UBA sweeps top honours at 2026 Euromoney Awards, named Nigeria’s Best ESG, Retail Bank

Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has reinforced its presumption arsenic 1 of the continent’s starring fiscal institutions aft emerging arsenic Nigeria’s Best Bank for Retail and Sustainability Leadership (ESG) astatine the prestigious 2026 Euromoney Awards for Excellence.

The awards, presented connected Thursday, July 17, 2026, astatine The Peninsula London successful the United Kingdom, celebrates banking institutions that show outstanding fiscal performance, innovation, lawsuit interaction and sustainable concern practices.

The treble designation underscores UBA’s enactment successful driving sustainable concern portion expanding entree to innovative banking solutions for millions of customers crossed Africa.

According to Euromoney, UBA distinguished itself done important strides successful environmental, societal and governance (ESG) performance, including the motorboat of a Green Financing Facility to enactment households and businesses transitioning to renewable energy, a ₦5 cardinal financing programme successful concern with the Bank of Industry to empower women-owned businesses, and its semipermanent committedness to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

The work besides highlighted UBA’s efforts to embed sustainability wrong its operations done the deployment of solar-powered vigor solutions crossed 50 branches...