UT Bank was declared Ghana’s best bank at the 2011 Ghana Banking Awards held at the Accra International Conference Centre, Saturday night. Apart from winning the prestigious Bank of the Year award, UT Bank also won Best Bank - I.T/Electronic Banking, Best Bank - Financial Performance and placed first runner-up in Customer Care, Advisory Services, Medium Term Loan Financing, Most Socially Responsible Bank, Retail Banking and came second runner-up in Corporate Banking. Organised by Corporate Initiative Ghana, the 2011 Awards was under the theme: Leveraging ICT to transform the Financial Services Sector. Unibank won Best Bank - Customer Care, Best Bank - Corporate Banking, Best Bank - Trade Finance and Best Bank - Advisory Services and capped their performance with the second runner-up in Short Term Loan Financing. Prudential Bank won Best Bank - Long Term Loan Financing and Best Bank - Medium-Term Loan Financing and second runners-up in both Competitive Pricing and Retail Banking. And for UBA which won Best Bank - Short Term Loan Financing, it was first runner-up in Trade Financing, I.T/Electronic Banking; first runner-up in Best Growing Bank, and first runner-up in Corporate Banking, and came second runner-up in Medium-Term Loan Financing as well as Long-Term Loan Financing. Out of 18 award categories at stake, there were no winners in four categories - Best Bank - Product Innovation; Best Bank - Export Finance; Best Bank - Agriculture Financing and Special Award - Best Bank, Mobile Banking Below is the list of winners Bank of the Year : UT Bank Best Bank - Corporate Banking : Unibank Best Bank - Retail Banking : Cal Bank Best Bank - I.T/Electronic Banking : UT Bank Best Growing Bank : Fidelity Bank Best Bank - Customer Care : Unibank Best Bank - Most Socially Responsible Bank : Zenith Bank Best Bank - Competitive Pricing : Ecobank Ghana Best Bank - Financial Performance : UT Bank Best Bank - Trade Finance : Unibank Best Bank - Advisory Services : Unibank Best Bank - Short Term Loan Financing : UBA Best Bank - Long Term Loan Financing : Prudential Bank Best Bank - Medium-Term Loan Financing : Prudential Bank Best Bank - Product Innovation Best Bank - Export Finance Best Bank - Agriculture Financing Special Award - Best Bank, Mobile Banking