NDB wins four prestigious awards at National Business Excellence Awards 2019

From left: Vice President – Legal Melody Wickramanayake, Vice President – Group Human Resources Lasantha Dasanayake, Senior Manager – Marketing Lanka Averiwatte, Director/Group CEO Dimantha Seneviratne, Vice President – SME, Middle Markets and Business Banking Indika Ranaweera, Vice President – Project Finance and Corporate Credit Control Ishani Palliyaguru, and Vice President – Branch Network Management and Correspondent Banking K.V. Vinoj

National Development Bank PLC was felicitated with four awards at the National Business Excellence Awards 2019, hosted by the National Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka (NCCSL). 

Accordingly, the bank won the Runner-Up in the Banking Sector category in addition to emerging as the Runner-Up for Excellence in Performance Management, Runner-Up for Excellence in Capacity Building and the Merit Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance. 

The 16th Edition of the National Business Excellence Awards recognises corporates who have excelled in business.

The National Business Excellence Awards is an annual award competition conducted by the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) with a view to recognising the business enterprises, that display business excellence as well as in each pillar of excellence.

The contenders for the Business Excellence Awards were evaluated by an eminent panel of judges over the past few months and judged on a competitively structured Excellence Evaluation Model of seven criteria, namely Excellence in Business and Financial Results, Capacity Building, Performance Management, Local and Global Market Reach, Leadership, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability. 

NDB Group CEO Dimantha Seneviratne accepted the awards in the presence of a large gathering of top business leaders, leading business organisations, and diplomatic missions.

The bank’s accomplishments stand witness to NDB’s enhanced stature and prominence. NDB also emerged as the ‘Winner – Sri Lanka’ under the World’s Best Consumer Digital Banks category of the World’s Best Digital Bank Awards 2019 conducted by The Global Finance USA. 

NDB also won an additional number of prestigious awards including ‘Best Domestic Bank in Sri Lanka for 2019’ by Asiamoney Magazine, ‘Bank of the Year in Sri Lanka 2018’ presented by The Banker UK and ‘Best Bank in Sri Lanka 2018’ by Global Finance Magazine, USA.