder reward program. Together with the operation of this program, we donate reward items returned to us due to the relocation of shareholders and other reasons, as well as reward items received for our shareholdings in other companies, to organizations such as designated NPOs and public interest incorporated foundations.
Contribution to Local Communities through Investment Activities of REITs
Daiwa Real Estate Asset Management contributes to local communities by addressing social issues through investment corporations and funds that entrust it with asset management.
Efforts for the sustainable development of local communities
Daiwa Office Investment Corporation is making efforts to contribute to the sustainable development of local communities by participating in various councils related to urban development and cooperating in participation in local events.
In addition, using the site of the office building they own, they will install a share cycle / share car port and attract kitchen cars, etc., and social life of tenant employees, residents, local residents, etc. They are trying to improve the above convenience. To prepare for emergencies such as disasters, they also conduct disaster drills for residents of buildings we own.
Efforts at healthcare facilities
At Daiwa Securities Living Investment Corporation, employees of the management company visit healthcare facilities owned nationwide several times a year for the purpose of deepening their understanding of the on-site work of operators in healthcare facilities and services for facility residents. They participate in exchange events (family social gatherings, senior citizens' associations, etc.), employee experience training, and help with daily work (cleaning, pruning of courtyard plants, etc.). They will continue to actively make this effort as part of our contribution to the local community.
Initiatives Taken by the Group's Overseas Offices
Daiwa Capital Markets America (DCMA) Initiatives
Initiative to Protect the Environment: Participation in the Planting Activity Conducted in Central Park on Earth Day
Daiwa Capital Markets America (DCMA) is committed to environmental conservation and implementing measures to better the global environment. On this year's Earth Day, some DCMA employees volunteered to participate in the spring planting activity conducted in Central Park. This project contributes to the protection of important green space in New York City based on cooperation with the Central Park Conservancy, and to the achievement of Goal 15 (Life on Land) of the SDGs. DCMA annually conducts an activity on Earth Day as part of its effort to improve the environment on a continual basis.
Initiative for Health and Productivity Management: Participation in J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge 2025
DCMA attributes importance to employees' health and well-being and participated in J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge 2025. In this marathon, more than 30,000 people from more than 900 companies participated, including more than 50 participating from DCMA. They ran through Central Park in the event. DCMA daily supports employees in improving their fitness, enhancing their teamwork and raising their community awareness. The marathon provided participating employees with an opportunity to enhance their unity for the establishment of healthy workplaces.
Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Limited (DCME) Initiatives
Contributing to Future Medical Treatment by the Power of Sports and Charity: DCME's Social Contribution Activity
Daiwa Capital Markets Europe (DCME) sponsored the commemorative first FT Nikkei UK Ekiden held on June 24, 2024. This event was organized in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Hakone Ekiden, which is a traditional Japanese relay race. From DCME, 10 employees participated in the race and relayed the sash, running from Oxford to Windsor along the Thames, an icon of London. DCME implemented this initiative to promote the health of employees and help them lead their lives more actively based on its mission, "Enable longer, better lives for our stakeholders."
DCME also conducted a charity donation activity concurrently with the Ekiden event to donate the collected money to a leading-edge medical AI project to detect pulmonary hypertension on an earlier stage. In this project, a computer model using the digital twin of a human body is adopted for doctors to verify therapies and diagnosis methods for the disease in a safer manner. The first phase of the project has already been nearly completed, and the collection of data required to evaluate the effectiveness of current therapies and the degree of seriousness of the disease is now under way. Going forward, doctoral students specializing in the biomedical engineering field will participate in the project for further development of it. In the final phase, the digital twin model will be applied to actual clinical facilities.
DCME will continue to support innovative projects to contribute to society based on its mission, "Enable longer, better lives for our stakeholders."
Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Korea Co., Ltd. Initiatives
Participation in the "Love Kimchi Fair"
Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Korea (Daiwa Korea) collaborated with the HANSUP Foundation for a non-in-person "Love Handmade Soap Production" activity in the first half of FY2024. As part of its social contribution program, Daiwa Korea also participated in the "Love Kimchi Fair" in the latter half of the same fiscal year.
Around 800 people participated in the event from the financial industry, and the produced and packaged kimchi was donated to around 150 welfare facilities.
In addition to this, Daiwa Korea has been making a monthly donation of 100,000 South Korean won to "Korean Hunger Relief," which is an NGO giving support to undernourished children in and outside the country, to contribute to the realization of social harmony.
The South Korean government has been strongly promoting the achievement of an appropriate "work-life balance," the importance of which has been widely recognized in the country recently, and corporate activities are also being promoted on the ground to respond to this movement. Through its own related efforts, Daiwa Korea aims to achieve the following four goals:
- 1.Actively encourage participation in socially beneficial or charitable activities
- Consideration and introduction of social contribution activity programs, granting of compensatory days off to staff who participate in weekend activities
- 2.Create a workplace environment that is supportive of women and working mothers
- Establishment of employee welfare measures at each stage of pregnancy/childbirth/child-rearing, namely: adjusted working hours for pregnant women and granting of house call time at the discretion of the department manager; establishment of nursing rooms and granting of nursing time
- Establishment of maternity leave (three months under the law) and long maternity leave (one year under company regulations) and introduction of flexible working hours (for women who have early elementary school-aged children to support them in continuing their work)
- 3.Encourage employees to leave work on time and take annual leave for the realization of work-life balance
- Requiring submission to management of a plan for taking annual leave by the end of each period
- 4.Improve employee welfare measures
- Provision of financial subsidies for self-development activities such as foreign language classes and for health promotion and maintenance programs including those provided by fitness gyms, etc.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the company has been actively encouraging all employees to work from home while making efforts to ensure both business continuity and employee safety. Daiwa Korea will continue to make broad-based contributions to South Korean society and respond to social demands by engaging in these and other sustainability activities.
