Zenith Bank Plc has been named “Nigeria’s Greatest {Bank}” 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 introduced to the {bank} on Thursday, July 17, 2025 at The Peninsula, London, is a testomony to its dedication to delivering distinctive banking providers, revolutionary merchandise and superior worth to its clients and shareholders.
Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence are one of the crucial extremely coveted awards that matter to banks and bankers who matter. The annual Awards for Excellence celebrates {financial} establishments that exhibit management, innovation, and resilience of their markets, with this yr’s version seeing a document variety of over 770 entries from world class {financial} establishments together with HSBC, Morgan Stanley, CitiBank, Barclays, Normal {Bank} and Growth {Bank} of Singapore (DBS), amongst others.
Commenting on the award, the Group Managing Director/Chief Govt of Zenith Bank Plc, Dame Dr. Adaora Umeoji, OON stated, “We’re completely thrilled to be acknowledged as Nigeria’s Greatest {Bank} by Euromoney. This award is not only a testomony to our relentless pursuit of excellence, but in addition a validation of the unwavering belief and confidence our clients have positioned in us. We’re as soon as once more reminded that our success is not only about us, however concerning the influence we proceed to have on the {financial} ecosystem. We’ll proceed to work tirelessly to assist the expansion and growth of our economic system and uphold the very best requirements of governance, integrity and transparency that has earned us this recognition”.
She devoted the award to Zenith Bank’s clients 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 fashioned the inspiration for the {bank}’s successes. She additionally thanked the Board for his or her steerage, in addition to the employees for his or her unwavering dedication to constructing a formidable and greatest at school world {financial} establishment that may outlive generations.
Zenith Bank’s observe document of fantastic efficiency has continued to earn the model quite a few awards together with being recognised because the Quantity One {Bank} in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital for the sixteenth consecutive yr within the 2025 Prime 1000 World Banks Rating, printed by The Banker. The {Bank} was additionally awarded {Bank} of the Yr (Nigeria) in The Banker’s {Bank} of the Yr Awards for 2020, 2022 and 2024; Greatest {Bank} in Nigeria from 2020 to 2022, 2024 and 2025, within the International Finance World’s Greatest Banks Awards; Greatest {Bank} for Digital Options in Nigeria within the Euromoney Awards 2023; and was listed within the World Finance Prime 100 International Corporations in 2023.
Additional recognitions embrace Greatest Industrial {Bank}, Nigeria for 5 consecutive years from 2021 to 2025 within the World Finance Banking Awards and Most Sustainable {Bank}, Nigeria within the Worldwide Banker 2023 and 2024 Banking Awards. Moreover, Zenith Bank has been acknowledged because the Greatest Company Governance {Bank}, Nigeria, within the World Finance Company Governance Awards for 4 consecutive years from 2022 to 2025 and ‘Greatest in Company Governance’ {Financial} Providers’ Africa for 4 consecutive years from 2020 to 2023 by the Moral Boardroom.
The {Bank}’s dedication to excellence noticed it being named the Most Precious Banking Model in Nigeria in The Banker’s Prime 500 Banking Manufacturers for 2020 and 2021, {Bank} of the Yr 2023 and 2024 on the BusinessDay Banks and Different {Financial} Establishments (BAFI) Awards, and Retail {Bank} of the Yr for 3 consecutive years from 2020 to 2022 and in 2024 on the BAFI Awards. The {Bank} additionally obtained the accolades of Greatest Industrial {Bank}, Nigeria and Greatest Innovation in Retail Banking, Nigeria, within the Worldwide Banker 2022 Banking Awards.
Zenith Bank was additionally named Most Accountable Organisation in Africa, Greatest Firm in Transparency and Reporting and Greatest Firm in Gender Equality and Girls Empowerment on the SERAS CSR Awards Africa 2024; {Bank} of the Yr 2024 by ThisDay Newspaper; {Bank} of the Yr 2024 by New Telegraph Newspaper; and Greatest in MSME Commerce Finance, 2023 by Nairametrics. The {Bank}’s Hybrid Supply was additionally adjudged ‘Rights Difficulty/ Public Supply of the Yr’ on the Nairametrics Capital Market Selection Awards 2025.
