Ecobank Enables Money Transfer Through SMS, Whatsapp
Ecobank Nigeria has announced that its customers are now able to transfer funds through email, SMS and WhatsApp with the new features available on the bank’s mobile app.
It announced this in a released statement on Wednesday titled ‘Ecobank Nigeria introduces money transfer Via SMS, WhatsApp’.
The Head of Consumer Banking, Ecobank Nigeria, Olukorede Demola-Adenyi, stated that this was part of the bank’s innovation in digital banking, which gives customers the ability to perform their transactions effortlessly.
According to her, “This opportunity came at a right time when many people are self-isolating and observing social distancing due to the COVID-19”.
With this feature, a customer can transfer up to N50,000 without the beneficiary’s account number.
The transfer, according to Demola-Adenyi, could be done without the beneficiary providing an account number or deciding on which account to receive the funds into.
