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Business News of Tuesday, 7 May 2019

Source: Stephen Nana Asare

Standard Chartered Bank to give out free mobile phones to 'SC Mobile App users'

Mrs Asiedua Addae, Head of Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank Mrs Asiedua Addae, Head of Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank

Diving into the digital world of banking, Standard Chartered Bank a Few weeks ago launched the "SC Mobile App" at the Accra Polo Court with Sarkodie, Joycelyn Dumas etc as its brand ambassadors.

With the quest of reaching and boosting the advocacy for the new app the Head of Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank Mrs Asiedua Addae joined Giovani Caleb, on the 3Drive to throw insight on the new app, its functions and the reason for developing the app.

In what seemed to be an interesting conversation between the host and the guest, Mrs Asiedua Addae revealed the app was made out of the 70 requests made by the bank's customers daily.

"The SC Mobile App allows users to open new accounts in a maximum time of 15 minutes, request for checkbooks, credit card, access and transfer money, pay bills and engage in mobile money transactions in split minutes," She said.

Answering a question on the service and its reliability Mrs Asiedua Addae said "Making banking easier and interesting, the bank has established an able technical team to work on the app on a day to day basis, in ensuring a faster and reliable service to app users.

Adding, she disclosed the bank as entered into a promotional activation, which will give out free mobile phones to customers who will download the SC MOBILE APP and keep it activity by opening an account.

To top it up Standard Chartered Bank will give the downloaded user a 2.5mb data for downloading the app.

The SC MOBILE APP is available on Apple Store and Google play store.