By: Mohamed Konneh
The Pan African subsidiary of UBA Sierra Leone has won the UK
based magazine, The Banker’s Bank of the Year 2019 Award for Sierra
Leone on Thursday, 25th November, 2019, in London, the United Kingdom.
The Banker is the world’s premier banking and finance magazine and
online resource, providing global financial intelligence since 1926. The Banker
magazine has built its reputation for objective and incisive reporting on major
events around the globe.
The most prestigious award in the banking and financial industry
was held in London, the United Kingdom, on Thursday, 25th November, 2019. The event
tailored and highlighted the achievements of financial institutions, corporate
conglomerates, and resourceful individuals that contributed to the
transformation and development of the financial landscape especially in their
geographies.
UBA SL grabbed the covetous Bank of the Year 2019 award for having
demonstrated a high performance across various metrics in providing financial
inter-mediations and fin-tech services to the people of Sierra Leone in
2019.
According to The Banker, UBA SL has considerably changed the
banking landscape in Sierra Leone by reaching out to new customers, offering
new hi-tech, digital services, adopting inclusiveness by bringing the unbanked
into the banking space, making use of new technologies and helping to drive
growth through a stronger financial sector.
UBA SL in the last three years under the leadership of the
youthful, performance-driven and visionary MD/CEO, Chinedu Obeta, has expanded
its retail services through digital products, new facilities and a wider
consumer network, and improved access to financial services via Visa
cards/Mastercards, Prepaid cards, Savings/Business/Current accounts for
individuals, SMEs and corporate conglomerates, digital products like- LEO on
WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, POS, ; Internet banking, Mobile App, Push
& Pull Bank-Wallet service Remittances like- Western Union, Moneygram, RIA,
World Remit, Africash, Loan portfolios, Savings promos and other promos etc.
Over the years, the bank’s applications, products and services
have met strong corporate governance and its wider corporate socially policy
impact on the country as a whole.
UBA SL has demonstrated original and practical uses of innovation
and technology to provide satisfaction, excellent customer service, a more
affordable and greater access to financial services to its esteemed customers,
prospects and beyond.
UBA SL remains a socially responsible bank since inception by
giving huge financial contributions during the Ebola scourge and
Mudslide/Flooding disasters of 2014 and 2017 respectively, and material
donations to schools under its Read Africa Initiative and commiserations to
patients and hospitals, orphanages, providing sponsorship to artists and the
media and anchoring partnerships with various institutions through projects and
initiatives that have sustainable impact on the communities in Sierra Leone.
The bank continues to go beyond the philanthropic use of funds and
every so often uses its overall knowledge, resources and reputation to improve
the lives of the less privileged in society.
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