NEWS
Clickatell
New finance option
Transact enables
offers good returns
UBA to launch
WhatsApp
service in Nigeria
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lickatell, an authorised WhatsApp
Business Solution provider, has
announced that United Bank for Africa
(UBA) will be going live with its Chat Banking
solution – Leo on WhatsApp.
Monique West, Head of Technology
Asses Finance at Merchant West, said
that by partnering with Xperien, its
customers can now benefit from the
use of brand new IT equipment at a
subsidised rate below prime.
In a first for Nigeria, customers can now
conduct their favourite banking activities
in a secure and convenient manner, by
communicating with their bank in a verified
WhatsApp chat. This capability is made
possible through Clickatell Transact’s .Control
platform integrated with the WhatsApp
Business API.
It allows banks to roll out commonly used
banking activities, like checking balances,
money transfer and purchasing digital
products and services across popular
communication channels like USSD and now
WhatsApp. The platform offers flexibility,
reliability, fraud and risk management for
banks and a convenient on demand banking
capability for consumers wherever they are.
The ground-breaking banking platform
launches in Nigeria with UBA and consumers
will be able to conduct their banking
activities on WhatsApp and USSD.
“Our customers are at the heart of our
business and we as a bank are never
relenting in matching our words with
equal action,” said Kennedy Uzoka, Group
Managing Director.
“In today’s fast paced world with demands
for quick responses, our aim is to make
banking seamless and effortless for our
millions of existing and potential customers.”
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“In addition to the new equipment
finance option, they can now make use
of Merchant West’s fresh funding lines to
finance Xperien’s continuous IT lifecycle
solutions,” she added.
Xperien CEO Wale Arewa
X
perien has partnered with
independent financial services
company Merchant West to provide
continuous IT lifecycle solutions, a fresh
line of alternative funding to reduce
the cost of IT assets. The partnership
offers a full end-to-end IT Asset Lifecycle
solution from acquisition to financing,
management and disposal.
Merchant West will structure a finance
deal that reduces total usage cost of any
IT asset and now offers finance options
that have no impact on existing funding
from other financial institutions.
“Given the rapid rate at which technology
changes and depreciates in real terms,
partnering with Xperien allows Merchant
West to offer a holistic Asset Lifecycle
Product to its clients, from inception right
through to the end of the asset’s useful
life where clients can further benefit from
the end of lifecycle value added services,
such as data destruction, reverse IT
logistics and disposal.”
Xperien CEO Wale Arewa is excited about
the prospects of the partnership.
“We now offer clients flexibility and
peace of mind at the end of an asset
lifecycle term through our continuous IT
lifecycle solutions,” he said. “They now
have an option to return their assets
and finance the new equipment via
Merchant West.”
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