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)
• Corporate movie ‘Give all you have’ received a Silver Screen Award at the 41st US International Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles (May 2008)

Retail Banking

• Best Bank in Luxembourg (Euromoney, July 2008), for the eight time in a row; Bank of the Year in Belgium (The Banker, December 2007)
• Best Bank in Belgium and in Luxembourg (Global Finance, April 2008)
• Market Vision Award 2007 for the Benelux region (VASCO Data Security International, November 2007)
• Fortis quoted among Turkey’s top ten Innovation Leaders (Capital Magazine, January 2008)

Asset Management

• KIT Fortis Investments received the ‘Asset Management Company of Russia’ award at the annual Collective Investments Market competition in Moscow (May 2008)
• PT Fortis Investments has won the prestigious Bisnis Indonesia Award 2008 for Best Fund Manager.

Merchant Banking

• Clearing Service of the Year (Futures & Options World Magazine – Euromoney, April 2008)
• Best Carbon Trader 2008 (Point Carbon, March 2008)
• Restructuring Deal of the Year award for the outsourcing of the shipping activities of Chiquita Brands International. Other Deal of the Year awards for Bank Debt, Public Equity-IPO and Private Equity (Marine Money, June 2008)
• 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)
• 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, April 2008)
• Best Bank in Eastern Europe for Cash Management (Treasury Management International, January 2008)
• Shipping Finance Advisor of the Year (Lloyd’s Shipping Economist Awards, November 2007)
• Best Soft Commodity Finance Bank (Trade & Forfaiting Review Magazine, July 2008), for the fourth 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)
• Our Shanghai Branch has been awarded ‘Most Improved CFETS Member’ for USD/CNY Foreign Exchange Swap 2007 (China Foreign Exchange Trading System, April 2008)

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 third time in a row.
  In the products Top Householder’s (Home Insurance), B.A. Auto (Car Liability) and Modulis (SME Concepts) were awarded  (Belgian Non-life Insurance Awards, April 2008)

International

• Ocidental Seguros, a Millenniumbcp Fortis company, awarded "Best Non-life Insurer of Portugal in 2006" (Exame magazine, September 2007) 
• Fortis Insurance Ltd. (UK): ‘Claims Initiative of the Year’ (British Insurance Awards, July 2008).
  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)