{"id":40322,"date":"2020-05-25T18:50:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=40322"},"modified":"2020-05-25T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:50:24","slug":"global-finance-names-ecobank-most-innovative-bank-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/global-finance-names-ecobank-most-innovative-bank-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Finance Names Ecobank Most Innovative Bank in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Finance has named Ecobank as the most innovative bank in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at the eighth Global Finance annual awards,\u00a0the Innovators 2020, honoring entities that regularly identify new paths and design new tools in finance.<\/p>\n<p>Categories in the award include\u00a0Top Innovations\u00a0in Corporate Finance, Payments, Trade Finance, Cash Management, Islamic Finance, with Winners selected from different regions of the world.\u00a0The\u00a0classes of award comprised Most Innovative Banks\u00a0in\u00a0Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central &amp; Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America and Western Europe;\u00a0The\u00a0Most Innovative Fintech Companies in\u00a0Asia-Pacific, Central &amp; Eastern Europe, North America and Western Europe; and\u00a0The Best Financial Innovation Labs<\/p>\n<p>At the virtual awards announcement, Anita Hawser,\u00a0European Editor at Global Finance and Lead, Global Finance Awards evaluation team, noted that companies recognized at the Innovators 2020 significantly stood apart.<\/p>\n<p>She said the review panel looked at innovation in the context \u00a0of product or process innovation, as they were ultimately more concerned with the impact of innovation in terms of creating value for customers or addressing a specific need, like speeding up lending or credit review process\u00a0 for small businesses; enabling companies to deposit cheques remotely and not having to visit the branches.<\/p>\n<p>According to her,\u00a0these are innovations that significantly reduce the time or cost of companies to perform financial tasks and really transform customers\u2019\u00a0business lives helping them operate more effectively in a significantly challenging business and economic environment.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In his remark, Ade Ayeyemi, Ecobank Group CEO said: \u201cWe are pleased to be recognised as the \u201cMost Innovative Bank in Africa\u201d by\u00a0Global Finance. This attests to\u00a0 the strength of our brand in multiple countries across Africa, our unique pan-African platform, and our innovative banking products and solutions made possible by the success of our digital transformation journey.<\/p>\n<p>With a larger African footprint than any other bank operating in West, Central, East and Southern Africa, Ecobank is the only bank that has banking operations that spans 33\u00a0 African countries, operating a truly integrated African network. That is One unified integrated Ecobank Mobile Banking App, that works seamlessly across all 33 operating countries in Africa; One Ecobank Omni and Omni Lite serving\u00a0 Multinationals and SMEs in Africa; One Rapidtransfer app that breaks down country borders and allows the diaspora community send money directly to their loved ones, instantly and affordably across Africa; One Ecobank Online Banking platform that can be easily accessed across 33 African countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecobank Group\u2019s unique and largest pan-African platform is designed to help unlock the opportunities of the continent, for the benefit of the continent, through standardization, thereby enabling regional integration, and trade and investment across borders.<\/p>\n<p>With the Group\u2019s sterling performance, it has been severally recognized as \u2018Best Retail Bank in Africa 2019\u2019 at African Banker Awards; Most Admired Financial Services Brand in Africa 2019 by Brand Africa 100; Best Digital Bank in Africa \u2013 2017 by Euromoney Awards; Best Retail Bank and Innovation in Banking both in 2018 by the African Banker Awards\u00a0amongst others.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Finance has named Ecobank as the most innovative bank in Africa.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7015],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-40322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-ecobank-most-innovative-bank-in-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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