Awards and Accolades

IDFC FIRST Bank recognized amongst the 'World's Best Banks 2025’ by Forbes in partnership with Statista

- Forbes

IDFC FIRST Bank recognized amongst India’s Best Employers 2025 by TIME and Statista

- TIME

IDFC FIRST Bank wins FE India’s Best Banks Award for best “Savings Product”

- Financial Express

Mr. V Vaidyanathan wins the Best Banker award at the FE Best Banks Awards

- Financial Express

IDFC FIRST Bank wins the Best Mid-Sized Bank Award

- BFSI

IDFC FIRST Bank wins the 'Digital Sourcing & Decisioning Excellence' award at Lentra

- CNBC-TV18 Digital Lending Summit

Awards & Accolades

2026

IDFC FIRST Bank named 'Most Customer Friendly Bank India'

Best Innovation in Retail Banking, India: Third Consecutive Win

IDFC FIRST Bank Wins Big at JioStar RE.iMAGiNE Awards

Gallup Exceptional Workplace Awards 2026

IDFC FIRST Bank wins Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award

IDFC FIRST Bank recognized as a Top Rated Banking Company

IDFC FIRST Bank recognized as Talent Insights Pioneer

2025

IDFC FIRST Bank Wins Prestigious Green Champion Award

IDFC FIRST Bank wins Best Innovation in Retail Banking

Award for Excellence Achiever Bank

Award for Best Employer

FE Best Banks Awards – Best Digital Bank

Award for Best Customer Management Solutions

The Triple A Treasury Award

Award for Best Digital Payments

World's Best Banks 2025

Best Private Sector Bank Award

Award Best Mobile Banking App and Payments

Leading Private Bank (Mid)

Best MSME Friendly Bank

Jury Special Award for Supporting MSMEs

Award for Best Bank for Creating Awareness among MSMEs, (Private Sector)

2024

Best Savings Product

Banker of The Year

Best Mid-Sized Bank

Digital Sourcing & Decisioning Excellence

Financial Inclusion Initiative

Digital Consumer Banking initiative of the year

Automobile Lending Initiative

India's Leading Private Bank (Mid)

Innovation In Banking

Financial Inclusion

International Banker Award for the Best Innovation

Best Mobile Banking App 2024

Candidate Onboarding experience

The Great Indian Corporate Communication Team Of The Year

Transaction Banking API Capabilities

2023

Best Digital Bank

Onboarding Program

Best CSR Sustainability

ESG (National)

Outstanding Commitment to ESG Performance

Corporate Governance

Best Payment and Collections Solutions

Best Financial Institution with Digital Innovation

Excellence in Banking, financial Services & Insurance

Best Bank Leading the Way in ESG

Sustainability Impact Award

Most Preferred Workplace

Best Innovative Payment Solution of the Year

Zeplin Harmony Award 2023

2022

Innovative Payment Solution of the Year

Most Promising Brand

Most Inspiring CEO

Entrepreneur of the Year 2022

Best Sustainable Banking Strategy

Lending - Large Bank

Most Harmonious Merger – MD & CEO

Best Corporate Governance

Outstanding Digital CX – Internet Banking

Best Private Bank for Wealth Creation & Preservation

Best use of AI for Credit Decisioning

Customer Centricity

2021

Best BFSI Award

Leading Banking Solutions Provider

Breaking Ground in WASH Financing

Best Payments and Collection Solution

Best Sustainable Banking Strategy

Best Consumer Digital Bank

Best Wealth Management Provider for Digital CX

Private Banking Award

2020

Excellence in Water and Sanitation Financing

Most Innovative Bank

Prestigious Brands Of India

2019

Best Savings Account

Utkarsh Puraskar DigiDhan Award

Banking frontiers finnoviti Award

2018

Game Changers of India

Entrepreneur of the Year

Best BFSI Brand

Financial Company of the Year

Most Inspirational Leveraged Management Buyout, India

Outstanding Corporate Transformation

Best co-branded card of the year

NASSCOM DSCI Excellence Award

Product Innovator of the year Award

2017

Innovator of the year

Outstanding Contribution To Financial Inclusion India

Mint SAP Digitalist Award

IDFC Bank Annual General Meeting 2017

Instant Payment Products

Digital Transformation Leader

IDFC Bank at Tiss CLO Awards 2017

IDFC Foundation partnership with NISM

Best Core banking Implementation Project

IDFC Bank listed in LinkedIn's 2017 Top Companies

2016

Most Promising Business Leaders of Asia

Outstanding Performance Award

APEA Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year

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