Fidelity Bank Wins Export Finance Bank Of The Year Award

<h4>Fidelity Bank Wins Export Finance Bank Of The Year Award<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Nigeria- Fidelity Bank Plc&&num;8217&semi;s leadership in the exports space has once again been reaffirmed with the bank&&num;8217&semi;s emergence as the Export Finance Bank of the Year at the BusinessDay and Other Financial Institutions'&lpar;BAFI&rpar; Awards 2023&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bank was presented the award at a prestigious dinner event held on Saturday&comma; 28 October 2023 at Lagos Continental Hotel&comma; Victoria Island&comma; Lagos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The BAFI Awards is the benchmark of distinction for institutions in the Nigerian financial services sector&period; Now in its 10th year&comma; the awards recognises and celebrates organisations that excel in the delivery of financial services in Nigeria&comma;&&num;8221&semi; read a statement by BusinessDay Media Limited&comma; the award organisers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Commenting on the award&comma; MD&sol;CEO Fidelity Bank Plc&comma; Mrs&period; Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We are grateful for this recognition and dedicate the award to our customers who rely on us to provide the right support for operating effectively in the global non-oil exports market space&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a bank&comma; we remain committed to our goal of helping individuals grow&comma; inspiring businesses to thrive and empowering economies to prosper&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It would be recalled that the bank recently hosted the second edition of its non-oil exports expo tagged the Fidelity International Trade and Creative Connect &lpar;FITCC&rpar; in Houston&comma; Texas&comma; United States of America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nairaland&period;com&sol;">At the two-day event&comma; the bank signed a cocoa pre-export deal with AFREXIM Bank and JohnVents Industries worth &dollar;40million dollars which has been adjudged as a landmark development by analysts in the exports space&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>FITCC Houston also featured exhibitions by more than 160 Nigeria and US-based businesses as well as panel sessions as stakeholders engaged on strategies to increase the pipeline of Nigerian businesses that export into the US market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In recognition of the bank&&num;8217&semi;s commitment to fostering bilateral trade and economic development between Nigeria and the USA through its FITCC initiative&comma; the Mayor of the City of Houston&comma; Sylvester Turner&comma; proclaimed October 25&comma; 2023 as FITCC Day in Houston Texas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ranked as one of the best banks in Nigeria&comma; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bank has won multiple local and international awards including the Best Payment Solution Provider Nigeria 2023 and Best SME Bank Nigeria 2022 by the Global Banking and Finance Awards&semi; Best Bank for SMEs in Nigeria by the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2023&semi; and Best Domestic Private Bank in Nigeria by the Euromoney Global Private Banking Awards 2023&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;