First Citizens Bank celebrates over a decade of firsts. Some of these achievements are as follows:

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’
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