Fidelity Bank Plc’s export leadership has been recognized with the bank’s selection as Export Finance Bank of the Year at the BusinessDay and Other Financial Institutions (BAFI) Awards 2023.
The prize was handed to the bank at a lavish dinner event on Saturday, October 28, 2023, at the Lagos Continental Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos.
“The BAFI Awards are the gold standard for institutions in the Nigerian financial services sector.” “Now in its tenth year, the award recognizes and celebrates organizations that excel in the delivery of financial services in Nigeria,” said the event’s organizers, BusinessDay Media Limited.
Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, MD/CEO of Fidelity Bank Plc, commented on the honor, saying,
“We are grateful for this recognition and dedicate the award to our customers who rely on us to provide the right support for operating effectively in the global non-oil exports market space.
As a bank, we remain committed to our goal of helping individuals grow, inspiring businesses to thrive and empowering economies to prosper.”
It would be recalled that the bank recently hosted the second edition of its non-oil exports expo tagged the Fidelity International Trade and Creative Connect (FITCC) in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
At the two-day event, the bank signed a cocoa pre-export deal with AFREXIM Bank and JohnVents Industries worth 40 million dollars which has been adjudged as a landmark development by analysts in the export space.
FITCC Houston also featured exhibitions by more than 160 Nigeria and US-based businesses as well as panel sessions as stakeholders engaged in strategies to increase the pipeline of Nigerian businesses that export into the US market.
In recognition of the bank’s commitment to fostering bilateral trade and economic development between Nigeria and the USA through its FITCC initiative, the Mayor of the City of Houston, Sylvester Turner, proclaimed October 25, 2023, as FITCC Day in Houston Texas.
Ranked as one of the best banks in Nigeria, Fidelity Bank is a full-fledged customer commercial bank with over 8 million customers serviced across its 251 business offices in Nigeria and the United Kingdom as well as on digital banking channels.
The bank has won multiple local and international awards including the Best Payment Solution Provider Nigeria 2023 and Best SME Bank Nigeria 2022 by the Global Banking and Finance Awards; Best Bank for SMEs in Nigeria by the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2023; and Best Domestic Private Bank in Nigeria by the Euromoney Global Private Banking Awards 2023.
