OP - a winner in World's Best Banks awards
The IMF tour comprised almost 30 meetings with partner banks in Washington. The tour also included the award ceremony of the Worlds' Best Banks by the Global Finance magazine.
According to Global Finance, the winners were not necessarily the biggest banks but those which best attended to their customers' needs. The jury considered banks' performance for the past year, reputation and management. All winning banks had also succeeded in meeting customers' needs in challenging markets and attaining better results while laying the foundations for future success.
– OP has succeeded in several fronts – we have a credible story and convincing figures to back us. We have taken great steps in transforming ourselves into a diversified services company while retaining our strong capital base, market share, growth and profit performance. Furthermore, OP is considered to be ahead of most banks in terms of digitalization. Key challenges of banks lie in the change in customer behavior, implementation of digitalization and changes in the competitive and regulatory environment, says Pölönen.
The Global Finance magazine has organized the World's Best Banks competition for 24 years now. Global Finance selects the winners consulting an external jury and also taking a corporate readership poll into account. Banks compete in three categories: internationally, by region and by country. In the category Best Bank in Finland, OP was selected the winner this year and also the year before.
See winners by country:
https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/may-2017/annual-awards-worlds-best-banks-2017