By leveraging nCino’s state-of-the-art technology to transform its services, Santander UK has been named the winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Commercial Lending. The Bank’s initial implementation of the nCino Bank Operating System is just the start of its roadmap with nCino, and it plans to continue to grow the partnership in the future.

We are thrilled to announce that Santander UK has been named the winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Commercial Lending. This award comes after the bank underwent a digital transformation by utilizing the nCino Bank Operating System and other enabling tools. In partnership with nCino and other technology companies, the bank was able to replace 13 disparate systems and over 60 end-user computing systems with a cloud-based ecosystem.

“The Model Bank Awards recognize how banks are using technology to change the face of banking," says Patricia Hine, CTP and Head of Corporate Banking at Celent. She says:

In recent years, German banks have been facing several challenges, including changing customer demands, regulatory changes, and changing socio-economic trends. As a result, the German banking sector is undergoing a period of rapid transformation, and banks are having to adapt in order to remain competitive and profitable in the future.

The banks that are best equipped to emerge and succeed in an uncertain future are those who are embracing an innovation mind set and embedding flexibility and a positive attitude toward change into their organizational fabric. One bank leading the way is Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB).

With representation across Germany’s metropolitan regions and in select markets in Europe, HCOB is a Hamburg-based commercial bank and specialty financier, serving commercial clients and financing projects in the real estate and shipping sector, as well as in the renewable energy and infrastructure industry.

Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) has a growing, wide-spread customer base with diverse needs. That’s just one reason the ICCU has partnered with nCino across multiple lines of business—and why they knew nCino would be able to help them transform their business lending processes.

Arrow Financial Corporation’s goal is to meet customers wherever they want to be met. In order to make this possible, the Bank has implemented multiple nCino solutions, offering digitalexperiences to their customers while maintaining the strong human-to-human relationships that are vital to the Arrow culture.

PeoplesBank is a community bank focused on building strong customer relationships and delivering excellent customer service. Learn how Amy Doll, who has been with the Bank through multiple nCino implementations, is helping PeoplesBank to serve its small business customers well with additional rollouts of nCino’s Small Business Banking Solution.

Allied Irish Banks, or AIB, is a financial services group based in Ireland whose core services are Retail, Business and Corporate Banking. As one of the largest financial institutions in Ireland, the Bank serves its 2.8 million customers at over 200 branches throughout the country.

Agricultural lenders face unique challenges, and their customers have specific needs. That’s why institutions like Agricultural Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) are partnering with nCino to meet these challenges with technology that is transforming the agricultural lending industry.

Emprise Bank serves 20 communities with 33 branch and commercial offices across the state of Kansas. The Bank prides itself on having an innovative culture driven by technology and a mission to provide the best experience for their customers.As the Bank grew over the past decade, its legacy loan operating systems couldn’t keep up. As a result, they were no longer able to offer their customers the experience, speed and service they needed and deserved.

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