Company: SYBT
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-007118
Chunk: 24

Company: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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PORATE RESPONSIBILITY</div>

Stock Yards Bank is a community bank built on strong core values of trust, character, integrity, sound judgment, personal accountability and respect for others. We are committed to serving our customers’ needs and helping them to achieve their financial goals. Likewise, we are committed to being a good neighbor and investing in the communities in which we live and work, and to supporting our fellow team members by cultivating a healthy work environment in which they can grow and succeed together and individually. This means providing the products and services necessary to help our individual customers and their families reach their financial goals, assisting our business customers to grow and expand their businesses and extending access to banking and financial resources to all segments of our communities, including the underbanked. We recognize that environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) principles are important to delivering on those commitments and maintaining our core values.

In 2022, we published our inaugural Corporate Responsibility Report and third report in March 2024. The report identifies our ongoing practices and recent accomplishments in the areas of environmental risk and impact management, social responsibility, including diversity, equity and inclusion, and governance. It highlights many of the initiatives occurring both within the Bank and in our communities to promote the interests of our various stakeholders – our customers, team members, communities and shareholders. We encourage you to review the entire report, which is available on our website at www.syb.com.Neither our Corporate Responsibility Report nor any other content appearing on our website is deemed to be a part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Proxy Statement.

Highlights of our ESG efforts are summarized below:

Governance and Accountability

| ● | All officers and employees are required to adhere to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and annually affirm their continued understanding and compliance with its principles and guidelines. |

| ● | Employees receive regular quarterly reminders of our “Do the Right Thing” policy and their responsibility to report questionable business practices. |

| ● | We provide a third-party hotline for employees to report concerns about questionable business or financial practices anonymously and without fear of retaliation or dismissal. |

Responsibility to Our Customers

| ● | We extended customer access to financial products and services with convenient digital banking tools, including online banking, mobile banking, text banking and telebanking in English and Spanish. |

| ● | Our website is ADA accessible and includes financial calculators to improve financial literacy. |

| ● | We provide numerous learning opportunities for customers through in-person educational sessions on topics ranging from cybersecurity and fraud awareness to assisting first