to me this is the best bank website i have seen so far :

http://www.standardchartered.com/

It doesn't give me the impression, on first load, that it is a bank website. Looks more like a business informational website.

^^^After spending like 20 minutes on the site trying to disagree with you, i can only be forced to agree.

Standard Chartered is not a Nigerian bank per se. .as they only have license to operate in Nigeria. .That site you posted up there covers their international audience.

@Topic, IMHO, http://www.gtbank.com/ tops the list followed by http://diamondbank.com/

^^^ Of the 2 that you have here, I prefer diamond's - GT's looked more than an architect's site.

In general:
What's up with these 2 banks having very large slider images? Is it a "Nigerian factor" thing, or a "let's see who can create the most effizy thing"? It looks like the designers of these sites spent more time going after effects than the main reason why someone would visit such a site - to log in to do online banking (if a customer) or to sign up for a banking service (if a potential customer).

Slyr0x: Standard Chartered is not a Nigerian bank per se. .as they only have license to operate in Nigeria. .That site you posted up there covers their international audience.

@Topic, IMHO, http://www.gtbank.com/ tops the list followed by http://diamondbank.com/

Sure Diamond is cool with banking functionality attached to the site.