Operating across 251 customer centres island wide, HNB PLC is Sri Lanka's largest private sector commercial bank, having been declared Bank of the Year 2017 by the prestigious British financial magazine The Banker, in recognition of its performance as the most profitable banking group and for introducing unprecedented innovations to the domestic banking industry. HNB was adjudged 'Best Retail Bank 2017 in Sri Lanka' for the 9th time while being recognized as having the 'Best Micro finance Product in the Asia Pacific Region'. The 'Asia Money Magazine' awarded HNB 'Best Bank for SME' and the 'Best Bank for CSR' in the country'. CFA Sri Lanka bestowed HNB with a 'Bronze' award for Investor Relations while HNB's Annual Report was adjudged to be among the top 10 integrated reports at the CMA Sri Lanka awards 2017. HNB's leadership in technology was also recognized with the Bank's ATM network being awarded the 'Best ATM Network of the Year' at the Lanka Pay Technnovation Awards 2017. Furthermore, HNB moved up the ranks to be No. 3 in the LMD Top 100 Companies and to the No. 2 position in Business Today top 30 rankings, which places HNB as the highest ranked bank in both these rankings. HNB is the first local Bank in Sri Lanka to receive an international rating on par with the sovereign from Moody's Investor Services while maintaining a national long term rating of AA - (lka) from Fitch Ratings Lanka Ltd. And amongst the top 1000 banks in the world by The Banker.