Value creation for the future

Contribute to the prosperity of our society and the future of the Earth

Social issues to be addressed

Addressing global environmental issues including weather disasters due to climate change and the loss of natural capital is an urgent challenge for corporate management. For the next generations, it will also be more necessary for financial institutions to work to develop new financial literacy among the public, about such things as electronic payments and digital currencies, in addition to preventing financial crimes and frauds.

Vision

To hand over the future of the Earth and society to future generations, we, as a corporate citizen, a financial institution, and a member of the Seven & i Group, will work on solutions to various issues that will allow companies, our society, and the planet to be sustainable.

Seven Bank's Major Initiatives

Promoting Financial Education for the Next Generation and Initiatives for Future Generations
Ensuring No One is Left Behind
Enhancing Initiatives to Cope with Environmental Issues

Promoting Financial Education for the Next Generation and Initiatives for Future Generations

Providing a Financial Education Program for Elementary Schools

With changes in the Course of Study and financial education being introduced to the next generation in stages, Seven Bank has provided a financial education program to more than 2,000 elementary school students nationwide through a classroom education program called SENSEI Yononakagaku, provided by ARROWS Inc.

The program was designed to allow students to think about money from their own point of view, such as thinking about making a plan for how to use pocket money during a school trip. The program was well received by teachers who said that the program helps students to think about the value of money through trial and error and was educational content useful for social life. Participating students also gave us feedback that they learned points they should be careful when shopping so they found the program useful for their future.

Hosting a seminar about prevention of financial crimes for junior high- and high school students

Amid the ever-evolving crafty and frequent financial crimes, fraudulent account openings and bank account trading intended for use in fraud and money laundering never stop. Especially recently, many cases in which the young generation, including minors, were carelessly involved in bank account trading, a criminal action, via social media, etc., occurred, becoming a social issue.

Aiming to prevent such financial crimes, Seven Bank launched an initiative to provide seminars about financial crime by dispatching an employee from the Financial Crime Risk Control Division to schools, mainly targeting junior high- and high-school students.

Now, we have engaged in raising awareness of bank account trading and the consequences of being involved in financial crimes among students in cooperation with police and other responsible institutions. We have conducted seminars at about 10 schools so far as of July 2024. With the public and private sectors working together, we will continue to strive to prevent financial crime through providing accurate knowledge to the digital-native generation who will lead into the future.

Ensuring No One is Left Behind

Initiative to Publish “Mori no Senshi Bonolon” Picture Books and Distribute Copies of the Books for Free

Seven Bank has supported the initiative to distribute copies of “Mori no Senshi (Guardian of the Forest) Bonolon” picture book series for free at 7-Eleven stores, etc., since 2005.

Our sponsorship of this initiative is rooted in our wish to distribute picture books for free to children to avoid a situation where children cannot read books even though they want to, and we have received warm support from a wide variety of advocates. We have also supported book reading activities as a part of our effort, and have prepared large-size picture books which are useful for book reading events for a large audience.

Through our support for “Mori no Senshi Bonolon,” we will continue to contribute to affluent society and the global future.

Holding Seven Bank Charity Campaign

Voice guidance service is available at Seven Bank ATMs to assist visually impaired persons to use ATM services. This opened up an opportunity for us starting in 2010 to cooperate with Nippon Broadcasting System’s “Radio Charity Musicthon,” a charity which collects funds to install audible traffic signals enabling visually impaired persons to walk streets with peace of mind.

Every year from December to January, we conduct the "Seven Bank Charity Campaign," during which we accept donations to the Radio Charity Musicthon through various methods, such as accepting donations via our ATMs and click-based donations.

Starting Service for Fund-raising Through Seven Bank ATMs

Seven Bank started a service for collecting funds through ATMs in 2021 on behalf of organizations engaging in social issues. The service was drawn from our wish that we can contribute to linking people and the society by utilizing Seven Bank ATMs as donation boxes since they are conveniently accessible in customers’ everyday life. We have made the fund-raising service permanently available for five organizations as well as emergency fund-raising in case of major disasters starting FY2023.
Donations have steadily grown in terms of the number and the amount since the service started. Providing the service allows us to realize that a lot of our customers are willing to contribute to society through fund-raising. Seven Bank will continue to pursue initiatives to solve social issues together with its customers.

【Organizations to which you can donate (as of July 31, 2024)】

Seven-Eleven Memorial Foundation, Japan Committee for UNICEF, Médecins Sans Frontières Japan, Japanese Red Cross Society, World Wide Fund for Nature Japan

*Organizations to which you can donate through the ATMs are subject to change. Please check the ATM display when you donate.

Enhancing Initiatives to Cope with Environmental Issues

Initiatives for Climate Change

The Seven Bank Group recognizes the issue of climate change as one of its management material issues understanding that global warming severely affects the sustainability of companies.
The Seven Bank Group expressed an endorsement of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in December 2021. In 2023, it conducted a scenario analysis to measure the impact of climate change risks and opportunities on our core ATM platform business. We analyzed the impact of climate change on our business activities and revenues, etc., and are taking specific measures, while enhancing information disclosure to stakeholders

Fourth-generation ATMs with Smaller Energy Consumption

The fourth-generation ATMs released in 2019 reduce power consumption by 40% compared to the third-generation ATMs. This was enabled by not only enhancing functions and performance when developing new ATMs but also by aiming to increase contribution to the society and environment. In order to aim for future ATMs which ensure sustainability while adopting highly functional components such as a reader for facial recognition and Individual Number Cards, we are also striving to reduce the environmental burden in ATM development through reconsideration of ATM circuit design and thorough selection of low power-consumption parts in cooperation with our business partners.

Reuse ATMs in Cooperation with NEC

Seven Bank and NEC Corporation (hereinafter NEC) jointly engage in the reuse of ATMs, striving for the effective use of resources.

Seven Bank ATMs are built with recycled materials from the design stage and are designed to allow replacement of individual parts and maintenance in the event of a malfunction. NEC collects ATMs which were removed due to renovation and closures of stores, thoroughly cleans the sensors and the interior, and conducts performance checks. This enables the reuse of ATMs.

Through these efforts, a total of more than 13,000 ATMs have been reused. We also reuse some ATMs as parts. ATMs considered unrecyclable due to aging are recycled as resources through recycling business operators. We achieve a recycling rate of approximately 100% for ATMs through these initiatives, enabling sustainable ATMs.

Toward Environmentally-friendly Cash Transportation

We are working in cooperation with SOHGO SECURITY SERVICES CO.,LTD. for the transportation of cash and on the spot response in case of failure for ATMs. As part of our effort to reduce our overall environmental burden, we are working towards making cash delivery vehicles both safer and lighter, while at the same time promoting the adoption of environmentally-friendly vehicles. In addition, using AI data analysis we are making plans for optimal transportation of cash, taking a variety of measures to reduce our CO2 emissions

Using Data Centers with High Environmental Performance

We have been able to achieve a rate of 100% renewable energy sources for the electricity used at the Seven Bank data centers* provided by Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., and we have obtained ISO 14001 certification, the international standard for environmental management systems. Our high environmental performance data centers are designed and built with efficient and flexible air conditioning, and currently, our data centers have zero CO2 emissions related to energy consumption.

*The Company’s data centers are two domestic data centers provided by Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. and a public cloud platform provided by Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.