A major Vietnamese bank, facing the complexities of GRI-aligned sustainability reporting across hundreds of branches, partnered with Aquila to digitalize and centralize its ESG data processes. We deployed an automated platform that integrates data from all locations, enabling real-time reporting, regulatory alerts, and user-friendly dashboards.
This resulted in a 50% reduction in reporting time and significant gains in efficiency.
A major commercial bank in Vietnam, with hundreds of branches, struggled to publish its sustainability reports in line with GRI standards. Coordinating a harmonized work plan across such an extensive operation required significant manual effort and resource investment. Additionally, the collection, consolidation, and validation of ESG data across multiple departments and locations demands a well-structured process, intensive training and capacity building, leading to challenges in swiftly adapting to evolving regulatory requirements.
Aquila delivered a centralized, automated data management platform designed specifically for the bank’s operational environment. The solution seamlessly integrates data from hundreds of branches, automates processing, and offers an intuitive user interface for real-time reporting and visualization. Additionally, the platform features 24/7 maintenance and built-in regulatory alerts, ensuring that responsible individuals remain updated on emerging updates and major changes from GSSB for GRI Reporting Standard.
With full automation integrated, the entire data collection and reporting process now takes only 1.5 months for all branches, representing a 50% reduction in time compared to the previous process, which took 3 months for just 20% of the branches—a transformative efficiency gain across the bank’s extensive branch network.
The automated process cut data processing time by over 50%, drastically reducing the labor and consulting costs associated with manual ESG reporting.
Centralized data management and automated validation minimized repetitive tasks and human error, ensuring more accurate and reliable reports.
The final sustainability reports, featuring clear and visually appealing tables, charts, and graphs, align with the bank’s brand identity and improve communication with both internal and external stakeholders.
Digitizing ESG reporting enabled the bank to cut costs and meet GRI standards efficiently across all branches. For large, complex organizations, centralized automation isn’t just helpful—it’s essential for scalable, high-quality sustainability reporting.