KENANGA INVESTMENT BANK BERHAD 130 INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2025 ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE STATEMENT OUR COMMITMENT TO ETHICAL CONDUCT AND GOVERNANCE Ethics and compliance remain fundamental to how Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad and Its Subsidiaries (“Kenanga Group” or “the Group”) conduct business. They underpin the Group’s governance framework, guide decision-making, and support sustainable value creation for stakeholders. In an increasingly complex regulatory environment marked by heightened stakeholder expectations and evolving regulatory developments, the Group continues to uphold ethical conduct, integrity, and accountability. These principles are integrated within the Group’s governance structures, policies and operational practices, ensuring that compliance is not a standalone obligation but an integral part of business conduct. Throughout 2025, the Group maintained ethical standards, strengthening compliance discipline and cultivating a culture where integrity is demonstrated consistently in behaviour, decision-making, and outcomes. COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE The Group’s ethics and compliance framework is supported by a coordinated governance and operating model under the Group Compliance and Ethics (“GCE”) function. This framework is designed to provide effective oversight, ensure regulatory compliance, promote ethical conduct, and support consistent application of policies and standards across the Group. In 2025, the GCE function comprised four specialised departments, each with distinct but complementary roles. Together, these departments support the Board and Senior Management in discharging their oversight responsibilities and in embedding ethics and compliant practices across the Group’s operations and culture. While each department has distinct responsibilities, the effectiveness of the ethics and compliance framework is underpinned by close collaboration across the GCE function, as well as other control and assurance functions. This integrated approach supports consistent management of ethics, compliance, conduct, and regulatory risks across the organisation. Develops, implements and provides oversight to ensure the Group’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations, regulatory guidelines, and internal policies for all regulated activities. Responsible for establishing and maintaining Group’s frameworks to prevent, detect, and manage financial crime risks related to money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation financing and targeted financial sanctions. Provides oversight and regulatory advisory support to ensure alignment with applicable regulatory requirements and standards as well as supervisory expectations. Drives the Group’s ethics and integrity agenda by promoting ethical conduct, advising on matters relating to integrity, responsible for the speak-up framework within the Group and fostering a culture of accountability and responsible decision-making. Group Compliance (“GC”) Group Regulatory Affairs (“GRA”) Group Financial Crime Compliance (“GFCC”) Group Business Ethics and Integrity (“GBEI”)
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