Doha Bank has won the Golden Europe Award for quality and commercial prestige.The award was handed over to Khalid al-Naima, head of public sector, Doha Bank at the Quality Summit 2012 held last month in France, attended by distinguished businessmen from different sectors representing 40 countries.The award was presented to Doha Bank for its corporate achievement, prestige, innovation, quality commitment and excellence.“The bank has been completely transformed into a dynamic entity with strong values and customer-centric approach and has sustained the same over a period of time,” Doha Bank Group chief executive officer R Seetharaman said.Stressing that the bank has achieved very impressive results over the last eight years of its history, he said, this has been a combined result of the board’s vision, management and employee dedication and a tremendous customer response.“Doha Bank’s signature is sustainable out performance. We are the trendsetter in introducing many innovative products and services in Qatar,” he said, adding the operating efficiency, asset allocation model, unique international strategy and perfect execution blend together to provide an almost unparalleled force in global banking.Doha Bank has established a dominant position amongst the financial institutions across the Middle East, with 38 local branches, 10 e-branches, 13 pay offices and more than 110 ATMs. The bank’s operations are geographically spread across strategic locations in Qatar and the bank also operates full-fledged branches in Dubai and Kuwait, and has representative offices in Turkey, Japan, Singapore, China, Abu Dhabi, South Korea, the UK and Germany encompassing a robust and strategic network of correspondent banking relationships.