Mobile operator Robi Axiata Limited and Eastern Bank Limited on Tuesday signed an agreement to introduce mobile-remittance service.
Robi’s managing director and chief executive officer Michael Kuehner and Eastern Bank’s managing director and chief executive officer Ali Reza Iftekhar signed the agreement at a ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel in the city.
Any mobile operator’s customer, who needs not to be customer of any bank, can receive this service from selected Robi Service Partner outlets.
Michael Kuehner expressed hope that it was a new idea in Bangladesh which would grow the GDP.
Ali Reza Iftekhar said the service would give a benefit to non-banker people of Bangladesh and added that banking for the non-bankers would bring very important social and economic impact for the country in future.
Robi’s chief marketing officer Bidyut Kumar Basu said that the service would start within few days and the service charge would also be declared then.
Customers have to submit a photocopy of original identity document like —national identity, passport or driving licence and transaction identity at the service centres to get the service.
Initially the service will be launched in Dhaka, Comilla and Chittagong.
Eastern Bank’s deputy managing director M Fakhrul Alam, head of service delivery Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury and Robi’ chief financial officer Mahtab Uddin Ahmed were also present at the programme.
