Citibank Honours Doha Bank With Us Dollar Payments Straight Through Processing Excellence Award

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Published December 3rd, 2019 - 10:20 GMT

Citibank Honours Doha Bank With Us Dollar Payments Straight Through Processing Excellence Award

During the event

Highlights

Citibank has chosen Doha Bank for “US Dollar Payments Straight Through Processing Excellence Award” .

Doha Bank CEO, Dr. R. Seetharaman received this award and commented “We are proud to receive this prestigious award from Citibank. This award acknowledges the Bank’s outstanding performance in the execution of payments in Dollars seamlessly.

This award is conferred annually to the best-in-class banks by their main USD clearer in recognition to their success in correctly formatting foreign currency payments. “Straight Through Processing” means that the payments sent to the bank for clearing by its correspondents are being processed automatically without human intervention.

Doha Bank achieved a STP rate of 99% for all Treasury and Commercial payments in 2019.

Doha Bank operations are geographically spread across strategic locations in Qatar. The bank also operates 6 full-fledged branches in UAE, Kuwait and India, and has representative offices across the globe encompassing a robust and strategic network of correspondent banking relationships.

Background Information

Doha Bank

Inaugurated in 1979, Doha Bank provides domestic and international banking services for individuals, commercial, corporate and institutional clients through four business groups – Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, International Banking and Treasury & Investments.

Doha Bank has established overseas branches in Kuwait, Dubai (UAE), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi (India) as well as representative offices in Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, South Korea, Australia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.