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Portugal

The fourth-biggest bank in Portugal, which has been fully owned by Spain’s CaixaBank since the end of 2018, saw an exceptional performance in 2023. After record results for the firm across the board, Banco BPI is clear winner of the award for Portugal’s best bank.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

North America’s best digital bank: Bank of America

North America’s Best Digital Bank: Bank of America

July 19, 2024

Sierra Leone

Ecobank Sierra Leone recorded double-digit growth in its commercial banking operations last year, with gross loans to business customers up by 45% to $11.8 million. Customer deposits were up by 3%, reaching $25.7 million.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

Asia’s best investment bank: Citi

To be the best investment bank in the fastest growing continent you can’t just be here or there, you must be everywhere.

July 19, 2024

Kosovo

Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo is the country’s best bank after a year in which it introduced of a series of new and enhanced products across its banking businesses, materially grew its client base and generated a record net profit.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

Western Europe’s best bank for sustainable finance: Crédit Agricole

Since its foundation in 1885 as a cooperative and mutual bank, social usefulness has been central to Crédit Agricole’s business model. It was an early pioneer of sustainable finance. It was one of the first banks to commit to exiting the thermal coal industry by 2030 in OECD countries and by 2040 for the rest of the world.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

Africa’s best bank: Standard Bank

For the second year in a row, Standard Bank walks away with the award for the best bank in Africa. And for good reason.

July 19, 2024

Belgium

The Belgian government’s retail bond programme last year, which pressured lenders to raise deposits, was just one element of a relatively tough environment for banks in Belgium. The country also sits at the opposite end of the spectrum to southern Europe in terms of the proportion of loans on floating-rate deals, meaning local banks benefit less from higher eurozone interest rates.

July 19, 2024

Albania

Raiffeisen Bank is Albania’s best bank this year in recognition of its retail, corporate and treasury banking services, and its strong financial performance during the year. This was demonstrated across product and service enhancements in its main three banking businesses.

July 19, 2024

Uzbekistan

Benefiting from robust economic growth in the country, Uzbekistan’s banking sector continued its rapid expansion last year and one bank led the pack, SQB, the country’s second largest lender.

July 19, 2024

Guatemala

The Guatemalan economy had a turbulent time in 2023. The election of Bernardo Arevalo in early 2024 should improve relations with the US and potentially lift the country’s economic outlook, but the social challenges that have plagued Guatemala through times of economic expansion and contraction alike are resistant to superficial measures.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

CEE’s best bank for transaction services: UniCredit

Transaction services are a vital part of UniCredit’s rationale as a pan-European bank, and its leadership in this area is particularly evident in central and eastern Europe, where the bank’s regional head of transactions and payments is Riccardo Madinelli.

July 19, 2024

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