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Ethiopia

Awash Bank greatly expanded its digital solutions last year, achieving high levels of engagement across mobile and internet banking.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

Africa’s best bank for corporate responsibility: Equity Bank Kenya

Equity Bank Kenya claims its mission is to empower clients and stakeholders, both socially and economically.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence: Best bank in Vietnam: Techcombank

Techcombank further solidified its leadership in Vietnam’s banking sector in 2023. This has been driven by its five-year transformation journey focusing on investments in digital, data and talent under chief executive Jens Lottner, who took the helm in 2020.

July 19, 2024

Morocco

Attijariwafa Bank remains the bank to beat in Morocco. In a year that saw profits grow 20% to Dh13.8 billion ($1.4 billion), it has focused its efforts on promoting private investment in the country.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

North America’s best bank for financing: Morgan Stanley

Some capital markets franchises make their name for sheer volume, topping the deal rankings by simply being everywhere. Others take a different tack, picking spots where they know they excel and then doing so. For yet again being on some of the most challenging and intellectually demanding deals in the review period, Morgan Stanley is North America’s best bank for financing.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence: Best investment bank in the UK – Barclays

Barclays wins the award as the UK’s best investment bank. Even though some investors had to wait for the bank’s investor day in February 2024 to hear it once again reaffirm its commitment to the investment bank, staff in the UK had no doubt of this.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence: Best bank for corporates in Nigeria – First Bank of Nigeria

First Bank of Nigeria (FirstBank) wins the best bank for corporates award this year for its investment in digital, support of sustainability and the financial performance it has delivered.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence: Best bank for diversity and inclusion in Taiwan: Bank SinoPac

Bank SinoPac has long focused on initiatives to promote responsible and inclusive finance, primarily by channelling loans to small businesses. The total outstanding of such lending to small and medium-sized enterprises was NT$325 billion ($10 billion) at the end of 2023.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

CEE’s best investment bank: Citi

In investment banking, the biggest event of the year was the €2 billion IPO of Hidroelectrica in Romania, Europe’s biggest IPO in 2023. This was Romania’s largest-ever IPO and played a role in reopening the market across the continent, thanks to a strong performance in the secondary market. It also helped reawaken the international capital market to the opportunities in central and eastern Europe.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

Asia’s best bank: HSBC

For the second year in a row, HSBC walks away with the award for Asia’s best bank – and deservedly so. Outgoing chief executive Noel Quinn’s decisive move in early 2020 to pivot to Asia by redeploying $100 billion in risk-weighted assets has delivered, generating strong new income streams and squeezing more gains from key product lines such as wealth management and transaction banking.

July 19, 2024

Awards for Excellence

North America’s best bank for wealth management: JPMorgan Private Bank

As in so many other areas of the bank’s franchise, JPMorgan’s wealth management performance in 2023 was a good illustration of the unique qualities of the US’s preeminent banking institution. It is North America’s best bank for wealth management.

July 19, 2024

Italy

Market doubts, three years ago, about whether Andrea Orcel’s management of UniCredit would be sufficiently orientated to shareholder value have proven to be far from the mark. Orcel might have shied away from a deal with the Italian government to buy Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in 2021, but this has not prevented UniCredit from remaining a large and growing part of the European banking story.

July 19, 2024

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