HNB recognised for digital payment innovation with three awards at LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2024

HNB Retail Banking Group Deputy General Manager Sanjay Wijemanne accepting the Gold Award for the Bank of the Year for Excellence in Customer Convenience from Central Bank Payments and Settlements Director Vasantha Alwis in the presence of (from left) HNB Digital Banking Senior Manager Chakshika Amarawardhana, HNB Digital Business AGM Chammika Weerasinghe, LankaPay Chairman Dr. Kenneth De Zilwa and LankaPay General Manger/ CEO Channa De Silva

Sri Lanka’s leading private sector bank, HNB PLC, recently won three awards at the LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2024, including the ‘Bank of the Year for Excellence in Customer Convenience title’. 

Hosted by LankaPay to recognise and reward flag bearers and promoters of innovative digital payment solutions, the awarding night was held at Shangri-La Hotel Colombo on 20 March, with the participation of Chief Guest State Minister of Technology Kanaka Herath and State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe.

“These awards are a recognition of our team’s work towards pioneering digital payment solutions and our ethos to always prioritise customer convenience. As Sri Lanka embraces a digital payments uptake, particularly regarding financial requirements, our recognition by LankaPay validates our efforts and motivates us to further enhance our digitalisation drive further,” said HNB Retail Banking Group Deputy General Manager Sanjay Wijemanne. 

In addition to being presented with the Gold Award for the ‘Bank of the Year for Excellence in Customer Convenience’, HNB also won the Silver Award for ‘Best Digital Payment Strategy’ and a Merit Award for ‘Most Popular Digital Payment Product’.

HNB’s drive for digitalisation took notable steps forward over the past year, unveiling new products and significantly improving their current digital portfolio. Notably, HNB recently launched HNB TXB – a powerful integrated digital transaction banking platform that offers companies from MSMEs to MNCs – enabling enterprises of any size to gain complete visibility and management over payments, cash management, global trade, value-chain financing, treasury and settlements of foreign currency transactions. The Bank also rolled out HNB Self On boarding, a transformative digital banking solution that allows any Sri Lankan national the opportunity to sign up for the full range of HNB’s key products entirely remotely. 

Initiated in 2017 to recognise the pioneers of payment technology innovations in the country, the LankaPay Technnovation Awards institutions enhance the efficiency of the national payment network. 

“It is quite evident that the world is seamlessly adapting to digital mediums, especially in financial and banking requirements. HNB will continue to understand this shift and work to innovate and improve its digital payments products,” HNB Digital Business AGM Chammika Weerasinghe said.