Ethiopia's Amhara Credit and Savings Institution (ACSI) won the Microfinance Institution of the Year Award.

INAFI International congratulates ACSI for winning Microfinance Institution of the Year Award.

010 African Banker Awards winners announced

WASHINGTON, DC: The Moroccan bank Attijariwafa took home African Bank of the Year, and the Best Local Bank in Africa award went to Banque Internationale Arabe Tunise (BIAT) at the 2010 African Banker Awards. The winners were announced at a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC on Friday, 8 October 2010.

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East Africa's Dr. James Mwangi, MD and CEO of Kenya's Equity Bank picked up the African Banker of the Year award. He was cited for revolutionising Kenya's banking industry, pioneering the first mobile banking technology in the world to reach out to the unbanked, and for championing the empowerment of ordinary people through inclusive finance.

Syda Bbumba, minister of finance, Planning and Economic Development of Uganda was awarded Minister of Finance of the Year, for reducing inflation and instituting sound fiscal and monetary policies which have contributed to a growing economy.

Ethiopia's Amhara Credit and Savings Institution (ACSI) won the Microfinance Institution of the Year Award. Nigeria's Access Bank and Stanbic IBTC won the Socially Responsible Bank of the Year and Best Issuing House awards respectively.

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