Burgan Bank wins ‘Best Co-Branded Credit Card’ award from The Banker Middle East Kuwait Product Awards 2015

Press release

Published December 14th, 2015 - 07:54 GMT

Al Bawaba

Burgan Bank announced that it has won the coveted ‘Best Co-Branded Credit Card’ award from The Banker Middle East Kuwait Product Awards 2015, for the Burgan Bank Qatar Airways co-branded MasterCard. The Banker Middle East Kuwait Product Awards 2015 are designed to identify and reward quality and excellence in financial products and services.

Mr. Robin Amlot - Chief Executive Officer of CPI financials along with Mr. Omer Hussain- Sales Director at CPI FINANCIALs visited Burgan Bank and presented the award to Mr. Venkat Menon – Burgan Bank’s Chief Retail Banking Officer.

Commenting on the bank’s latest win, Mr. Venkat Menon, Burgan Bank’s Chief Retail Banking Officer said: “It is a great honor for us to receive the award from a leading institution like The Banker Middle East. This award is a reflection of our commitment to growth and to building an innovative and solid range of products that facilitates customers’ banking processes and in turn rewards them. On behalf of Burgan Bank, I would like thank the CPI panel of judges at The Banker Middle East for endorsing the bank’s co-branded credit card. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to our staff who work tirelessly to achieve similar accolades year after year.”

Burgan Bank constantly strives to be innovative, and to benchmark against banking excellence in the region. Most recently, Burgan Bank’s Qatar Airways co-branded MasterCard was awarded the “Best Credit Card Initiative of the Year in Kuwait” from the Asian Banking and Finance Magazine 2015 Awards, reflecting the success of Burgan Bank’s Qatar Airways co-branded MasterCard, the fastest air mile earner in Kuwait, providing the best in class banking experiences accompanied with various benefits to cardholders in Kuwait.

Background Information

Burgan Bank

Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the youngest conventional Bank and second largest by assets in Kuwait, with a significant focus on the corporate and financial institutions sectors, as well as having a growing retail, and private bank customer base. Burgan Bank has majority owned subsidiaries in the MENAT region supported by one of the largest regional branch networks. which include Gulf Bank Algeria - AGB (Algeria), Bank of Baghdad - BOB (Iraq & Lebanon),Tunis International Bank – TIB (Tunisia), and fully owned Burgan Bank – Turkey, (collectively known as the “Burgan Bank Group”). Furthermore, Burgan Bank has a present in the UAE through its corporate office (“Burgan Financial Services Limited) which had helped the bank to participate in multiple financing opportunities in the UAE.