All parties wishing to participate in the “Arab Digital Banking Excellence Award – 2018” are kindly invited to fill on the “Registration Form” « Arabic » or « English«  and send it to the following e-mail: awards2018@adb-awards.org, no later than the 15th December 2018. If you would like to share more information, you have to send enclosed separate documents with the form.

To get a word version of the “participation form”, please send a request to the      e-mail mentioned above.

• Candidates could apply for more than one category of the Award
• The service, application or the website has to be officially launched and being already in use (for categories 2/3/4)
• The application form has to be sent in two languages “Arabic” and “English” signed by the director/responsible of the ICT department in the Bank. (All needed information have to be provided). The application form has to be accompanied by the proof of Bank Transfer, as indicated.
• Participants will receive an e-mail, either to confirm the participation or to ask for additional information to complete the file, within the deadlines set out.

Please note that the information about the Awards’ conditions and procedures are provided in details through this website. Also you can can find it in the following documents :

“Arab Digital Banking Excellence Award – 2018” BROCHURES

• English version
• Arabic version

1. Phase 1 : Launching and promotion

This phase includes the announcement about the launching of the “Arab Digital Banking Excellence Award – 2018” during the opening ceremony of the “SITIC-Africa – 2018” – 10 April 2018 in Tunis – Tunisia, to promote it at local, regional and international levels.

After that, official letters are to be sent to the potential participants by the Union of Arab Banks and the Arab Information and Communication Technologies Organization. In addition, various communication channels have to be used (Written and Audiovisual Media) besides the development of a Website and the use of the social media channels.

2. Phase 2 : Phase of Application

The application for the “Arab Digital Banking Excellence Award – 2018” will be open from the 1th of July 2018 to 15 December 2018 upon the conditions and procedures mentioned earlier.

3. Phase 3 : Phase of Assessments

During this phase, the dedicated jury will assess all applications for the Award categories and select the best of them during the period from 15 December 2018 to 31 January 2019.

4. Phase 4 : Phase of coronation

A coronation ceremony will be held to announce the final results and award winners in the first “Arab Digital Banking Excellence Awards – 2018” within the scope of a regional conference on “Digital Banks Services and Solutions” to be held in partnership between the Union of Arab Banks and the Arab Information and Communication Technologies Organization during the first quarter of 2019. (Details are to be provided later).

The ceremony will be Broadcast live on an Arab TV Channel

Besides the Financial institutions winners in the Award, all Arab Financial Institution are to be invited to the ceremony in addition to many Arab and foreign Stakeholders from the financial and the financial technology (Fintech) fields. During the ceremony, winners will present and showcase their projects and experiences.

• Annual subscription in the UAB’s magazine (2 editions)
• Special annex of 10 pages of the UAB’s magazine (to be distributed to all Banks members)
• A contract for advertisement space in the UAB’s magazine (3 months)
• Display of its Name and logo in the websites of UAB (www.uabonline.org) and AICTO (www.aicto.org )
• A free of charge participation for 2 people in the Annual Arab Banking Conference for 2019 to be held in Bayreuth – Lebanon during the month of November 2019
• Winners will be awarded during the Awards’ ceremony.

For the first category; Best Digital Bank in the Arab region: Winners will receive a special award from the jury: “Digital Excellence Award”.

(*) As mentioned before, this award will include only the first place to be given to three banks from the Middle East, Gulf and North Africa regions.