UT Bank has been adjudged the 2011 Bank of the Year at a ceremony held Saturday night at the Accra International Conference Centre.
The bank won two other awards: Best bank � IT/Electronic banking and Best Bank � Financial Performance � out of the 18 categories that were up for grabs. Unibank snatched the highest of all the 25 banks going home with four awards.
Unibank won the Best Bank � Corporate Banking, Best Bank Customer Care, Best Bank � Trade Finance and Best Bank � Advisory Services. Prudential Bank grabbed two laurels as the Best Bank � Long Term Loan Financing and Best Bank � Medium Term Loan Financing whiles Ecobank and Zenith Bank took the Best Bank in Competitive Pricing and Best Bank � Most Socially Responsible Bank respectively.
The Ghana Banking Awards is a vehicle to showcase and applaud best performing banks in various categories of the Ghanaian financial services market.
Below are the categories and corresponding winners:
1. Bank of the Year >> UT Bank
2. Best Bank - Corporate Banking >> Unibank
3. Best Bank - Retail Banking >> CAL Bank
4. Best bank � IT/Electronic banking >> UT bank
5. Best growing bank >> Fidelity Bank 6. Best bank customer care >> Unibank
7. Best Bank - Product Innovation >> No winner.
8. Best Bank - Most Socially Responsible Bank >> Zenith Bank
9. Best Bank � Competitive pricing >> Ecobank
10. Best Bank - Financial Performance >> UT Bank
11. Best bank � Trade Finance >> Unibank
12. Best bank � Advisory services >> Unibank
13. Best bank � Short term loan financing >> UBA
14. Best Bank - Long Term Loan Financing >> Prudential Bank
15. Best bank � Medium term loan financing >> Prudential Bank
16. Best Bank - Export Finance >>
17. Best Bank - Agriculture Financing >> No winner
18. Special Award - Best Bank, Mobile Banking >> No winner