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ECOBANK to issue credit card in Ghana
Accra, July 10, GNA – ECOBANK is set to issue a credit card
in the country on Tuesday to further ease financial
transactions across the country, following the heels of a
redenomination exercise which seeks to address the problem
of carrying huge sums of physical cash.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency Business Desk in Accra about
the new card, Mr Rami Baitie, Corporate Affairs Manager of
ECOBANK, explained that the credit card was open and
available to non-ECOBANK customers and could be used at
points of sale throughout the country and in any part of the
world.
“We are very pleased to be the first to come out with this
facility and it is purely out of our desire to not only be
there for our customers, but to deepen financial processes
and procedures in Ghana, by ensuring that in this age and
time, Ghanaians can join the large number of customers
already benefiting from such a service in their home
countries.”
ECOBANK, a pan-African bank with branches in 13 West African
states, is one of the major models for regional integration
and cooperation.
Mr Baitie said it would ease the amount of money people
could carry on them, stressing “all they need to do is to
call at our branches, provide details about themselves and
we would follow up at their banks for their bank history.
When this is completed, they would be issued with a card
with all the details enclosed.”
The ECOBANK Group has become an established regional banking
institution. The Group employs more than 6,000 professionals
from West and Central Africa, and from other African and
non-African countries with a network of more than 320
branches and offices in 18 countries of West and Central
Africa.
ECOBANK already offers internationally recognized cards such
as the Visa Electron and the Master card as well as a
Regional Card. On offer are credit and debit cards that
provide global financial empowerment with access to all Visa
and MasterCard branded electronic point of sale (POS)
terminals and ATMs worldwide.
With an ECOBANK card one can have 24-hour access to banking
services and pay for services at merchant points displaying
the Visa, MasterCard or Ecobank signs.
ECOBANK already has the ECOBANK Regional Cards in Benin,
Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Guinea, Senegal and
Togo; ECOBANK Visa Electron Card in Ghana and the ECOBANK
Master Card which operates in Nigeria.
GNA
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