Since the first caisses were established in 1900, their founder, Alphonse Desjardins, set the tone by instituting a board of supervision responsible for ensuring that officers and employees did their work in an appropriate and honest fashion.
In 1989, the caisse network put in place an explicit code of ethics. Thereafter, most of the other Group components adopted their own code of ethics. A few years later, a code with a section common to all components was adopted. In 2013, the
Desjardins Code of Professional Conduct came into effect for all components.
To find out more, see the Desjardins Code of Professional Conduct.