DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), Qatar’s leading Islamic bank, was recently recognised by Global Finance as the ‘Best Islamic Retail Bank’ in the world. The award reinforces QIB’s prominent position in international Islamic finance. QIB has also been awarded the ‘Best Islamic Bank’ in Qatar, its home country.
The awards were given on the strength of QIB’s financial performance, its embrace of cutting-edge banking technologies, and its customer-centric approach to both its product offering and the overall banking experience.
Each year, Global Finance magazine, a respected source of finance industry data for global and emerging markets, releases its list of the Best Islamic Finance Institutions in the World. To select each year’s winners, the editorial team of Global Finance confers with industry experts, assesses financial performance metrics, and factors in additional criteria such as a bank’s reputation and customers satisfaction. The goal of the assessment is to identify those institutions that dependably meet their clients’ needs while promoting further the development of Islamic finance. The result is a distinguished list that includes the banks with which customers around the world prefer to do business with.
“QIB is honoured to receive such high commendation from Global Finance and we are proud of our achievements that led to be recognised as the “Best Islamic Retail Bank” on a global scale. We want our clients to enjoy banking with us and these awards reflect our success in that regard”, said Bassel Gamal, Group CEO of QIB.
“We continuously work to improve the customer experience and to offer our customers the exact products and services that satisfy their specific financial needs. To that regard, we also offer segmented propositions like our “Tamayuz: (Affluent) programme, QIB Private Banking, and our award-winning “Aamaly” proposition tailored for the needs of Small and Medium enterprises.”
QIB recently modernised its four largest branches and is engaged in a phased rollout of the updated design at its other key branches. The new design reflects a modern interpretation of the traditional Islamic values of purity, simplicity and transparency. Each branch has a special section set aside for the bank’s valued Tamayuz clients, and a separate area for female customers to enjoy complete privacy.
In April 2016, Fitch Ratings has affirmed QIB’s Long Term Issuer Default Rating at ‘A+’ with a stable outlook reflecting the Bank’s established franchise in Qatar, its sound asset quality, solid funding and liquidity profile.
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