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PAObank has received the "Best SME Partner Award" 2024 at The Hong Kong General Chamber of Small and Medium Business. This accolade stands as a testament to its unwavering commitment to delivering innovative financial solutions, giving full support to SMEs to develop their businesses.

PAObank has been honoured with the Excellence Performance in the category of "Virtual Bank of the Year" at the Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition Financial Institution Awards 2024. This recognition unequivocally affirms PAObank's commitment to constructing a comprehensive virtual banking ecosystem.

PAObank has been bestowed with the "Best Digital SME Financing" at the Asian Banker Hong Kong Excellence in Retail Finance and Technology Innovation Awards 2024, a recognition that underscores the Bank’s relentless dedication to providing digitalised financial technology solutions.

PAObank has been recognised as "Best SME Bank in Hong Kong" at the Digital Banker Global SME Banking Innovation Awards 2024. The accolade stands as a testament to its efforts to delivering efficient and customer–centric digitalised banking services to SMEs.

PAObank has been awarded the distinction of "Virtual Bank of the Year – SME Banking" at The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2024, a tribute to its pursuit of enhancing the SME banking service by incorporating innovative financial technology.

PAObank won the Outstanding Virtual SME Banking Services award at the ETNet Fintech Awards 2023. This recognition is a testament to its dedication to elevating SME banking services and promoting financial inclusion in Hong Kong.

PAObank was included in the “SME Banking in HKSAR – Highly Regarded Tier” in Euromoney Market Leaders for the second consecutive year, reaffirming its efforts of providing quality SME banking services in Hong Kong.

PAObank was bagged “Best FinTech Award (Merit)”at CAHK STAR Awards 2023, recognising its achievements in the development of FinTech.

PAOB has successfully injected new vitality into the digitalised SME financial services sector and received 01 FinTech Excellence Awards 2023 - SMEs Virtual Banking Service from HK01, reaffirming its efforts in bringing faster, more convenient and cost-effective banking services to SMEs.

As a virtual bank operating in a dynamic and complex regulatory landscape, PAOB legal team’s unwavering dedication and expertise have played a vital role in the business success and received Technology, Media and Telecommunications In-House Team of the Year at Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2023 for the first time.

PAOB is committed to leveraging financial technology to create a sustainable future and promoting environmental, social and governance (ESG) development, and received Excellent ESG and Smart Living Enterprises 2023 from HK01. It is a great encouragement to PAOB in promoting sustainable development.

PAOB received "The Best SME Partner" from The Hong Kong General Chamber of Small and Medium Business, recognising its outstanding performance in providing flexible and convenient SME banking services.

PAOB was once again awarded the "Best Bank for SMEs in Hong Kong” at the Asiamoney Best Bank Awards for the second year running, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to financial inclusion and outstanding achievements in serving SMEs in the virtual banking sector.

PAOB is proud to announce that we have been awarded Excellence Performance in the “Virtual Bank of the Year” category at the Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition Financial Institution Awards 2023, the only virtual bank in Hong Kong to receive this distinction. This recognition affirms PAOB's outstanding performance in SMEs banking services.

PAOB was named the Virtual Bank of The Year - SME in the Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2023, reaffirming its leading market position in SME virtual banking.

Business Focus recognised PAOB's flexible and convenient SME banking services with Outstanding SME Virtual Banking Award.

The Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC) awarded PAOB with Silver Award again at Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme, reaffirming its effort of promoting web accessibility.

PAOB received Innovative Virtual Banking Services from Sing Tao, recognising the Bank's outstanding SME virtual banking services.

PAOB was named Outstanding Virtual SME Banking Services by ETNet. The award recognises the efforts of the Bank towards transforming SME banking services.

PAOB was awarded “Best FinTech Award” bronze award, reaffirming the Bank’s remarkable achievements in the use of alternative data and and promoting financial inclusion.

PAOB won Best Credit Risk Technology Implementation at The Asian Banker Hong Kong Awards 2022, affirming PAOB's contribution on fintech development.

PAOB won the Financial Services Awards of Excellence 2022 – Virtual Banking for SMEs by Hong Kong Economic Journal, highlighting PAOB’s outstanding performance in the past year in SME virtual banking services and recognising its contributions to Hong Kong’s financial inclusion development.

PAOB is pleased to announce it has won the "SME Virtual Banking Services Award of Excellence" at the NOW Business News Channel Leadership Business Award for the second consecutive year, showcasing PAOB’s efforts in promoting financial inclusion and providing quality banking services for SME customers.

PAOB was included in the “SME Banking in HKSAR – Highly Regarded Tier" in Euromoney Market Leaders 2022, reaffirming PAOB’s efforts in enhancing SME banking experience in Hong Kong.

PAOB has received “Hong Kong’s Best Bank for SMEs” at the Asiamoney Best Bank Awards 2022, recognising PAOB's outstanding performance as a virtual bank for SMEs in the market.

PAOB ranked the highest among virtual banks in Hong Kong and came in 45th among all digital banks in the Global Top 100 Digital Bank Ranking 2022 released by TABInsights, the research arm of The Asian Banker, reaffirming PAOB’s outstanding business performance.

PAOB was awarded as "Best Use of Data and Analytics for CX" at The Digital Banker’s Digital CX Awards 2022, recoganising its contribution of improving SME banking service experience with the use of alternative credit scoring model.

PAOB is elected as one of the “top 20 FinTech Scale-ups” in the first Greater Bay Area FinTech Flying Fish Enterprises 20 Election. This is a strong testament to the Bank’s innovative business model and fintech achievements. Supported by Shenzhen Municipal Financial Regulatory Bureau, Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology, Innovation and Technology Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR and InvestHK, the Election is organised by Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao FinTech Alliance, Shenzhen FinTech Association and Hong Kong Computer Society, as well as co-organised by KPMG China.

PAOB was named Outstanding Virtual SME Banking Services and FinTech of the Year 2021 in Start-up by ETNet. The awards recognise PAOB's continuous efforts in bringing efficient virtual banking services to SMEs, as well as promoting fintech development.

PAOB received "LinkedIn Rising Star" (Below 1000 employees on LinkedIn) at Talent Awards 2021, recognising the great work in employee engagement and talent acquisition in the year.

PAOB won “TGT Best FinTech Award” silver award of CAHK STAR Awards 2021. The award recognises the Bank’s remarkable achievements in promoting fintech development and enhancing customers’ banking experience.

PAOB won "SME Virtual Banking Services Award of Excellence" at NOW Business News Channel Leadership Business Award 2021, affirming its commitment to provide better banking and financing services for SMEs.

PAOB, the pioneer providing virtual bank services for SMEs in Hong Kong, received 01 FinTech Excellence Awards 2021 - SMEs Virtual Banking Service from HK01, reaffirming its efforts in enhancing customers' experience in banking services.

PAOB received the “Platinum Award (Banking Tech)” in the IFTA FinTech Achievement Awards 2020, recognising PAOB's outstanding performance in fintech, big data analytics and innovation.

The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB) recognised PAOB with the “HKIB Talent Development Award”, the only virtual bank to win this title.

PAOB was recognised by Ming Pao Newspaper with the “Award for Excellence in SME Service” (Virtual Bank) in the Awards for Excellence in Finance, reaffirming the efforts and achievements of PAOB in providing effective and timely SME banking services.

PAOB won “Best Risk Management Project” at The Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2021, recognising PAOB's outstanding performance in risk management with the revolutionary Alternative Credit Scoring Model.

The Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC) awarded PAOB a Silver Award and recognised its efforts with a Friendly Website certificate at Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme 2020-2021.

PAOB was awarded “Best Fintech for Digital CX-Business Lender” at the 2021 Digital CX Awards by The Digital Banker for its best-in-class SME customer experience excellence.

PAOB was honoured to win “FinTech Awards 2020 – Outstanding Virtual SME Banking Services” at the ETNet Fintech Awards 2020. It cements PAOB’s achievements in providing virtual SME banking services in Hong Kong.

PAOB was featured in the white paper titled “Alternative Credit Scoring of Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute. PAOB's alternative credit scoring model is the only use case among all banks in Hong Kong to showcase on how to deploy alternative data in the paper.