Commercial Bank rewards online banking customers with mobiles and tabs

Banking with Commercial Bank via the bank’s sophisticated Combank Online Banking service has generated a windfall for several lucky customers who have won Samsung mobile phones and tabs under a promotion currently under way.

The bank recently presented a Samsung Galaxy Note II, Samsung Galaxy S III and a Samsung Galaxy Tab II to the first batch of winners, along with 10 consolation prizes of Galaxy Music Duos mobile phones.

All these winners had to do was register for Combank Online Banking or complete a transaction using the bank’s online banking, to be eligible for the monthly draws. The promotion runs till Wednesday, 10 April 2013. In all, Commercial Bank will present 39 mobile phones and tabs to online banking customers under this promotion.

The bank recently re-launched its online banking platform, based on the Microsoft.net framework. Offering exceptionally user-friendly menus and benchmark security and encryption features, the new online banking platform puts customers in control, and requires less intervention by the bank.

Commercial Bank’s online banking platform supports bill payments to more than 36 entities in nine categories – telephone, electricity, water, credit cards, insurance, Pay TV, schools, rates and other.  Investing in Treasury bills and effecting payments for share trading transactions is also possible, with self-registration of the users CDS number.

The largest private bank in Sri Lanka, Commercial Bank is the only Sri Lankan bank to be listed two years consecutively in the world’s top 1,000 banks. The bank operates a network of 227 service points in Sri Lanka and a network of 558 ATMs, the single largest ATM network operated by a bank in the island.

The bank has been adjudged ‘Best Bank in Sri Lanka’ for 14 consecutive years by ‘Global Finance’ magazine, and has won multiple awards as the country’s best bank from ‘The Banker,’ ‘FinanceAsia,’ ‘Euromoney’ and ‘Trade Finance’ magazines.