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Awards
Fortis has picked up dozens of prestigious awards in recent years. Here is a selection:

Fortis

  • Bank of the Year in Western Europe (The Banker, December 2007)
  • Best employer in the Netherlands (Intermediair, October 2007)
  • Best employer in Belgium (Trendence , September 2007)
  • Second most attractive employer in Belgium (Randstad survey, March 2007)
  • Partners in Business (MPB Academy): no.1 "out of the box" training programme in Belgium (RH Tribune, September 2007)
  • MPB Associate Programme: Best Traineeship in NL in category Financial Sp!ts Careerevent, October 2007)

Retail Banking

  • Best Bank in Belgium and in Luxembourg (Euromoney, July 2007), for the seventh time in a row; Bank of the Year in Belgium (The Banker, December 2007)
  • Best Bank in Belgium and in Luxembourg (Global Finance, November 2007)
  • Market Vision Award 2007 for the Benelux region (VASCO Data Security International, November 2007)
  • First prize in Poland for performances in the ‘universal banks’ category (BANK, June 2007)
  • Fortis in Turkey awarded ThinkMarketing Grand Prix in September for its successful rebranding campaign and related marketing efforts. It also received the Grand Jury Award at the 2006 Interactive Marketing Awards in November, for its successful execution of the brand launch campaign on the web.
  • Fortis in Turkey highly commended in the category Best Call Centre in Europe, Middle East and Africa (ContactCenterWorld.com, May 2007)
  • Fortis quoted among Turkey’s top ten Innovation Leaders (Capital Magazine, January 2008)

Merchant Banking

  • European MBS issuer of the Year for our Dutch mortgage securitisation transactions (Opal, October 2007)
  • Join2Grow.biz, our website for the entrepreneur community, has won two WebAwards, i.e. the B2B Standard of Excellence and the Online Community Standard of Excellence (Web Marketing Association, September 2007)
  • Most respected stockbroker in the Benelux (Thomson Extel survey, June 2007)
  • Best Investor Services in Western Europe and Best Investment Bank in Belgium (Euromoney, July 2007)
  • Hedge Fund Administrator of the Year (Funds Europe, December 2007)
  • Best Bank in Belgium and Luxembourg (Global Finance, October 2007)
  • Best Bank in Eastern Europe for Cash Management (Treasury Management International, January 2008)
  • Commercial Bank of the Year for 2006 (annual survey by leading Dutch financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad, questioning 5,000 big companies)
  • Shipping Finance Advisor of the Year (Lloyd’s Shipping Economist Awards, November 2007)
  • 3 Deal of the Year Awards for global shipping transactions (in leasing, M&A and IPO) (Marine Money, June 2007)
  • Best Soft Commodity Finance Bank (Trade and Forfaiting Review Magazine, August 2007), for the third time in a row
  • Best Foreign Exchange Bank in both Belgium and the Netherlands (Global Finance, January 2008)
  • No. 1 ranking in Syndicated Lenders for clean energy project finance (New Energy Finance, 2007)

Insurance

Belgium

  • Insurance Award in Branch 23 for 'Top Profit Planet Euro' in category Low Risk Fund, 'Top Profit Galaxy Euro' in category Medium Risk Fund and 'Planning for Pension' in category Life Style (Decavi 2007 Belgian Life Insurance Awards, October 2007)
  • Brokers Award for overall satisfaction, for the second time in a row.
    In the Concepts category, the packages Familis (private market) and Modulis (SME market) were recognised for their innovative, holistic customer approach (Belgian Non-life Insurance Awards, April 2007)
Netherlands
  • Europeesche named ‘Best Travel Insurance Company’ in the Netherlands for the ninth year in a row (voting by peers at the ‘Vakantiebeurs’ trade fair in Utrecht, January 2007)
International
  • Ocidental Seguros, a Millenniumbcp Fortis company, awarded "Best Non-life Insurer of Portugal in 2006" (Exame magazine, September 2007)
  • Fortis Luxembourg Vie: top of the Specialist Range over three years and over five years, and first for Asset Allocation Global Dynamic Funds over three years (Standard & Poor’s Fund Awards Belgium, March 2006)
  • Fortis Corporate Insurance was rated A (strong) by Standard & Poor’s
  • Fortis Insurance Ltd. (UK): ‘General Insurer of the Year’ and ‘Loss Adjusting (claims) Initiative of the Year’ (British Insurance Awards, 4 July 2007).
    • Two awards, ‘Most Effective Insurance Initiative’ and ‘Most Innovative Application of Technology’, at the ifs School of Finance, Financial Innovation Awards (November 2007). ‘Assistance/Claims Handler of the Year’ (International Travel Insurance Journal, November 2007)
  • Muang Thai Life named best life insurance company in Thailand
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