NIB introduces Excel Banking for clients

The National Investment Bank (NIB) has introduced a product, Excel Banking, to facilitate convenient banking for clients.

Excel Banking will allow customers to transact business from the comfort of their homes and offices.

Launching the product in Accra yesterday, the Managing Director of NIB, Mr Ernest Mawuli Agbesi, said the product had become necessary due to time constraints and busy schedules of clients.

He said the Bank’s utmost priority was its customers and, therefore, put them at the core of their activities.

Mr Agbesi mentioned that the service didn’t have a particular target group and that the bank would serve all customers who requested it.

“We are only targeting those who want this type of convenience in banking”, Mr Agbesi stated.  

He said the bank was in talks with some airlines, shopping centres and other corporate bodies to guarantee some form of discount in transactions for their Excel Banking customers.

Security arrangements

Mr Agbesi said security was not an issue because the bank had been picking and delivering money to their customers over the past years so it was nothing new and added, however, that the Excel Banking service had been insured in case of any eventualities.

The Chairman for the occasion and member of the Board of Directors of NIB, Mr Emmanuel Adu Sarkodie, said as a development bank the initiative was a milestone in the history of NIB.

“The Board clearly understands the vision and mission of this initiative and is ever ready to play its role to ensure it becomes a success”, he said.

Mr Sarkodie also said that it had become competitive for banks to keep improving and reviewing their services to meet the increasing need of their customers.

He stated that it was imperative to provide healthy competition that puts the company on its toes and enables it to live up to the task in serving its customers. 

Donation

The Bank also donated a Nissan Navara pick-up truck to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) Provident fund, which is managed by the NIB, at the GAF headquarters at Burma Camp, Accra.

Mr Agbesi said the purpose of the donation was to help the GAF reach out to officers in other camps and explain the benefits of the fund to them. He explained that not many of the officers had signed onto the fund and that the vehicle would be a motivating factor to contact and educate them on the importance of the fund.  

The Chief of the Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Mathew Quashie, expressed his appreciation on behalf of the Ghana Armed Forces for the generosity of the NIB.

He said even though the GAF had tried to build a military-civil relationship with corporate bodies, it was rare for companies to make donations to the army.

He added that the vehicle would not only be beneficial to the Ghana Armed Forces but the nation at large, adding that they would do their best to put the vehicle to effective use and ensure the purpose for which it was given was achieved.

He said he hoped this would not be the end of such generosity saying, “I hope this is the beginning of greater and better things to come.”