ESG and corporate responsibility
At TMF Group, we embed sustainability within our strategy to create long-term value and positive impact. Committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), we align our decarbonisation with climate science while advocating for inclusion, ethical conduct, and sustainable business practices.
As key compliance partners to our clients, an important part of our work is assisting them with following the rules.
We are committed to integrating sustainability into the way we operate and make decisions, ensuring that our actions create long-term value for our stakeholders. We do everything within our power to act correctly, every step of the way, with robust governance procedures in place to enable us to conform and continue improving.
Sustainability and the environment
TMF Group works to minimise its carbon footprint and be environmentally friendly at all of its locations around the world, across 125 offices in 87 jurisdictions.
As a signatory of the UN Global Compact, we have pledged to abide by its environmental principles, which state that businesses should:
- Support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges
- Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility
- Encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
In 2024, TMF Group received a Bronze Medal rating from Ecovadis, following a comprehensive assessment of our sustainability practices against industry peers.
Social responsibility and actions
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Operating in 87 jurisdictions, TMF Group thrives on diversity. Our people represent more than 115 nationalities, range in age from 17 to 70, and include 67% women globally. This rich mix of backgrounds and experiences enhances our ability to provide meaningful insights and high-quality service to our clients.
As an inclusive company, we reject all forms of discrimination and we strive to empower all our employees to reach their full potential, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion or belief, family or marital status, neurodiversity and/or physical disability, gender or sexual orientation.
We actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.
Beyond Boundaries - our global CSR programme
Our corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme, Beyond Boundaries, is run in conjunction with Bridge for Billions. Through it, we use our experience and skills to help social entrepreneurs develop their organisations and deliver benefits to society through their work.
The programme pairs TMF Group employees with underrepresented entrepreneurs in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific to provide high-quality entrepreneurship training and mentorship.
Our employees work with entrepreneurs during the programme, developing their skills as mentors while sharing experience and knowledge with the entrepreneurs.
This CSR programme is a meaningful way for us to bring our purpose and values to life.
Other CSR and charitable activities
TMF Island Walk
Each year, TMF Group sponsors the Island Walk around Jersey in the Channel Islands. In 2025 the walk raised more than £140,000 for an array of local charities. Hundreds of walkers, and some runners, travel all or part of the 48-mile route around the island.
Rise Against Hunger
TMF Group has partnered with Rise Against Hunger, a global movement working to end hunger through sustainable solutions. As part of this initiative, TMF Group provides both space and volunteers to package up to 10,000 meals per event, while at the same time, funding the ingredients used. These meals support nutrition, education, and health for vulnerable communities. Events are held across multiple countries, allowing employees to engage directly and contribute to a meaningful global impact.
CleanHub
As a business, we are committed to the protection of the environments in which we work and live. With this in mind, TMF Group partnered with CleanHub in 2023 to support the organisation’s mission of preventing 50% of new ocean plastic by 2030.
TMF Group’s donation supports the cause by:
- enabling their local teams to collect waste from the ocean
- helping them to develop smarter solutions for dealing with recovered waste
- educating people and companies to reduce the amount of plastics and waste we generate.
Past CSR and charitable activities
Run to Kick
In 2023, six of our EMEA countries took part in a charity running challenge to raise money for the children’s cancer charity Fight Kids Cancer. Participants from the TMF Group offices in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland and the UK raised more than €20,000.
Tree per client
Between 2022-2025, TMF Group partnered with Health in Harmony to spearhead a global CSR initiative that raised funds across several of our worldwide locations. For every new client contract secured, we donated funds to plant trees—contributing to the restoration of rainforests in Indonesia and Brazil, while also promoting better health outcomes for local communities.
Ashoka
TMF Group worked with our previous global CSR programme partner from 2021 to 2023, supporting social entrepreneurs around the world and working on initiatives with colleagues.
- Launch of a global CSR committee with 23 regional ambassadors who were trained and tasked with exploring local CSR opportunities in their jurisdictions.
- A fundraising initiative between TMF Netherlands and Health in Harmony to plant a tree for each new client onboarded (see below for more information).
- A global yoga programme, combining personal wellbeing with fundraising. TMF Group employees from 53 countries and 71 different offices took part.
- A collaboration between TMF Hong Kong and Fair Employment to promote the challenges faced by domestic workers in Hong Kong alongside the rollout of ethical solutions.
- A volunteer programme where employees from TMF China assist Stepping Stones in providing disenfranchised young people with life skills, along with psychological and social support.
- Mentors from TMF Group worked with Hola America to support social innovation projects with a focus on migration in Chile and Argentina.
Our governance procedures
An ethical approach is important to both us and our clients, with our efforts in this space are reflected in our EcoVadis rating. Our Bronze Medal award involved being assessed against multiple criteria. We have featured in the top 35% in our sector (financial and legal) for ethics since we were first rated in 2021.
We also want to work with clients who make a positive contribution to the economy and are careful to ensure they don’t pose a threat to our reputation or integrity. That means we have a strong anti-money laundering/counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework and a ‘three lines of defence’ structure. We also take into account the nature of the business each of our clients undertakes.
Ensuring our clients are compliant starts with our own organisation maintaining compliance across all areas of our global operation. In addition to the AML/CFT framework, we have a compliance monitoring plan, a risk framework that continually evaluates our services, and a robust corporate governance framework.
United Nations Global Compact
In September 2023, TMF Group joined more than 23,000 participants worldwide as a signatory of the UN Global Compact. This saw our CEO pledge that the company would abide by the ten principles of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.
TMF Group is proud to be a participant in the UN initiative. By aligning ourselves with this global movement, we reaffirm our dedication to the principles, which cover human rights, labour rights, the environment and anti-corruption.
EcoVadis Bronze Medal
Ecovadis rated TMF Group at bronze level in 2024, after conducting a detailed evaluation of our sustainability performance when compared to similar organisations.
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