- Received the 2011 Best Bank in Korea Award as selected by the Hong Kong financial magazine, Finance Asia
- Hana Bank’s stable finance and active efforts in overseas markets high evaluated

Hana Bank (President and CEO: Jung-Tai Kim, www.hanabank.com) announced that it had been selected as the 2011 Best Bank in Korea by the global financial magazine, Finance Asia.

Regarding this selection, Finance Asia stated, “In order to expand its domestic market share, Hana Bank has continuously achieved stable financial growth thanks to its myriad of active efforts. It opened a new financial market for smartphone banking, continued its active efforts in overseas markets, such as a strategic alliance with the China Merchants Bank and seeking business opportunities with India, Indonesia and Vietnam.”

The Country Award for Achievement, organized by Finance Asia, which is a famous financial magazine established in Hong Kong 1996, selects the best financial companies in each country, every year, through evaluation by Asian investment analysts and experts. Besides Korea’s Hana Bank, the best banks selected for each country this year included, China’s China Construction Bank and Hong Kong’s HSBC.

Meanwhile, Hana Bank was recognized as being Korea’s best private bank, both in name and reality, by receiving Korea’s best private bank award for the seventh consecutive year as awarded by Britain’s Euro Money magazine. It was also selected as the best private bank for the second consecutive year by Hong Kong’s The Asset.

The President and CEO of Hana Bank, Jung-Tai Kim, who attended the awards ceremony held in Macau, Hong Kong, said, “I am very pleased to receive this award, and we owe it the interest and love of our customers. In the future, we will strive to become a global financial institution outside of Korea that offers differentiated products and services.”