Bank of Cyprus continues to strengthen its position in digital banking. As part of the World’s Best Digital Bank Awards 2026, organized by international financial magazine Global Finance, the bank received 14 awards. This represents a noticeable increase from 2025, when Bank of Cyprus received 11 awards under the same program. In other words, the number of international digital banking awards increased by 3 in one year, while at the Cyprus level the bank received 5 new awards.
At the Western Europe level, Bank of Cyprus retained two awards:
- Best in Social Media Marketing and Services – Western Europe (Consumer);
- Best in Transformation – Western Europe (Corporate).
The Jinius platform plays a particularly important role in the development of digital services for businesses. It brings together digital services for companies and customers and is one of the key elements of the bank’s digital transformation strategy.
Which awards did the bank receive in Cyprus?
In the Consumer – Cyprus category, covering digital banking services for individual customers, Bank of Cyprus received 8 awards. The main recognition was Best Consumer Digital Bank, naming it the best digital bank for consumers in Cyprus. The bank was also recognized in the following categories:
- Best Personal Finance Management (PFM) Solution;
- The Social & Community Banking Award;
- Best User Experience (UX) Design;
- Best Online Product Offerings;
- Best in Transformation;
- Best in Precision Credit & Lending Award;
- Best in Social Media Marketing & Services.
Three of these awards — Best Personal Finance Management (PFM) Solution, The Social & Community Banking Award and Best User Experience (UX) Design — were new for the bank in 2026.
In the corporate segment, Bank of Cyprus also received 6 awards, including the top recognition of Best Corporate Digital Bank. This group included:
- Best Corporate Digital Bank;
- Best Mobile Banking App;
- Best SME Banking/SME Platform;
- Best in Transformation.
This means the bank received awards in every corporate subcategory in which it was represented.
Jinius and the bank’s digital transformation
The Jinius platform remains one of the main factors behind Bank of Cyprus’s success in digital banking. The bank links its achievements in serving small and medium-sized businesses and in digital transformation to the continued development of the platform.
In 2025, Bank of Cyprus also actively expanded its digital products. These included a digital mortgage, Fleksy — a buy now, pay later service — and Joey, a digital ecosystem for customers ages 9 to 17. In the first half of 2025, the bank reported a record 230,000 unique customer logins to its digital services.
In July 2026, Bank of Cyprus received another major recognition when Euromoney named it Best Digital Bank in Cyprus. The award was based on the bank’s performance between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Among the developments highlighted were the digital mortgage, Fleksy, the expansion of Joey and other online services.
In addition, Global Finance named Bank of Cyprus the best bank in Cyprus in 2026. Among the achievements highlighted by the publication were the launch of Cyprus’s first digital mortgage loan and the continued development of digital banking services.
What the recognition means for Cyprus’s banking market
According to Bank of Cyprus Chief Digital Officer Dimitris Nicolaou, the increase in the number of Global Finance awards reflects the bank’s strategy of continuously improving its digital customer experience. He placed particular emphasis on the new awards for Jinius, personal finance management and user experience.
Global Finance itself notes that modern digital banking is increasingly moving beyond conventional mobile apps and online banking. In 2026, the publication identified artificial intelligence, automation, data analytics, personalization, security and the development of comprehensive digital financial ecosystems as some of the industry’s key trends.
The Best Digital Banks and AI awards ceremony will take place on October 13, 2026 at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. For Bank of Cyprus, this is another international recognition of a digital strategy that is becoming an increasingly important part of the development of Cyprus’s banking sector and its shift from traditional branch-based services toward broader use of online platforms.