“For a bank, the inclusion test extends past employment into who can hold a joint mortgage.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
Siam Commercial Bank has been operating since 1907 — Thailand's first commercial bank — across 643 branches and more than 10,000 employees.
Its diversity, equity and inclusion commitment is published in the SCBX Sustainability Report and written to cover all employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. For an institution of this age and branch density, the significance is distributional: a policy stated at group level reaches customer-facing staff in provincial branches, which is where most Thais actually encounter a bank.
Seventh at 81 points. Financial services carry a second obligation beyond employment — access to joint accounts, mortgages and credit for same-sex couples under the Marriage Equality Act — and that is where the sector's next evidence should come from.