HNB PLC won three awards at the LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2024, including the ‘Bank of the Year for Excellence in Customer Convenience’ title.
Hosted by LankaPay to recognise and reward flag bearers and promoters of innovative digital payment solutions, the awarding night was held at Shangri-La Hotel Colombo on March 20.
The chief guests were State Minister of Technology, Kanaka Herath and State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe.
HNB also won the Silver Award for ‘Best Digital Payment Strategy’ and a Merit Award for ‘Most Popular Digital Payment Product’.
DGM, Retail Banking Group at HNB, Sanjay Wijemanne said, “These awards are a recognition of our team’s work towards pioneering digital payment solutions and our ethos to always prioritise customer convenience. As Sri Lanka embraces a digital payments uptake, particularly regarding financial requirements, our recognition by LankaPay validates our efforts and motivates us to further enhance our digitalisation drive further.”
HNB’s drive for digitalisation took notable steps forward over the past year, unveiling new products and significantly improving their current digital portfolio.
HNB AGM, Digital Business, Chammika Weerasinghe said, “It is quite evident that the world is seamlessly adapting to digital mediums, especially in financial and banking requirements. HNB will continue to understand this shift and work to innovate and improve its digital payments products.”
HNB recently launched HNB TXB – an integrated digital transaction banking platform that offers companies of any size to gain complete visibility and management over payments, cash management, global trade, value-chain financing, treasury and settlements of foreign currency transactions.
The Bank also rolled out HNB Self Onboarding, a transformative digital banking solution that permits any Sri Lankan national the opportunity to sign up for the full range of HNB’s key products entirely remotely.
