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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 1 AUGUST 2021 16 COMMERCIAL Frank Salt Real Estate announces winners of #MyGreenCorner competition IN a bid to further engage with its audience and raise awareness for a greener urban landscape, Frank Salt Real Estate recently ran a competition on its social media channels encouraging participants to post photos of their green spaces at home. The winners for each compe- tition category were announced earlier this July and included Trisha Smith, Steve Compagno and Maureen Corrado Cristi- na. They managed to garner a collective 1320 Likes for the entries, and received a gas BBQ worth €545 from OK Home; a €500 voucher from Dino Fino and a gazebo worth €1080 from The Atrium, respectively. The competition was split in- to three categories: (i) Best fa- cade or patio, (ii) Best terrace or balcony and (iii) Best roof garden or back yard. Judges then handpicked the most cre- ative entries for each category and put them up for a public vote through Frank Salt Real Estate's Facebook page. The photos with the most Likes and Shares were the lucky winners. The initiative proved to be very popular with over 75 eager candidates submitting photos of their lush green terraces and gardens and thousands voting for the best entries. Connie Calleja, Alison Bez- zina and Marica Scicluna DeBono were runner up win- ners in each of the three cat- egories and each walked away with a €50 voucher, courtesy of Greenscapes. "At Frank Salt Real Estate the environment is an integral part of our operations and in an ef- fort to promote awareness and the advantages of a greener en- vironment, we regularly organ- ise activities and competitions, such as this one, which allows us to engage with our audience in a fun and creative way for a good cause." said Darren De Domenico, Director at Frank Salt Real Estate. This competition was one of the real estate firm's CSR ini- tiatives, forming part of Frank Salt Real Estate's Let's Go En- vironmental drive, through which over the past years, has been organising various ac- tivities to raise awareness of our environment. The com- pany makes it a point to keep its social responsibilities at the forefront of its operations, thus organising such initiatives on a regular basis. From left to right: winners Steve Compagno; Trisha Smith; Maureen Corrado Cristina; Connie Calleja; Frank Salt Real Estate Director Darren De Domenico Bank of Valletta stages a revival in profitability THE BOV 2023 Strategy con- tinues to build momentum in the first half of 2021. In the first 6 months, we moved key workstreams forward and start- ed to deliver tangible benefits. Building on the achievements to significantly reduce over- the-counter transactions and cheques processed and enca- shed in branches, we have also increased the customers' usage of our online platform and dig- ital application. As part of the Strategy to improve the customer expe- rience, we have delivered new customer facing solutions for our Investment advisors with significant reduction in time to collect all the requisite infor- mation and assess suitability in line with regulatory require- ments. New Digital factories have been established to deliver improvements and simplifica- tion across Account Opening, Web and Mobile applications and Home Loans allowing our front-line colleagues more time with our customers. Un- derpinning the Strategy is a significant investment in sys- tems, people and controls. To date, we have already em- braced reskilling with training of our employees. In the first half of this year, more than 600 colleagues went through tar- geted training programmes to enhance customer service and meet customer needs more ef- fectively. Finally, the Group continues to build on our solid founda- tions put in place by the Risk Transformation and de-risking programmes. We continue to invest in our Risk, Compliance and Audit functions, resourc- ing them with the necessary manpower and giving them effective tools and training to perform at their best. Dr Gordon Cordina on be- half of the Board of Directors and Rick Hunkin on behalf of the Executive team expressed gratitude to all employees for their continued perseverance during these challenging times as the Bank embarked upon a significant transformation programme and firmly believe that employees, customers and shareholders appreciate the need for change in order to im- prove our quality of service to our customers and longer-term profitability and sustainability of the Bank.