Saturday 21 / September / 2024
Muscat: Bank Sohar has launched their new Mobile Banking App for its conventional as well as Islamic Banking — Sohar Islamic clients — at a press conference held on June 2, in order to provide its customers with increased convenience and an enhanced banking experience.
Bank Sohar mobile banking App is available on both; Android and iOS devices and features the very latest in mobile banking technology with advanced security capabilities and an innovative self-registration system in order to use it.
The app also features modern and easy navigation in addition to a streamlined look; allowing customers to do banking in one minute and view account balances, transfer funds, pay utility bills, credit card payments and much more.
The press conference to launch the new mobile apps was held at Crowne Plaza – Muscat. Representing Bank Sohar at the event were Sasi Kumar, Group GM Business, Munira Abdulnabi Macki, GM of HR and Corporate Support, Khalfan Rashid Al Taley, DGM and Head of Central Operations, Mujahid Said Al Zadjali, DGM of IT and Alternate Channels, Salim Khamis Al Maskry, DGM & Head Sohar Islamic, Mazin Mahmood Al Raisi, Sr. AGM of Marketing and Customer Experience and Mustafa Mohammed Dhafaullah, Head of Alternate Channels; alongside other senior members of the Bank.
Commenting on the launch of the Mobile Banking Apps, Mujahid Said Al Zadjali said, “With the market penetration of Mobile devicesgrowing exponentially, we havewitnessed increasing feedback and demand from our customers for a mobile banking application. However, we delved deeper into the feedback we received to create a truly unique application that offer everything one might expect of an app of this kind and much more; and it does so while offering a clean and simplified design, easy navigation, a convenient self-registration system, and the very latest in mobile banking security. As a result,I am confident our Mobile Banking App will no doubt become a mainstay of our digital banking platform.”
On downloading the mobile application from Google Play or Apple App Store, Bank Sohar customers can self-register to start using the app. Via the Mobile Banking App, customers can easily monitor transactions in their accounts with real-time account balance and mini statements. In addition, users will also be able to transfer funds between accounts within the Bank as well as within the country. The App also allows users to pay their utility bill payments and credit card payments. For added convenience, the App also allows users to place requests for the Bank’s other services such as requestingof cheque books and demand drafts. Furthermore, using the very latest in technology and security features, the app ensures users the highest levels of data privacy and security at all times.
“Our one minute mobile banking App is simple, secure and efficient, and offers our customers on-the-go banking access anywhere and anytime; effortlessly integrating their everyday banking with other daily tasks. Although it already offers a comprehensive list of services, we will continue to develop the app and our e-channels and look forward to bringing additional solutions to our customers in the future," added Mustafa Mohammed Dhafaullah.
The launch of mobile app perfectly complements the Bank’s comprehensive Al Mumayaz Internet Banking service, which offers customers real time access to their accounts through the Internet. Apart from providing real time account balances inquiry, the Bank Sohar online portal offers users a bouquet of services including Intra-Bank and local banks transfers, account statement downloads in multiple formats, instant transfers to a leading bank in India, Online Bill Payment, requesting ofCheque Book and muchmore. Furthermore, like the app, it is a simple yet secure way to bank, offering high level security system to ensure data privacy and security of all transactions. Outside of its online banking services, the Bank also offers its customers its internationally benchmarked Al Mumayaz SMS Banking Service. Following a simple registration process, the SMS service provides the Bank’s customers with automated alerts of any transactions on the user’s account directly on their mobile phones.
In addition to this newly launched Bank Sohar Mobile Banking App and other market leading retail products and services, Bank Sohar provides an extensive network of 27 conventional branches with 50ATMs across the Sultanate. In addition, Bank Sohar customers can also avail of convenient cash withdrawal services at over 1,000 ATMs across the country operating under the ‘OmanNet’ platform. The Bank’s ATMs at Buraimi and Shinas border continue to operate with the ‘Dirhams Dispensing’ facility; thus adding immense convenience to businessmen who travel and transact business across the border on a regular basis, as well as to customers who visit the United Arab Emirates. The Bank’s customers enjoy the advantage of a Cash Deposit facility at all branch ATMs as another value-added service.
For more information on Bank Sohar, please visit the Bank’s official website www.banksohar.net or call 24730000. You can also follow the Bank on Facebook at www.facebook.com/excel.banksohar, on Instagram at www.instagram.com/banksoharexcel or join the conversation on Twitter @banksohar_excel.
