Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, has been awarded ‘Best Corporate Governance, Africa’, in the financial services category at the 2017 Corporate Governance Awards event, organized by the Ethical Boardroom Magazine, which recognizes outstanding companies who have exhibited exceptional leadership in the area of governance and professional ethics.
Over the years, Ethical Boardroom magazine has consistently delivered in-depth coverage and astute analysis of global governance issues. The editorial team, together with a host of distinguished contributors, tackle the most complex and pressing issues that have a positive and negative influence on boardroom leadership, committees and quorum, ethics and compliance, shareholder engagement, activism and risk management strategies.
According to the Managing Editor of Ethical Boardroom, Spenser Cameron, “Deciding upon which African financial services company had scooped the top prize for 2017 was a hard task, considering all the final nominees had excelled and over-achieved in their governance practices over the last twelve months, however, there could only be one winner and that was Nigeria’s very own Guaranty Trust Bank.