Are you already having an existing business say a shop but still wants to earn extra income from a supporting business? Do you have the flare for marketing, or the skill to talk to people into opening a bank account with one of the fast top Nigerian banks? Are you surrounded by many people who still do not know to could own bank accounts from their little daily earnings?
If your answer to each of these is ‘YES’ , then you have the chances of making extra income on a monthly basis by just becoming a bank agent. Here, Sterling bank is offering you an opportunity to earn as much as N54,000 monthly by joining its team of agents to help pool for the bank more deposit and large consumer base.
The benefits of becoming an Agent are enormous which includes giving you extra income, helping to attract more customers to your business, making you a valued member of Sterling bank family, and you get paid per month and on commission basis.
An agent is someone with an existing business and has a physical business location/address (shop, kiosk or office). This can be a chemist, supermarket, market stall, internet café, barber’s shop, provision store among others.
What an Agent does are: account opening, collects deposits, airtime top-up, withdrawals, fund transfer, mini-statement, bill payments (DSTV, PHCN, LAWMA, check and balances for customers.
An Agent would enroll the customer by capturing his basic details, including 10 finger prints and picture of the customer on the POS terminals. Transactions are carried out using issued personalized cards on a POS terminal and the customer must confirm all transactions using one of her fingerprints.
Fatai Amoo, Group Head, E-Business, Sterling Bank, said the board and management of the bank took a decision to make banking all inclusive, taking it to any single home so that everybody can have opportunity to save.
Speaking at the bank’s Agent banking launch in Lagos, he said the bank has deployed biometrics enabled Point of Sale (PoS) terminals to its entire agent banking outlets in the country which would help include about 30 million adult Nigerian who can’t read or write into the financial system.
He said what is required With the biometric solution is the customer’s fingerprint, adding that customers can deposit, withdraw money, recharge phones, and pay bills among others all through the bank’s agents. “you do not need to queue up, simply go to our agents and do all these transactions seamlessly. Our agents are empowered in a very structured manner to do all these,” he said.
Amoo disclosed that in the next couple of days the bank would embark on consumer awareness through radio jingles, advertisements among others for existing and prospective customers to know their right. “Sterling bank has come to change the landscape of banking adding that it is not just about banking but about economic empowerment, job creation which extends to national development.
Puri Davendra, Sterling Bank’s Executive Director, Lagos, said in any country where there is a strong financial system, the economy prospers.
He said Nigeria has high percentage of people who are unbanked, adding that Sterling bank was first to start financial inclusion in the country.
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