Mbanq Awarded Best Corporate Brand at MENAA 2021

At a splendid ceremony set in the wonderful Conrad Hotel in Istanbul, Mbanq has been awarded the prestigious MENAA Best Brands Award 2021, certified by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

There to accept the award was Mbanq Founder and CTO Lars A. Rottweiler, sharing the stage with a host of distinguished guests, including 3 former prime ministers of European Union countries: Matteo Renzi of Italy, Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium and Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden.

Following in the footsteps of previous MENAA award winners, including Vodafone, AXA Insurance and Turkish Airlines, the awarding committee commended Mbanq on its outstanding achievements and distinguished efforts within the Banking-as-a-Service industry (BaaS).

Mbanq was also credited for introducing its novel Credit-Union-as-a-Service concept (CUaaS), focused primarily on de novo credit unions in the US market.

Presenting the award, international motivational speaker, Sepehr Tarverdian, said, “Mbanq is a word-leading banking as a service provider headquartered in Silicon Valley. It continues to be one of the fastest growing FinTechs in the world.”

Over the past five years Mbanq has established itself as a leading banking technology innovator and credit union system provider. The company quickly reached profitability and became one of the fastest growing FinTechs in the world. Today it serves dozens of banking and credit union clients around the globe.

The glamorous presentation ceremony was attended by high profile European politicians, as well as celebrity and sporting figures, including 1990 Soccer World Cup Winner Lothar Matthaus, 4-time Champions League Winner Clarence Seedorf, and the world’s most famous soccer referee Pierluigi Collina.

On receiving the award, Lars Rottweiler, Mbanq’s CTO and Founder, said,

“Mbanq’s teams have worked very hard to develop and present the very best banking technology in existence and I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of everyone in the Mbanq family.”

Mbanq’s business model is to set up and operate banks and credit unions as a service. It offers a comprehensive digital banking and financial services ecosystem that includes modern digital banking technology, legislative, anti-money laundering and risk management support, as well as customer-facing digital banking apps that can be tailored and personalized to fit any organization. It provides everything a company needs to set up and run a bank or credit union and will operate the entire technology stack as an uninterrupted service.