SeABank affirms its social responsibility at the Vietnam ESG Awards and Trusted Brand Vietnam 2025

New ESG milestone

On December 22, 2025, at the 2nd Vietnam ESG Awards ceremony organized by Dan Tri Newspaper, SeABank was honored among the Top 32 outstanding enterprises nationwide. Notably, the Bank was one of six organizations recognized in the Social (S) category, receiving the title “Outstanding Bank in Spreading ESG Values to the Community.”  

Within the framework of the Vietnam ESG Forum 2025 initiated by Dan Tri Newspaper, the awards are among the most specialized honors recognizing enterprises with effective ESG implementation. In 2025, the evaluation criteria were deeply standardized, focusing on measuring real impact through concrete indicators, achieved outcomes, and monitoring mechanisms.

Previously, SeABank’s Visa SeASoul 2in1 card was honored by Vietnam Economic Times (VnEconomy) among the Top 10 Pioneer Products and Services 2025 under the Trusted Brand Vietnam award. Initiated by VnEconomy in 2006, the annual award ceremony recognizes high-quality products and services that contribute to a transparent and sustainable consumer market. The 2025 award ceremony themed “True Value – Real Trust” highlights the role of businesses in creating true values and fostering long-term customer trust. This is the 10th time SeABank has been recognized by this prestigious award, reaffirming the Bank’s strong reputation and market’s enduring trust in the SeABank brand.

Consistently advancing social responsibility

Guided by the vision of “Putting people and communities first”, SeABank has been pursuing a sustainability strategy centered on ESG, with social responsibility as one of the core pillars. The Bank has implemented a wide range of impactful initiatives and programs to create and spread sustainable value for customers, employees, and society at large, contributing to the development of an equitable, inclusive, and sustainably prosperous society in line with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For customers, SeABank adopts a segmented service approach to fulfill diverse needs, maximize benefits, and accompany customers in creating sustainable economic values. A notable example is Visa SeASoul 2in1 card, co-issued by SeABank and singer My Tam, which is developed in line with modern, lifestyle-oriented and personalized financial trends. The product simultaneously addresses payment and expense management needs while enriching customers’ emotional experiences, and further spreads meaningful values through its charitable features, conveying the message “Wholehearted Appreciation – Genuine Connection.”

In parallel, the Bank places strong emphasis on advancing inclusive finance for women, women-owned enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), facilitating access to financial resources. Through these efforts, SeABank contributes to fostering an equitable business environment and strengthening economic empowerment toward a more sustainable and inclusive economy.

or employees, SeABank prioritizes developing a high-quality workforce within a respectful, humane, and inclusive working environment, supported by transparent human resource policies, competitive remuneration, and clear career development pathways standardized under the consultancy of international partner Mercer – Talentnet. To foster motivation and collective engagement, the Bank has cultivated a connected and people-centric corporate culture, with the ambition of becoming a leading bank in organizational culture. As a result of diverse internal engagement programs and a positive environment, employee satisfaction at SeABank reached 90.37%, while 90.5% of employees expressed their intention to continue working with the Bank for at least the next two years.

To extend positive values to the wider community, SeABank has consistently fostered a strong community-oriented culture across its entire system through the regular activities of four internal charitable funds: SeADreams (education), SeAGreen (environment), SeALove (social security), and SeASmile (charity). This is a long-term journey of compassion and shared humanity, through which nearly VND250 billion has been contributed, more than one million trees have been planted, over 1,800 homes have been newly built or renovated, nearly 220 underprivileged children have been supported to continue their education, and tens of thousands of gifts have been delivered to those in need. These impactful initiatives are implemented with clear orientation and defined objectives, generating practical value across multiple social dimensions, including poverty alleviation, education, healthcare, environmental protection, and ecosystem preservation.

Dual honors at the Vietnam ESG Awards and Trusted Brand Viet Nam 2025 affirm SeABank’s commitment to ESG implementation, particularly the Social (S) pillar. Motivated by market trust and a strong aspiration to create shared value for customers and the wider community, SeABank will continue to pursue a people- and community-centered sustainable development strategy, contributing to a more equitable, prosperous, and happy society.