Kathmandu. Global IME Bank Limited has been awarded with Global Finance Magazine’s Best Bank Award 2025. The award was handed over to Chairman of Global Finance Chandra Prasad Dhakal and CEO Surendra Raj Regmi amidst a function held in USA on Saturday.
Global IME Bank has been named as the Bank’s outstanding bank for the year 2025 in terms of reliability, financial resource mobilization, expansion of reach, establishing strategic relationships, development of professional and customer-friendly services, and credit rating.
Along with this award, Global IME Bank has been awarded with the Best Bank Award by Global Finance Magazine for 2 consecutive years. Global Finance also honored Global IME Bank in 2024.
Chairman of Global IME Bank, Mr. Dhakal expressed his gratitude to the government, Nepal Rastra Bank, other regulatory bodies, shareholders, employees and the entire customers for the recognition given to the bank.
Global Finance Magazine has honored the best banks in Africa, Asia Pacific, Caribbean, Central America, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, North America and Western Europe.
Global IME Bank is the first Nepali bank to be recognized with this prestigious award by Global Finance. Global Finance has given this prestigious award to the best central banks and commercial banks of the world.
Global Finance has honored HSBC Bank of Hong Kong, State Bank of India (India), China Construction Bank of China, Global IME Bank (Nepal), UOB Malaysia (Malaysia), Citibank (Bangladesh), SMBC (Japan) among others for the year 2025.
Global Finance’s “Best Bank of Nepal” honor Global IME Bank has encouraged the bank to provide creative services in the coming days.
This is the second time that Global IME Bank has been awarded with the Best Bank Award. Earlier, Global IME Bank was awarded with Global Finance’s Best Bank Award 2024.
In the past, Global IME Bank has been honored by various national and international organizations in different categories. Bank of the Year 2014, Best Internet Bank 2016, Best Bank Nepal 2024/2025, Euro Money Award for Excellence 2022, 2024/2025, Best Bank ESG Nepal 2024, Best Employer etc.
Global IME Bank is the first commercial bank in the private sector in Nepal with branches in seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The bank has been providing its services through a network of 352 branches, 384 ATM outlets, 155 branchless banking units, 68 extension and revenue collection counters and 3 foreign relations offices.
Apart from providing banking services to Nepalese citizens, the bank has also been providing remittance services to various countries of the world. The bank has been receiving remittances from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, India, Jordan and other countries.
