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| National Savings Bank Chairperson Keasila Jayawardena
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Information technology and financial transactions have become inseparable today and walk hand in hand with the increasing demand for efficiency, convenience and space.
National Savings Bank, the safest bank in the country with the 100% government guarantee, therefore, always makes it a point to ensure an exclusive banking experience for its customers through novel technological aspects of banking such as internet banking and mobiles apps and latest financial solutions and especially, amidst the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, encourages its customers more to use smart technology to be safe and stay safe.
National Savings Bank Chairperson Keasila Jayawardena stated that National Savings Bank is always committed to make the cyber space a secured platform for banking and the Bank has already taken measures to ensure the safety of its customers and their money by increasing the features of its internet banking facility, ‘NSB e Connect’ to meet their diverse banking needs. Accordingly, NSB e Connect facilitates a range of services including checking the account balance, transferring the money in your account to any other bank or financial institution (subject to a maximum of Rs. 2 m), reviewing the history of transactions, reloads to your mobile, payment of utility bills, payment of loan instalments, pawning instalments, etc., credit card bill payments and payments to government institutions such as Sri Lanka Ports Authority, Board of Investments (BOI), Inland Revenue Department with Realtime update feature.
Further, you can check the balances of your child’s Savings Account as well as your Fixed Deposit Accounts by linking the same to your Savings Account. If you have more than one Savings Accounts at NSB, those accounts also can be linked while the facility of obtaining e statements for a given period is also available.
National Savings Bank is the only bank or financial institution that provides such services free of charge. So, it cordially invites you to bank through NSB e-Connect to meet your banking needs safely and save your valuable time without waiting at long queues.
In addition, arrangements are made to issue its Debit Card without any basic fee until the end of June this year for the convenience of its customers.
Keasila Jayawardena further stated that as per the health authorities, the spread of COVID-19 is also possible through currency notes and coins and therefore, National Savings Bank earnestly requests all Sri Lankans to use new technology to meet their banking needs without physically using notes and coins while contributing to stop the spread of COVID-19 by following the healthcare instructions.
