TAJBank Gets New Global Rating, Wins Islamic Bank Award

Nigeria’s fastest growing non-interest banking services provider, TAJBank Limited, has again consolidated its frontline position as Nigeria’s most innovative and value-driven non-interest lender, has won an award at the just concluded IFN Awards in Dubai.

The ‘Best Islamic Bank in Nigeria’ award was won by TAJBank through a global survey/poll conducted by the IFN.
Speaking shortly after the conferment of the Best Islamic Bank Award on TAJBank in Dubai, which is considered as one of most highly rated awards in the Islamic Finance Industry, the bank’s managing director/CEO, Hamid Joda, attributed the global recognition to “our Board, management and staff’s commitment to best industry standards in products and services’ packaging and delivery to our highly cherished and growing customers.

“We want to thank IFN for the very credible poll that indicated that TAJBank is leading the non-interest banking segment of Nigeria and also assure our growing customers that, as our mantra says, TAJBank’s only interest is the customers”, Joda added.

In his brief comments, the bank’s co-founder/executive director, Sherif Idi, described the IFN award “as a testament to our relentless efforts to ensure that TAJBank is the preferred choice for customers that are looking for the best in service standards powered by a well-groomed professionals and powered by world class technological assets.”

In the last few years of its operations, TAJBank had in 2022 received the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification and three International Standards Organisation (ISO) certifications by the Certification Partner Global (CPG), namely ISO 27001, ISO 22301, and ISO 20000 on Information Security, Business Continuity, and IT Service Management Systems.

At the domestic level, the bank has also won several awards, including the Leadership newspaper’s ‘Banker of The Year Award 2020’, BusinessDay newspaper’s ‘Islamic Bank of the Year Award’ for three consecutive years and several others in recognition of its world-class innovative products and services delivery.