ZENITH BANK NAMED NIGERIA’S BEST BANK AT EUROMONEY AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2025

Zenith Bank Plc has been named “Nigeria’s Finest Financial institution” on the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2025, rising as Nigeria’s standout performer, and clinching the most important and most coveted nation award. The award, which was offered to the financial institution on Thursday, July 17, 2025 at The Peninsula, London, is a testomony to its dedication to delivering distinctive banking providers, progressive merchandise and superior worth to its prospects and shareholders.

Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence are one of the extremely coveted awards that matter to banks and bankers who matter. The annual Awards for Excellence celebrates monetary establishments that reveal management, innovation, and resilience of their markets, with this 12 months’s version seeing a document variety of over 770 entries from world class monetary establishments together with HSBC, Morgan Stanley, CitiBank, Barclays, Normal Financial institution and Growth Financial institution of Singapore (DBS), amongst others.

Commenting on the award, the Group Managing Director/Chief Government of Zenith Bank Plc, Dame Dr. Adaora Umeoji, OON mentioned, “We’re completely thrilled to be acknowledged as Nigeria’s Finest Financial institution by Euromoney. This award isn’t just a testomony to our relentless pursuit of excellence, but additionally a validation of the unwavering belief and confidence our prospects have positioned in us. We’re as soon as once more reminded that our success isn’t just about us, however in regards to the influence we proceed to have on the monetary ecosystem. We’ll proceed to work tirelessly to help the expansion and growth of our financial system and uphold the best requirements of governance, integrity and transparency that has earned us this recognition”.

She devoted the award to Zenith Bank’s prospects throughout the globe for his or her loyalty, and to the Founder and Chairman, Jim Ovia, CFR, for his visionary management and dedication to excellence which shaped the inspiration for the financial institution’s successes.  She additionally thanked the Board for his or her steerage, in addition to the workers for his or her unwavering dedication to constructing a formidable and greatest in school world monetary establishment that may outlive generations.

Zenith Bank’s monitor document of fantastic efficiency has continued to earn the model quite a few awards together with being recognised because the Quantity One Financial institution in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital for the sixteenth consecutive 12 months within the 2025 Prime 1000 World Banks Rating, revealed by The Banker. The Financial institution was additionally awarded Financial institution of the Yr (Nigeria) in The Banker’s Financial institution of the Yr Awards for 2020, 2022 and 2024; Finest Financial institution in Nigeria from 2020 to 2022, 2024 and 2025, within the World Finance World’s Finest Banks Awards; Finest Financial institution for Digital Options in Nigeria within the Euromoney Awards 2023; and was listed within the World Finance Prime 100 World Corporations in 2023.

Additional recognitions embody Finest Industrial Financial institution, Nigeria for 5 consecutive years from 2021 to 2025 within the World Finance Banking Awards and Most Sustainable Financial institution, Nigeria within the Worldwide Banker 2023 and 2024 Banking Awards. Moreover, Zenith Bank has been acknowledged because the Finest Company Governance Financial institution, Nigeria, within the World Finance Company Governance Awards for 4 consecutive years from 2022 to 2025 and ‘Finest in Company Governance’ Monetary Providers’ Africa for 4 consecutive years from 2020 to 2023 by the Moral Boardroom.

The Financial institution’s dedication to excellence noticed it being named the Most Helpful Banking Model in Nigeria in The Banker’s Prime 500 Banking Manufacturers for 2020 and 2021, Financial institution of the Yr 2023 and 2024 on the BusinessDay Banks and Different Monetary Establishments (BAFI) Awards, and Retail Financial institution of the Yr for 3 consecutive years from 2020 to 2022 and in 2024 on the BAFI Awards. The Financial institution additionally obtained the accolades of Finest Industrial Financial institution, Nigeria and Finest Innovation in Retail Banking, Nigeria, within the Worldwide Banker 2022 Banking Awards.

Zenith Bank was additionally named Most Accountable Organisation in Africa, Finest Firm in Transparency and Reporting and Finest Firm in Gender Equality and Girls Empowerment on the SERAS CSR Awards Africa 2024; Financial institution of the Yr 2024 by ThisDay Newspaper; Financial institution of the Yr 2024 by New Telegraph Newspaper; and Finest in MSME Commerce Finance, 2023 by Nairametrics. The Financial institution’s Hybrid Supply was additionally adjudged ‘Rights Subject/ Public Supply of the Yr’ on the Nairametrics Capital Market Alternative Awards 2025.