KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 (Bernama) — CEOs from FINCO’s Board of Directors recently took on the role of virtual volunteers in primary and secondary schools across Malaysia. To kick start its CEO Volunteering Month, the Financial Industry Collective Outreach (FINCO), a collaboration between all financial institutions in Malaysia with the guidance of Bank Negara Malaysia, invited members of its’ Board to lead talks and activities which aimed to inspire primary and secondary school students to strive to achieve their full potential in life.
Financial industry volunteers are a core element of FINCO’s flagship FINCO Reads and FINCO Mentor programmes and, despite restrictions on in-person volunteering in schools, FINCO’s first CEO Volunteering Month went ahead as planned with over 120 students dialling in to ask questions and get advice from seasoned leaders from Maybank, Standard Chartered Bank, Prudential Assurance, AIG Insurance, RHB Islamic Bank and Maybank Investment Bank.