The Bank’s business records are depended upon to produce reliable and accurate reports to management, shareholders, customers, governmental entities and others.
Thus, all official records of the conduct of the Bank’s business must be accurate, honest and complete, without any restriction or qualification of any kind. This means the accuracy involves both factual documentation and ethical evaluation/appraisal.
The Bank does not condone concealing any payment by means of passing it through the books or accounts of third parties.
As in their other responsibilities, employees are expected to be honest, objective and loyal in the performance of record keeping responsibilities. However, because loyalty includes never knowingly being a part of any illegal or unethical activity, there is no excuse for a deliberately false or misleading Bank record.