Standard Chartered Bank is launching its latest mobile and online banking platform across eight African markets. The bank will introduce finger print recognition technology in these markets later this year After the rollout of the online banking suit in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabve in the first half of 2016. The bank is also upgrading its online banking platform in these markets to navigation and user-friendly interfaces on the bank’s websites. Clients will be able to use a new self-service option for wealth management that would enable them to set up their investment profiles online and find out products that are most suitable by answering questions on their financial position, investment objectives and risk tolerance. StanChart retail banking CEO Karen Fawcett said Africa is important to Standard Chartered and the launch is demonstration of that. StanChart is bringing the best in mobile banking to Africa – consumers across the continent are increasingly affluent and tech-savvy and they want convenient access to their bank, wherever they happen to be, he said.
