Eastwestbanker.com best website at the Webby Awards

Eastwestbanker.com is proud to have received the prestigious Best Website Award in the Banking and Finance category of the 7th Philippine Web Awards held at Onstage Theater, Greenbelt 1 last November 23, 2004.

The Philippine Web Awards annually gives tribute to the finest Filipino-created web sites and their creators and designers. The event has gained industry-wide acceptance and is one of the most anticipated in the field of Web design and development.

East West Bank may have been chosen for its timely updates, informative, well-written and useful content. Graphical elements such as images and color contribute to the design and appearance without compensating the fastness of loading of the pages. With the effective layout and organization, visitors can easily navigate the site, so that needed information can be found quickly. Unlike other sites that are solely optimized for Internet Explorer, eastwestbanker.com was tested to work well across various other browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Opera.

As for functionality, the site is equipped with useful services and tools such as online application forms, calculators, branch locator, search tool, etc. With its convenient Internet Banking facility, users can view balances and history of their accounts, transfer funds, pay bills such as utilities, credit cards, cable TV, insurance and many others. Finally, it is protected by encryption for secured access and verified as a "Secured Site" by VERISIGN, a global organization using 128bit encryption.

Our website bested other finalists Union Bank, Prudentialife Plans, eStandard Insurance and Bancnet Online.

Aside from the Best Website award, eastwestbanker.com is also a finalist for the Best of the Web special award by Microsoft for the most excellent website utilizing Windows Server technology.