* 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.
