Managing our Operational Footprint
As we grow, we are looking to manage our offices and branches in an efficient and sustainable manner.
We are focusing on reducing our energy use and paper wastage by using renewable energy to manage and limit our carbon footprint.
Through Oracle Cloud, a self-service requisitioning application that controls spending, we create, manage, and track orders digitally to replace manual paper-based requests. This has also slashed procurement costs by cutting transaction overhead, controlling spending, and realizing the full value of the preferred supplier agreement.
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Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation
We contribute resources, both financial and human, towards supporting the Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation (“MJSF”).
Founded in 2003, MJSF was established by Mr. Jahangir Siddiqui and his wife, Mrs. Mahvash Siddiqui, a retired civil servant, and a university professor. MJSF is a leading charitable, non-profit, non-partisan organization primarily focusing on healthcare, education, sustainable development through social enterprise and humanitarian relief. Through its various initiatives, MJSF aims to build an educated, healthy and prosperous society with dignity and honor for people by providing healthcare, education and promoting economic and social development of underprivileged members of our society.
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Climate Finance Accreditation
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a unique global initiative to respond to climate change by investing in low-emission and climate-resilient development.
We have completed its accreditation application for becoming a direct-access accredited entity of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). With the approval of its accreditation application, JS Bank is the first commercial bank in Pakistan to become a GCF-accredited entity and would be among the ranks of global banking institutions such as MUFG, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Agricole.
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Women’s Action Forum
Women’s Action Forum was launched on International Women’s Day in 2018. The aim of the Forum was to create a platform for women
to raise issues pertaining to the work environment at JS Bank in order to encourage women to work in the financial sector by reducing employment and wage gaps between females and males and encouraging more women to achieve higher management grades at JS Bank. It seeks to empower female employees to build their careers within the Bank, exchange ideas with other female employees, identify barriers to advancement and create meaningful change.
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