Monday 16 / September / 2024
Muscat: Bank Sohar was presented with its fourth award of the year. The bank’s corporate website (www.banksohar.net) was awarded the ‘Strategic Website of the Year Award 2016’ under ‘Banks and Financial Institutions’ category by Lebanon-based Pan Arab Excellence Awards Academy, in conjunction with the Arab Organisation for Social Responsibility and Tatweej Academy.
The award was presented to the bank at the 15th Pan Arab Web Awards held recently at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Representing Bank Sohar at the event was Abdulali Al Lawati, senior AGM – Corporate Support, who received the award from Pierre Moukarzel, president of Tatweej Academy.
The event played host to a number of senior representatives from various organisations from across the region including Arab ambassadors, award winners, VIPs in the ICT field, and government dignataries.
Commenting on the achievement, Rashad Ali Al Musafir, acting CEO of Bank Sohar said, “At Bank Sohar we have placed great emphasis on the development of our online presence and enhanced internet banking services. Our corporate website is, in most cases, the very first and also the most common medium of providing information to all our stakeholders. Developments to the website enables us to continually improve on the user experience, making it more dynamic, and user friendly whilst also keeping it up to date, thereby effectively promoting our latest products and services.
This award, along with the 12 others we have received for our online assets over the years, stand as a testament to our efforts in keeping the website user friendly and attractive as well as continuously updating it with the latest information . On behalf of the Bank I would like to thank all the organisers for recognising our efforts and deeming us worthy of such a coveted award.”
