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Maib named Best Corporate Bank in Moldova by Euromoney

Maib named Best Corporate Bank in Moldova by Euromoney

We are proud to announce that maib has been named the Best Corporate Bank in Moldova at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2025. This award reflects maib’s leading position in the corporate banking sector, highlighting the trust that corporate clients, partners, and international institutions place in maib. The Euromoney Awards select winners based on a set of different factors including performance metrics, market leadership, client service, innovation and sustainability. Euromoney’s annual awards programme, which was established in 1992, attracts over 2,000 submissions from more than 500 of the world’s leading banks in 113 countries and recognizes excellence across global, regional and individual country categories.

Maib’s Corporate Business Unit serves over 600 corporate customers across Moldova, offering financial solutions to large businesses. In 2024 Corporate Business Unit managed to increase its loan portfolio by 17%, while at the same time achieving a significant decline in non-performing loans. Maib’s comprehensive range of services includes loans, deposits, accounts, payments, trade finance, salary projects, cash collection and other. Relationship management model ensures that customer needs are addressed swiftly and

Maib’s corporate banking highlights


Over the past year, maib has continued to innovate and expand its corporate banking services, achieving some key important milestones, including:
  •      - Total corporate loan portfolio exceeded MDL 12 billion in Q2 2025, an all time high, reflecting the growing trust of Moldovan corporate customers. 
  •      - Maib provided a EUR 18 million loan for the development of a 50 MW photovoltaic park, supporting Moldova’s energy independence.
  •      - Corporate green loan portfolio continued to expand, reaching 19% of the total corporate investment loans as of end of Q1 2025. In parallel, maib integrated environmental and social risk management in all of its corporate lending.
     

Giorgi Shagidze, CEO of maib, commented:

“It is a great honor to be recognized by Euromoney as the Best Corporate Bank in Moldova. This award reflects the trust that our customers place in us. Many of our largest corporate customers have been with the bank for over 25 years, since the very inception of the corporate business unit. I want to express my gratitude to the entire maib Team, our clients and shareholders for their trust and support.”
 
About maib
Maib is the largest bank in Moldova, with a share of 37.3% of deposits and 37.9% of loans of the entire banking system at the end of 1Q 2025. Maib is a disciplined lender with NPL ratio of 1.5% and is well capitalised with CAR of 19.9% as of 31 March 2025. The Bank is of systemic importance to the country, it serves nearly half of the population and is one of the largest private employers in Moldova, with a workforce of over 2,500 people. The Bank is commited to returning capital to shareholders with 45% of its 2024 profits paid out in dividends (totalling nearly EUR 32 million). Since 2018, maib's largest shareholder is a consortium, which includes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Invalda INVL, a leading asset management group in the Baltic States, and Horizon Capital, a private investment fund focused on emerging markets.

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