Diamond Bank Plc has been named and awarded the Best Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Bank in West Africa by the famous Banker Magazine in the 2015 West Africa Awards. The Bank also emerged as the Best Microfinance Bank in West Africa. According to the awarding institution, the awards are in recognition of the Bank’s high value addition to the growth of micro businesses in West African and its leading role in stimulating the productive capacity of the SME as the engine that drives industrialization and sustainable economic growth and development.