Etisalat Nigeria has launched a mobile money payment solution in conjunction with a number of banks in the country. The banks include:
- First Bank
- GTBank
- Stanbic IBTC Bank
- Zenith Bank and
- Other Banks joining soon.
General Manager, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Mr. Bolaji Lawal; Chief Commercial Officer, Etisalat Nigeria, Mr. Wael Ammar; Representative of First Bank, Mrs. Folashade Femi – Lawal and Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria, Mr. Steven Evans at the Launch of Etisalat EasyWallet.
The service is SIM-based and is accessible via the SIM menu on your mobile phone. It works on all Etisalat SIM cards and customers are only required to register with any of the Schemes in order to start using easywallet. Customers are not charged from their airtime for any transactions from the mobile money SIM menu.
Etisalat customers using the easywallet service will be able to:
- Pay bills
- Pay for goods and services
- Receive and send money to friends and family
- Send and receive money to their bank accounts
- Withdraw cash
- Top up their own airtime account or top up someone else’s and
- Manage their bank accounts with the Etisalat EasyWallet on their Phone.
Etisalat say that EasyWallet is the first fully secure Mobile Money SIM Application offered to customers with the easywallet application installed on their SIM cards. This unique application supports Multiple Languages – English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba and works across all makes and models of phones, smartphones and even tablet devices. Easywallet is compliant with all industry standards such as ISO-1 and guarantees adequate protection of customer information while carrying out mobile financial transactions across multiple Mobile Money schemes.
With Easywallet, Etisalat aims to bring mobile money closer to the customer and drive the CBN’s cashless policy by growing the use of mobile payments and making it easy to use. Enjoy! Don’t forget to hit any of the Share/Like buttons.
