YES bank comes up trumps

India's YES Bank has gained one of the main prizes in this year's FT Sustainable Banking Awards.

YES, which has taken the Emerging Markets Regional Leadership title for Asia, was said by the judges to have 'an ambitious vision coupled with concrete targets across a portfolio from clean tech and SRI to structured microfinance products'.

ASA, the Bangladeshi institution, took the Banking at the Bottom of the Pyramid award. It has designed its own microfinance model - the ASA Cost-effective and Sustainable Microfinance Model - which has been adopted by many organizations in different countries.