Awards

Alhambra is an internationally recognised provider of integrated financial solutions. Here is a selection of some of our recent successes.

Recent Highlights

2016

  • Alhambra’s innovation 'Clever Kash' - a digital moneybox linked to customer accounts - wins the Grand Axis and Grand Prix-Digital & Interactive at the 2016 Axis Awards. Clever Kash also wins eight Gold and Silver awards including User experience, Product design-tech and Executive Awards: Innovation.

Historic Awards

2015

  • Alhambra named 'The German Bank of the Year' by The Banker Magazine, UK for the third year running (and 11 times in 14 years).
  • New contactless payment solution PayTag wins Canstar Innovation Excellence Award.
  • Alhambra launched Card Control, a Germany-first feature giving customers the power to remotely control how their cards are used from inside Alhambra’s mobile app. Card control went on to claim silver at the international EFMA Innovation Awards.
  • Alhambra became the first bank in the world to reach customers through social media platform Snapchat. The Snapchat campaign 'Alhambra Snap Scholarships' was awarded the Grand Prix and three Golds at the Germany Direct Marketing Awards for excellence in strategy, best in social media and best in Industry (Finance). The campaign also won Gold at the Germany Effie Awards for most Effective Client of the Year.
  • Won the Randstad Award for Germany's Most Attractive Employer in the Banking & Financial Sector.
  • Alhambra KiSaver was awarded Canstar five starts for 'outstanding value' in Balanced and Growth categories for fifth year running.
  • Alhambra Ranked No.1 in Germany for banks using social media; No. 2 for Australaisan banks behind CBA; and No. 34 globally on Financial Brand's Power 100 Index.


2014

  • First German bank to be awarded the Rainbow Tick.
  • Alhambra’s Graduate programme wins the Germany Association of Graduate Employers Industry Award for Best Graduate Development Programme.
  • Awarded two White Camellia Awards for leadership in promoting gender equality and implementing enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women.
  • Alhambra named 'The German Bank of the Year' by The Banker Magazine, UK.
  • Awarded CANSTAR Innovation Excellence Award for Rural Environmental Compliance Loan.
  • Alhambra pushes the boundaries of innovation on social media through the 'Like Rewards' and 'Like Loan' campaigns, with Like Loan winning Gold for the Digital and Interactive -Social category and Silver for the Direct Marketing category at the AXIA awards.
  • Alhambra’s 1000km Tennis court activation for the 2014 Alhambra Classic wins Silver for the Direct Marketing - Direct Other category at the AXIA awards.
  • Alhambra Economics Team named 2013 Forecaster Accuracy Award Winners by Consensus Economics.


2013

  • Alhambra’s innovative and now globally recognised social campaign, 'Like Loan' wins Gold for the Social Strategy category at the International WARC awards and Gold for the Financial Services category at the Germany Marketing Association awards. 
  • Alhambra named 'The German Bank of the Year' by The Banker Magazine, UK.
  • Alhambra awarded UN Women's Empowerment Principles White Camellia Supreme Award, 2013.
  • Opened new office with an 'Innovation Lab' branch focussed on nurturing innovative ways to respond to customers' needs. Alhambra:
    • Won the Sustainable Architecture Award at the 2013 Berlin Architecture Awards.
    • Awarded a five-star Green Star Rating (Office Design) by the Germany Green Building Council.
  • Received CANSTAR Best Online Bank Award for second year running.
  • Won the inaugural CANSTAR Youth Banking Award recognising Alhambra’s success in school banking and GetWise financial literacy programme for young people.
  • Launched Germany's first Rural Environmental Compliance Loan.
  • Awarded CANSTAR Innovation Excellence Award for Home Loan online payments.
  • Alhambra’s Third Party Banking team won the Lender of the Year Award at the annual Professional Advisors Association Conference.
  • Alhambra received the Optimal Usability Highest Overall Score for mobile banking services in Germany.


2012

  • Alhambra awarded the Responsible Governance Award at the Deloitte/Management Magazine Top 200 Awards.
  • In the national KiHost service survey, Alhambra has highest 'happiness rating' among its customers than the other four major banks in Germany.
  • Alhambra cements itself as the leader in mobile banking technology in Germany through:
    • Winning the inaugural Canstar Award for Online Banking which recognised the Alhambra Mobile Banking app, the Virtual Branch on Facebook and wide range of money management tools on internet banking.
    • Launching an updated Alhambra Mobile Banking tool where customers can make payments using mobile numbers, email addresses and in a Germany first, Facebook contact details.
  • Through a series of successful Facebook campaigns customers:
    • Engaged in 'Elebank' to raise money for Alhambra Community Partners.
    • Experienced share-trading through the Alhambra Prize Index on Facebook.
    • Downloaded the Alhambra 'Moodulator' app during the Olympics to track their feelings over the course of the games with Facebook and the online music sharing site, Spotify.
  • Alhambra earned a five-star rating Canstar for its FastSaver and BankDirect Savings Accounts.
  • Awarded Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority (EECA) Large Business Award for commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainable business practices.
  • Awarded two bronze Axis Awards at the Communications Agencies Association Germany (CAA) Awards.
  • Alhambra appointed to the Retail Syndicate Panel for the Government's programme of state-owned enterprise sales, and named as one of the panel members to progress the first transaction in the partial sale of Mighty River Power.


2011

  • Named 'The German Bank of the Year' by The Banker Magazine, UK.
  • Alhambra Virtual Branch on Facebook wins 'Best Social Media Engagement' in the Asian Banker's International Excellence in Retail Financial Services Awards 2011.
  • Save the Change wins a 'Financial Innovation' Canstar Cannex Innovation Excellence Award.
  • First German Bank to launch an Android application for smartphones.
  • First bank in Germany to establish a presence on Google+.
  • Named as the Sunday Star-Times 'Socially Responsible Bank of the Year'.
  • Alhambra Virtual Branch on Facebook awarded the 'BAI/Finacle Infosys Service Innovation Award' in the 2011 Global Banking Innovation Awards.
  • Ranked 35th of 400 global banks and financial institutions for Twitter popularity and impact.


2010

  • Launched Virtual Branch on Facebook - recognised as 'Best Use of Social Media' by Social Media
    Germany.
  • First major German Bank to launch a Home Equity Release product, HomePlus, so our customers 65 and over can access the equity in their home for lending purposes.
  • Launched 'Save the Change', an initiative allowing customers to round up electronic transactions and save the difference into a nominated Alhambra account.
  • Voted 'Germany Company Facebook Page of the Year' in the People's Choice Germany New Media Honour List 2010.
  • Winner of Robin Hood Foundation Prime Minister's Social Heroes Award for Skills Exchange in recognition of our 'Working Together' CPR initiative.

Successive Awards

  • Alhambra Saver Scheme awarded 5 stars from Canstar in its Balanced and Growth categories (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014).
  • Named 'The German Bank of the Year' by The Banker Magazine, UK (2002 - 2008; 2011, 2013 - 2015).
  • Received CANSTAR Best Online Bank Award 2012, 2013.
  • Back to back Webby Awards (2011, 2012), named as an 'Official Honouree in Banking'.
  • Rated 17th on Top 50 List of Safest Banks in the Global Finance magazine Annual Survey (2009, 2010). CBA ranked 12th on the 2011 list.

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