CWG technology powers UBA recognition in India Finacle

By deploying cutting-edge technology powered by CWG plc, one of the country’s leading financial institutions, the Unit­ed Bank of Africa (UBA) has received special recognition at this year’s Finacle Forum.

At an awards ceremony held in India by Infosys Lim­ited, UBA, which prides itself as Africa’s Global Bank won the Process Innovation and Project Management Awards.

CWG has expressed pride at having played a major role in UBA’s double recognitions; revealing that the technology with which the bank got the recognition is powered by CWG, the Pan-African Infor­mation and Communication Technology Company.

“Today, we yet again stand proud, with UBA, one of the foremost banks in Nigeria, who is also our partner and customer as they are ad­judged winner in two catego­ries of Process Innovation and Project Management. We are elated that our team at CWG Plc provided the technology which got them these awards,” said James Agada, chief ex­ecutive officer of CWG in the statement.

United Bank for Africa Plc has received the two global recognition for using cutting-edge technology to provide simple and con­venient banking services to its customers. The bank won the ‘Award for Process Innovation’ on account of its innovative approach to transaction authentication and reconciliation. Mean­while, the award for ‘Project Management Innovation’ is as a result of UBA implementing a “multi country migration” of Finacle banking solution using the clustered rollout concept.

The awards were keenly contested for by financial institutions with over 160 nominations received from across different banks in 94 countries globally.

Infosys provides business consulting, information tech­nology and outsourcing ser­vices to financial institutions across 19 countries. It is a renowned IT company and has built the world’s biggest corporate training facility in Mysore. This indeed is a testa­ment to the great strides being made by Nigeria’s indigenous IT firm, CWG Plc, as they live up to their promise of consis­tently providing Tech-driven solutions that enable growth.