* Service accessible to all current and savings account holders
Bharti Airtel Lanka, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom services providers announced that it had entered into a strategic tie up with Standard Chartered Bank to provide SMS banking facilities to all bank customers. With this, all Standard Chartered Bank customers can access their Savings and Current accounts over an SMS on their Airtel mobile from April 01.
Standard Chartered Bank customers can now access transaction data, request for statements or cheque books and execute fund transfers within their own account through their Airtel mobile. They may even nominate third party accounts within the bank. Airtel also offers accessibility to foreign currency rates, utility bill payment facilities and a host of credit card related information like alerts on periodic reminders, changes to contact details and even overseas transactions.
Amali Nanayakkara, CEO Bharti Airtel Lanka stated, “Having ushered in unparalleled affordability in Sri Lanka, Airtel remains committed to cater to the evolving needs of our customers. Today, as customer lifestyles experience rapid upward mobility, we see the gradual transformation of the mobile from a mere tool of communication, to a vehicle that enables lifestyle enhancement. As an integrated solutions provider, Airtel’s focus on empowering customers to experience breakthrough services over their mobile will continue to remain at the core of what we do.”
Said Anirvan Ghosh, Head of Consumer Banking, Standard Chartered Bank, “With the era of advancements in personal applications based banking increasing momentum in Sri Lanka, Standard Chartered Bank’s ability to exploit the fruits of this paradigm shift with Airtel, is a significant step taken in the right direction. Our remote banking solution over SMS offers vast choices for personal banking needs, and we are delighted to be able to connect state-of-the-art technology with superior banking services.”
About Bharti Airtel Limited: Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is among Asia’s leading integrated telecom services providers with operations in India,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The company has an aggregate of around 137 million customers across its operations. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.
Bharti Airtel is structured as four strategic business units - Mobile, Telemedia, Enterprise and Digital TV. The mobile business offers services in India,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 94 Indian cities. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. The Digital TV business provides DTH services across India. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s national high-speed optic fiber network currently spans over 118,337 Rkms across India. Airtel’s international network infrastructure includes ownership of the i2i submarine cable system and consortium ownership in five global undersea cable systems, SEA-ME-WE 4, EIG, I-ME-WE, AAG and UNITY. For more information, visit www.airtel.in.
