{"id":10115,"date":"2022-02-02T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?p=10115"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:48:49","slug":"biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6752\" src=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIATnew.jpg\" alt=\"BIAT\" width=\"600\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIATnew.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIATnew-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BIAT (Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie \/ International Arab Bank of Tunisia) has grown through a series of strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions since its launch in 1976. The universal bank has diversified its offering and established subsidiaries to provide insurance, asset management, private equity, stock market intermediation and advisory services. BIAT deploys a workforce of 2000 employees to serve individual and corporate clients through 205 branches. The bank is led by an experienced board of directors and supported by strategic supervisory committees, including those for compliance, audit and risk. All employees understand that compliance \u2014 the adherence to legal and ethical mandates \u2014 is a daily priority. The compliance committee has an independent structure that affords the autonomy to manage risks and reports directly to the CEO and board. Another independent entity oversees anti-money laundering prevention, mainly via IT tools and personnel training. BIAT goes beyond mere compliance requirements to fulfil a deeper imperative as a force for good. It established the BIAT Youth Foundation in 2014 to consolidate its CSR efforts around education, culture and entrepreneurship. BIAT supported local communities during the pandemic by donating $6.6m to the Ministry of Health fund, organising relief initiatives through the foundation and implementing strict measures onsite to protect employees and clients. It extended a lifeline to businesses affected by Covid, giving them the necessary credit to survive the storm. The CFI.co judging panel presents repeat programme winner <a href=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/menu\/corporate\/2022\/05\/biat-supporting-clients-thriving-in-challenging-era\/\">BIAT<\/a> with the 2021 award for Best Bank Governance (Tunisia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIAT (Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie \/ International Arab Bank of Tunisia) has grown through a series of strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions since its launch in 1976. The universal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10,12,23,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-banking","category-best-practice","category-corporate-governance","category-front"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021 - CFI.co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BIAT (Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie \/ International Arab Bank of Tunisia) has grown through a series of strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions since its launch in 1976. The universal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CFI.co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapitalFinanceInternational\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-02T16:03:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-01T15:48:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"349\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"218\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"marten\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CFIMagazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CFIMagazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"marten\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"marten\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/e3ad9b01223c3a8168d49fc9b884a909\"},\"headline\":\"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-02T16:03:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-01T15:48:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Africa\",\"Banking\",\"Best Practice\",\"Corporate Governance\",\"FRONT\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\",\"name\":\"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021 - CFI.co\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-02T16:03:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-01T15:48:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/e3ad9b01223c3a8168d49fc9b884a909\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg\",\"width\":349,\"height\":218,\"caption\":\"BIAT-new-thumb\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/\",\"name\":\"CFI.co\",\"description\":\"Awards\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/e3ad9b01223c3a8168d49fc9b884a909\",\"name\":\"marten\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cba215529388907795149c7f3a29e812b17a839430ad09073ac8adeb2fd3b7f4?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cba215529388907795149c7f3a29e812b17a839430ad09073ac8adeb2fd3b7f4?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"marten\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/author\/marten\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021 - CFI.co","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021","og_description":"BIAT (Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie \/ International Arab Bank of Tunisia) has grown through a series of strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions since its launch in 1976. The universal","og_url":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/","og_site_name":"CFI.co","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapitalFinanceInternational\/","article_published_time":"2022-02-02T16:03:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-01T15:48:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":349,"height":218,"url":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"marten","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@CFIMagazine","twitter_site":"@CFIMagazine","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"marten","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/"},"author":{"name":"marten","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/e3ad9b01223c3a8168d49fc9b884a909"},"headline":"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021","datePublished":"2022-02-02T16:03:09+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-01T15:48:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/"},"wordCount":244,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg","articleSection":["Africa","Banking","Best Practice","Corporate Governance","FRONT"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/","url":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/","name":"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021 - CFI.co","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-02T16:03:09+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-01T15:48:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/e3ad9b01223c3a8168d49fc9b884a909"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BIAT-new-thumb.jpg","width":349,"height":218,"caption":"BIAT-new-thumb"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2022\/biat-best-bank-governance-tunisia-2021\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BIAT: Best Bank Governance Tunisia 2021"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/","name":"CFI.co","description":"Awards","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/e3ad9b01223c3a8168d49fc9b884a909","name":"marten","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cba215529388907795149c7f3a29e812b17a839430ad09073ac8adeb2fd3b7f4?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cba215529388907795149c7f3a29e812b17a839430ad09073ac8adeb2fd3b7f4?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"marten"},"url":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/author\/marten\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}