UK’s Global Finance Awards RCBank as Best Commercial Bank in Sierra Leone

By Amin Kef Sesay

The Rokel Commercial Bank has continued to gain international recognition with a plethora of awards in 2019. This week, the Bank officially received an award for best Commercial Bank from the UK based Global Banking and Finance Magazine.

Global Banking and Finance Awards was started in 2011 by the United Kingdom based Global Banking & Finance Review magazine to recognize notable changes happening in the global financing community. The awards are presented annually and they reflect the innovative, progressive, and inspirational changes taking place within the global financial sector, including banking, corporate finance, Islamic finance, inward investment, tax and accounting, asset management, mergers and acquisitions.

The Bank’s head of Corporate Affairs, Millicent Cole described the award as very credible from a reputable international institution which conducted a very rigorous selection exercise with other banks in Africa and the rest of the World.

“We are very much happy to receive an award from such an internationally recognized entity. Our bank has weathered the storm….we are here to serve our customers and we assure them that their finances are in good hands” she said.

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