Awards and Achievements
First Citizens Bank celebrates over a decade of firsts. Some of these achievements are as follows:
2024
- Trinidad and Tobago’s Best Digital Bank by Euromoney Awards for Excellence
- Best Performing Bank in Trinidad & Tobago by The Banker Magazine Top 30 Caribbean Banks Ranking 2024
2023
- 2023 Bank of the Year – Trinidad & Tobago by LatinFinance
2022
- #1 in Top 10 for Soundness by The Banker Magazine
2021
- 2021 Bank of the Year – Trinidad and Tobago by LatinFinance
- 2021 Bank of the Year Trinidad and Tobago – Banker Magazine – (The Bank of the Year awards are held annually by the Banker Magazine, a Financial Times publication based in London, UK, and are bestowed upon institutions that have set the industry for banking excellence globally.)
2020
- Bank of the Year Caribbean 2020 – LatinFinance
2017
- Bank of the Year 2017– The Banker
- Safest Bank in T&T 2017 – Global Finance
2016
- Euromoney Award for Banking Excellence 2016 – Best Bank in Trinidad
2015
- First Citizens wins another award: Best Banking Group 2015 – Trinidad and Tobago from World Finance
- Standard and Poor’s reaffirms First Citizens counter-party credit rating of ‘BBB+/A-2’
2014
- First Citizens wins two World Finance Awards: Best Retail Bank Trinidad and Tobago and Best Commercial Bank Trinidad and Tobago
2013
- First Citizens Bank Limited Initial Public Offering – 48, 495, 665 Ordinary shares
- Euromoney Award for Excellence 2013
2012
- Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s maintained the Group’s investment grade rating at BBB+ and Baa1
- The Banker Magazine – Best Bank in Trinidad & Tobago and one of the Top 1,000 World Banks
2011
- Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s maintained the Group’s investment grade rating at BBB+ and Baa1
- Global Finance rating as one of the Safest Emerging Markets Banks in Latin America
2010
- World Finance’s “Best Bank 2010”
- Global Finance – Rated among the top 5 safest Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean
2009
- World Finance – Best Bank Trinidad & Tobago World Finance Banking Award 2009
- Latin Finance – LatinFinance Bank of the Year 2009
- The Banker Magazine – Bank of the Year 2009
Our List of Firsts
2005
- First Bank to establish an Energy Focused Investment Mutual Fund
- First indigenous financial institution to issue US$100M bonds in the international financial market.
2003
- First and only local bank to be accepted into International Finance Corporation’s B-Loan programme.
2001
- First and only Bank to be awarded the Tyrone Samlalsingh Pinnacle Award for e-innovation (Awarded again in 2003 and 2005).
2000
- First Bank in the English-speaking Caribbean to launch an Internet Banking Service.
1995
- First Citizens introduced MIDAS, the first online, real-time cash-management system for companies and statutory bodies. This service was upgraded in 2002.
1994
- First local bank to issue an international VISA Gold Credit Card. Standard & Poor’s Rating Service – affirmation of its counter-party credit rating and CD rating of ‘BBB+/A-2’
