NCB Wins Double Awards at HR Asia Awards 2025

On August 14, 2025, at the HR Asia Awards (HRAA) 2025 ceremony, the National Citizen Commercial Joint Stock Bank (NCB) won a double award: “Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2025” and “Tech Empowerment Awards 2025,” marking NCB’s milestone on the journey of building a “new HR destination” in the financial and banking sector in Vietnam.

With the theme "Multi-Generation Synergy," HR Asia Awards 2025 honored companies with multi-generational workplaces where collaborative development is emphasized, demonstrated in operations ,and creating sustainable value for businesses and the community.

In addition, amid the strong global digital transformation trend, HRAA for the first time honored the category “Tech Empowerment Awards 2025” for enterprises in Vietnam, in order to recognize organizations applying technology to workplace innovation, enhancing employee experience, and promoting operational performance.

NCB wins double awards at HR Asia Awards 2025.

By building an engaging, effective work environment connected with digital culture development, NCB was excellently honored in both categories above.

In the category “Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2025,” NCB was honored with an excellent score of 4.67/5 points. In particular, all three factors—Core values, Self values, Group values—achieved scores of 4.53 – 4.69 – 4.78 respectively, far surpassing the average score of surveyed enterprises and higher than NCB’s own scores in previous years. This is also the third consecutive year that NCB has received this prestigious award from HRAA.

In 2025, human resources work continues to be one of the key focuses invested and developed by NCB. The bank continuously builds and improves comprehensive HR policies, focusing on human development, team cohesion, and talent attraction with six main pillars: Compensation and benefits; Development opportunities; Culture and environment; Empowering leadership; Ideal work; and Corporate reputation. Up to now, NCB has been known as a “new destination” for banking human resources.

This is the 3rd consecutive year that NCB has been honored as “Best Companies to Work for in Asia.”

With a workforce consisting of three generations, of which Gen Y and Gen Z account for the majority, and many new senior personnel joining the system in recent years, NCB has focused on strategies for service quality development and digital transformation capability, team cohesion, and development of a multi-generational environment full of opportunities for growth, challenges, and advancement.

Not only shaping an increasingly distinctive NCB HR DNA, all NCB’s activities closely follow the five core values “Loyalty – Trust – Dedication – Sophistication – Flourishment,” acting as the red thread forming NCB’s identity in the market and connecting NCB staff into a unified whole. There, all differences are respected and encouraged so that generations complement, share, and learn from each other, creating the image of NCB people in the new era—dynamic, creative, passionate, and wholeheartedly devoted to NCB’s breakthrough developments and bringing good values to the community.

Sharing about the award, Mr. Ta Kieu Hung, CEO of NCB, said, “We create attraction from compensation policies that can be affirmed as competitive in the market, broad development opportunities for employees, especially young talents, with the guidance of an experienced, dedicated, visionary, and capable senior management team, along with an open empowerment mechanism. NCB employees are equipped with the necessary tools and skills to flexibly, promptly, and effectively adapt to the development context in the new era, bonded by diverse internal activities and a corporate culture that we nurture every day.”

NCB also wins the “Tech Empowerment Awards 2025” right in the first year of participation.

This year, NCB also won the “Tech Empowerment Awards 2025” right in the first year of participation. This is the result of the bank’s strong investment and improvement in technology infrastructure and solutions over the past year, with one of the major goals of these projects being to establish a modern, dynamic digital workplace that optimizes efficiency and enhances employee experience. At the same time, building a “digital culture”—where people, technology, and data resonate in the digital era to create achievements in the new era.

'“We are consistent with the view that people are the most valuable asset of the bank, and it is the staff themselves who are the strength and driving force of NCB, making the bank’s success. Together, we are building a happy workplace where every NCB employee enjoys living and working every day, contributing to the development of the organization and the community,” affirmed Mr. Ta Kieu Hung.

It is known that in the past three years, NCB has consolidated its human resources apparatus with the participation of many personnel at various levels with extensive expertise. Up to now, NCB is one of the banks possessing a team of personnel, especially senior staff, with rich experience, professional competence, and management capacity in the financial and banking market.

HRAA is a prestigious and annual international award organized by HR Asia Magazine, to evaluate and honor enterprises with outstanding HR policies, attractive compensation, and top workplace environments in the region.

The evaluation and selection are conducted according to the Total Engagement Assessment Model (TEAM) and through in-depth interviews to accurately assess units according to the strict criteria of the award.