Nominees for the ten categories in the 2017 African Banker Awards have been announced. The larger African banks still dominate the nominees list, with banks from Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa performing strongly across the board.
The top five banks that made the list are Afreximbank, Attijariwafa Bank, (Morocco), Guaranty Trust Bank (Nigeria), Mauritius Commercial Bank (Mauritius), and Standard Bank Group (South Africa).
The Awards, which are hosted by the African Banker Magazine, will be held during the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday 23rd May at the Regency Hyatt in Ahmedabad, India.
Chair of the Awards Committee, Omar Ben Yedder, the Group Publisher and Managing Director of IC Publications Group which publishes the African Banker Magazine, said that he was once again pleasantly surprised by the caliber and strength of this year’s entries.
