VIB wins international awards for MyVIB mobile banking app

On March 15, Vietnam International Bank (VIB) received the “Best e-bank 2016” and “Best retail mobile banking experience 2016” awards by The Asset for its MyVIB mobile banking app.

These are two important awards in “The Asset Triple A Digital Awards” of The Asset. The awards were assessed by a panel of experienced experts in the region, aiming to honour financial institutions and technology firms with excellence in development and application of digital technologies in the Asia-Pacific region.

The “Best e-bank 2016” and “Best retail mobile banking experience 2016” awards recognised VIB’s efforts and achievement in developing MyVIB and enabling it to meet international standards. The Asset’s awards are assessed transparently in a strict process and awarded to only banks and relevant institutions with outstanding achievement and contributions in the finance and banking industry in the year.

With the MyVIB mobile banking app, customers can bank online by opening account, transferring fund, paying bills, making deposit, managing credit cards, monitoring and repaying loans... anytime, anywhere. The friendly and easy to use interface and high security of MyVIB will bring about wonderful experiences to customers in personal finance management.

In recent years, VIB has won a lot of prestigious awards in the banking industry from both local and international institutions, including “Bank of the year” awarded to VIB for two consecutive years – 2015 and 2016, “Vietnam's Outstanding Innovative Banking Product/Service Award in 2015” awarded by IDG for MyVIB. The new awards help to affirm that VIB is realising its vision to be the most innovative and customer-centric bank of Vietnam.

Established in 1996, VIB has now become one of few local banks with the highest credit ranking rated by Moody’s. Currently, VIB owns 160 branches and transaction offices nationwide and banks with more than 8,000 correspondent banks in 61 countries. The bank has over 4,000 employees serving 1.6 million personal customers and 34,000 corporate customers.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), VIB’s strategic shareholder, is one of the world’s 10 largest banks by market capitalisation, with more than 100 years of history. CBA now owns a 20 per cent stake at VIB.

By Hong Anh