SME Bank of the Year 2023
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Starling Bank
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values, all at the tap of a phone, all the time. Once we'd secured our banking licence, we set about creating an app that would give people tools to confidently manage their money and allow them talk to a human 24/7 if they needed help. Since launching our app-based current accounts in 2017, we’ve grown a lot: a team of more than two thousand, three million accounts and four account types - personal, business, joint and multi-currency, alongside a child card. We've also been voted Britain’s Best Current Account five years running. Oh, and we're the first bank to be founded by a woman.
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CBA - Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Commonwealth Bank is Australia’s leading business bank, supporting Australians to start, run and grow their business for over a century. With more than one million small, medium and commercial businesses across the country, Commonwealth Bank brings together the leading technology, products and lending solutions to meet the needs of today’s businesses.
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Akbank
Akbank was founded in Turkey on 1948, as a privately-owned commercial bank, and continues to serve its customers in the fields of corporate and investment banking, commercial banking, SME banking, consumer banking, payment systems, private banking, investment services, and treasury transactions. Akbank provides services to over 10,8 million active customers through its extensive service network and technological infrastructure with HQ in Istanbul, 19 Regional Directorates in Türkiye, 711 branches, and more than 12.000 employees. Apart from the one-to-one service provided at the branches, the bank continues to create value through Akbank Internet, Akbank Mobile, Call Center, approximately 5900 ATMs, and 734 thousand POS terminals for bank’s customers. Akbank has also brought an international dimension to its operations through subsidiary Akbank AG in Germany and its branch in Malta by drawing strength from bank’s highly reputable identity in Türkiye
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SME Neobank of the Year 2023
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Allica Bank
Conrad Ford is Chief Product & Strategy Officer at Allica Bank, a British modern relationship bank, committed to empowering established SMEs to succeed. He tells us more about the bank's positioning and explains how it quickly became profitable.
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OakNorth
We often read that the offers of traditional banks are not adapted enough to SMEs. So, we set out to discover new players dedicated to SMEs. Rajesh Gupta, CFO of OakNorth Bank, gives us his point of view and shares with us what OakNorth Bank offers its customers.
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Validus Capital
Based in Singapore, Validus offers a “business account that does it all” in Southeast Asia. We interviewed Vikas Nahata, their Co-Founder and Executive Chairman.
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