At 2023 BusinessDay BAFI Awards
Fidelity Bank Plc has once again been recognized as the Export Finance Bank of the Year at the BusinessDay and Other Financial Institutions (BAFI) Awards 2023. The award ceremony was held at Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos on Saturday, 28 October 2023.
BusinessDay Media Limited, the award organizers, stated that the BAFI Awards is the benchmark of distinction for institutions in the Nigerian financial services sector. The awards recognize and celebrate organizations that excel in the delivery of financial services in Nigeria.
Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, MD/CEO of Fidelity Bank Plc, expressed her gratitude for the recognition and dedicated the award to the bank’s customers who rely on them to provide the right support for operating effectively in the global non-oil exports market space. She further reiterated the bank’s commitment to empowering individuals, businesses, and economies to prosper.
Recently, the bank hosted the second edition of its non-oil exports expo, Fidelity International Trade and Creative Connect (FITCC), in Houston, Texas, United States of America. The FITCC Houston featured exhibitions by more than 160 Nigeria and US-based businesses, as well as panel sessions where stakeholders engaged on strategies to increase the pipeline of Nigerian businesses that export into the US market.
At the FITCC Houston, 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 exports space.
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.
L-R: Executive Director/Chief Risk Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Kevin Ugwuoke; Group Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Africa Group, Mrs. Toyin Sanni; and Executive Director, Lagos/South West Business, Fidelity Bank Plc, Dr Ken Opara at the BusinessDay and Other Financial Institutions’ (BAFI) Awards 2023 where Fidelity Bank received the award of the “Export Finance Bank of the Year”…over the Weekend.
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 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.
