Having been nominated for two of the Cashless Expo Award categories Managing Director/Chief Executive, Heritage Bank Limited, Ifie Sekibo will speak on ‘Innovation in Financial Services Delivery’ at the annual Cashless Card Expo of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
This year’s edition of the Expo is scheduled to hold from 23rd to 25th June 2015 at Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos. Among other things, the expo features various awards for outstanding payment cards and services, in a bid to recognise and reward banks and financial services efforts at promoting the cashless policy.
In addition to the presentation by Sekibo, Heritage Bank has been nominated for two of the Cashless Expo Award categories namely, “Best Co-branded Card of the year” and “Best Industry innovation of the year”.
Since it commenced operations in 2013, Heritage Bank has distinguished itself through innovative banking services which offer unique customer satisfaction and unparalleled comfort and convenience to existing and new customers of the bank. This is reflected in the zero COT, with no hidden charges, offered to its numerous customers two months after it commenced operations.
The nomination of the Bank for “Best Co-branded Card of the year” and “Best Industry innovation of the year” awards at this year’s CBN’s Cashless Expo is in recognition of the various industry setting innovative epayment cards and channels introduced by the bank since it commenced operations in 2013.
These include: ePiggy Card, for collecting change at merchants; 7411 Smart Travel Tourist Card, which enables visiting tourists in Nigeria to carry out card transactions easily; Mainasara Women and Youth Card, a scheme card to support women and youth development; Vineland Microfinance Bank Card, for customers of Vineland MFB to carry out transactions. Others are: Royal Life Microfinance Bank Card, For customers of Royal Life MFB to carry out transactions, Miliki Living Patrons Card: for patrons of Miliki lounge to pay their bills within the Miliki premises only; and PMAN Card, For PMAN members to receive royalties and carry out transactions.
Last year, Heritage Bank introduced the first transparent MasterCard in Nigeria. The beautiful MasterCard is designed to be physically transparent and to exhibit transparency in its service delivery. The Bank also introduced Nigeria’s pioneer portable POS solution christened “PortaPOS” to ride on the mPOS revolution, which is fast gaining acceptance worldwide. The PortaPOS, which is aimed at providing a seamless payment channel for merchants, was designed to address payment challenges within the retail payments space and also in support of the Cash-less Nigeria project of the CBN.
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