Doha Bank received the “The BIZZ 2014 — Beyond Success” award during a ceremony hosted by the World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB) at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi recently.

Doha Bank Abu Dhabi branch head (Business) Pierre Matar accepted the award on behalf of the bank and conveyed the bank’s appreciation for being recognised consistently with awards in the past years.  

This was the third consecutive year that Doha Bank has won a BIZZ award, having received the “Peak of Success” award in 2013 and the “Excellence in Business Leadership” award, in addition to the “World Business Leader” award given in 2012.

Doha Bank Group CEO Dr R Seetharaman said, “Doha Bank was honoured to be recognised with some of the world’s most efficient and responsible brands at this year’s BIZZ awards.”

He said the third BIZZ award in successive years highlights Doha Bank’s “consistency, dedication, and focus” on strong values across its corporate responsibility charter, high governance standards, and innovation across both services and organisational efficiency.

Doha Bank has carved a niche in Qatar and the GCC region with a dynamic growth strategy while maintaining a consistent growth rate since its establishment, Seetharaman noted.

He said the bank continues to outperform expectations across fundamental indicators, including return on average shareholder equity, net growth in assets, the depth and diversity of its products and service portfolio, and in its role as a corporate citizen in the communities where it operates.

According to Seetharaman, Doha Bank is a trendsetter and has introduced a range of innovative products and services, including a class-leading savings programme in the form of Al Dana Savings.

It also offers a highly-competitive range of loans and financial solutions for retail customers while maintaining a healthy share of Qatar’s corporate banking market with unique services for cash management, payroll dissemination, and tailored corporate solutions.

Doha Bank also offers customers an extensive portfolio of credit and debit cards to meet every need, including the Lulu Hypermarket co-branded card, which was adjudged as the region’s best credit card in 2013. 

Doha Bank’s consumer-centric technology solutions are credited with many firsts in the Qatar market. The bank’s e-Commerce solutions and bespoke portal DohaSooq.com offer merchants in Qatar the ability to offer their goods for online purchases via a fully-secure platform backed by a bank in Qatar.

Doha Bank was also the first in Qatar to partner with Q-Tickets.com to offer online ticketing for movies, which was extended recently with the addition of the country’s first option to pay for tickets purchased using a debit card.

It also offers its customers global functionality through partnerships with Visa, MasterCard, China Union Pay, and American Express, making Doha Bank’s cards among the most widely-accepted globally.

Doha Bank has established a dominant position among financial institutions across the Middle East, with 32 state-of-art local branches, 10 e-Branches, 13 pay offices, and more than 120 ATMs.

The bank’s operations are spread across strategic locations in Qatar in addition to full-fledged branches in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait. It is supported by representative offices in Singapore, Turkey, Japan, China, Britain, Canada, Germany, Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Sharjah, encompassing a robust and strategic network of correspondent banking relationships.

 

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