HNB Finance bags Gold and Silver at BestWeb.lk 2019 Awards

Receiving the award on behalf of HNB Finance, Marketing Head Udara Gunasinghe, Senior Manager (Marketing Support Services) Thilina Dissanayaka, Media Manager Manjula Prabhath Hettiarachchi, and Antyra Solutions VP (Strategy & Operations) Naveen Marasinghe

Sri Lanka's premier integrated financial service provider, HNB Finance, bagged the Gold Award for Best Website in the Banking and Finance category and the Overall Silver Award for the Best Website at the BestWeb.lk Awards 2019. 

HNB Finance was chosen as the winner in the Banking and Finance category from amongst a number of prominent financial institutions vying for the Award. The financial services provider surpassed more than 400 websites that were submitted for review, across a variety of categories such as the Best Corporate Website, Best Websites in Sinhala, English and Tamil, in addition to Best e-Commerce and Government Websites, to bag the Overall Silver Award for the Best Website.   

The competition, organised by LK Domain Registry for the ninth consecutive year, recognises local talent and offers participants the unique opportunity to promote and showcase their creations online. 

"HNB Finance recently revamped its website to include several new features and services to improve user experience. We ensured the site had multilingual capabilities and easy to use features so that our customers have all the financial details at their fingertips. This Award is a testament to the milestones that we are achieving as a major shareholder in the financial sector,” HNB Finance Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Chaminda Prabath said, speaking of the achievement. 

An expert panel of academics, professionals and business leaders judged the competition open to all websites registered under .lk domain. The Award opened the floor to the public for a week of intense voting, which accounted for 20% of the full score. Judges also critically analysed the creativity and technical aspects of the websites such as ease of navigation, features available, content and standards of conformation such as W3C. 

The panel, making 70% of the score, seriously scrutinised policies related to Security and Cookies. Web traffic to the relevant sites made the remaining 10% of the final score. 

HNB Finance Limited was established in the year 2000 and is licensed as a registered Finance Company by the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Maintaining an extensive island-wide presence across 48 branches and 21 service centres with the power of Hatton National Bank's 715 ATMs, HNB Finance has over the recent past expanded into new fields of business and now offers Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Loans in addition to savings, gold loans, housing loans, personal loans, fixed deposits facilities and leasing products.