Insurance and investment firm CIC Group has been feted as the winner of the Decade of Excellence Insurance Kenya 2021Award during the 2021 Global Banking & Finance Awards.
The awards reflect the innovation, achievement, strategy, progressive and inspirational changes taking place within the financial sector.
Patrick Nyaga, CIC Group CEO said, “we are proud to be recognised globally. This award echoes our continued commitment to our clients to provide world class insurance services for the past decade”.
“We have continued to innovatively create customized products for our clients that meet their needs in an evolving world. We have strived to ‘keep our word’ to our customers in the past decade and we are glad that this effort has been recognised globally,” said Joseph Karimi, CIC General Manager – Marketing and Customer Experience.
In December 2020, CIC General insurance was declared the Best Automotive Insurer at the Automotive Industry Excellence Awards, 2020, coming a year after the company won the Most Preferred Private Vehicle Insurer at the same awards held in 2019.
CIC was also feted as the best Motor Insurer at the Cheki Awards in December 2020 at a time the company was repositioning itself to become the market leader in general business.
Other Kenyan companies featured in the awards include Sumac Microfinance Bank, which won the 2021 Microfinance Bank Customer Satisfaction & Happiness. Standard Chartered was named the Best Digital Bank Kenya 2021, while Co-operative Bank of Kenya was named the Best SME bank and the Best Bank for Auto Loans in Kenya for this 2021.
Sterling Capital Limited was named the Best Investment bank Kenya 2021.
The Global Banking and Finance Awards reflects the innovation, achievement, strategy, progressive and inspirational changes taking place within the Global Financial community. The awards are created to recognize companies of all sizes which are prominent in particular areas of expertise and excellence within the financial world.