Bandar Seri Begawan, 21st December 2011. An independent world study conducted by World Finance, a renowned global financial magazine, has again recognized Baiduri Bank Group as the “Best Banking Group in Brunei” at their 2011 World Finance Awards. This is the third time that Baiduri Bank has been selected for this award.
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| Baiduri Bank CEO, Pierre Imhof (right) and the Bank’s Deputy General Manager Retail Banking & Branch Network, Ti Eng Hui (middle) holding the crystal obelisk they received from Hywel Jones, Broadcast Editor of World Finance (left). |
Mr Pierre Imhof, CEO and Mr Ti Eng Hui, Deputy General Manager, Retail Banking and Branch Network of Baiduri Bank received the award in the form of a crystal obelisk from Mr Hywel Jones, World Finance’s broadcast editor and formerly of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) at Baiduri Bank’s head office in Kiarong recently.
Following the award presentation, Mr Imhof was interviewed by Mr Jones on the challenges faced by Baiduri Bank and the Bank’s developments over the past year. Excerpts of the interview can be viewed on World Finance website, www.worldfinance.com and Baiduri Bank’s website www.baiduri.com.
This is the third international banking award received by Baiduri Bank this year. In March, the Bank was awarded “Company of the Decade 2001-2010 for Brunei” from World Finance while three weeks ago, at a glittering award ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel in London, The Banker magazine awarded Baiduri Bank the “Bank of the Year 2011” for Brunei for the eight time.
The World Finance award selection panel has used a wide range of criteria to reach its decision over its 2011 awards, lending a critical eye of a collective 175 years of business journalism to the exhaustive information gathered by the award body’s research team. Some of the more important factors included: customer solutions and relationship optimization, innovation and flexibility, keeping ahead of the competition, market leadership and geographical spread, proof of development and positive media coverage.
World Finance magazine is published by World News Media, from its headquarters in London. The magazine provides readers with regular updated news collected from trusted media organizations such as Reuters and Financial News and is distributed to 120,000 key decision-makers around the world representing multi-national institutions, heads of banks and government treasury departments. |
