BKT AWARDED AS BANK OF THE YEAR 2013 BY EMEA FINANCE MAGAZINE
Warsaw, Poland (13, May 2014) – Banka Kombëtare Tregtare is awarded as “The Best Bank of Albania for 2013”, based on its superior growth, overall performance and innovation shown during 2013 by the prestigious British magazine EMEA Finance for the fourth time.
The award was submitted to BKT’s Chairman Mr. Mehmet Usta, Vice Chairman Mr. Mehmet Ertuğrul Gürler and Mr. Kaan Pekin, Head of Treasury and Financial Institutions, in the ceremony that took place in Warsaw on May 13, 2014.
During the awards ceremony in Warsaw, the Chairman Mr. Usta emphasized that: “We are proud that our consistent growth, sustainable profitability, innovative products and customer service have not gone unnoticed. As long as we implement our growth strategy in line with our vision, we will keep being The Best Bank in Albania just like in the past, when we were stated as The Best Bank in Albania three times by The Banker, two times in a row by Euromoney and twice by Finance Central Europe.
EMEA Finance, one of the most important financial magazines in the world that follows developments in the financial markets in emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa, awards each year best banks and financial institutions in these markets.
BKT is the second largest and the oldest commercial bank in Albania with a total of 2.7 billion USD in assets and 2.2 billion of USD in deposits. BKT network includes 85 branches out of which 61 are situated in Albania and 24 of them in Kosovo, making BKT the biggest Albanian bank in the region.