HNB Assurance ties up with HDFC Bank to facilitate premium payments from home

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HNB Assurance PLC, one of the fastest growing insurance companies in Sri Lanka entered into an agreement with Housing Development Finance Corporation Bank (HDFC), the premier housing bank, to enhance customer convenience by facilitating premium payments at the customer’s own doorstep. The agreement was signed by the two organisations recently. HDFC Bank Chief Executive Officer/General Manager Nimal Mamaduwa and HNB Assurance Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Manjula De Silva signed on behalf of their companies. HDFC Bank Chairperson Siromi Wickramasinghe was also present at this occasion. This facility is the latest addition to HNB Assurance premium payment methods, which provides its policyholders the chance to pay online via the bank’s website www.hdfc.lk or walk into any of HDFC bank’s 33 branch offices island wide. In addition HNB Assurance will make use of the bank’s doorstep banking facility where its mobile banking team comprising over 250 officers make regular visits to the customers’ doorsteps or nearby central locations making it more convenient for the customers. HDFC Bank has been in existence for the past 30 years, with the vision of being a customer driven and best managed enterprise that enjoys market leadership in providing housing related finance. The bank has embraced modern technology to keep abreast with development and to best serve its constantly increasing volume of customers. Palm-Top banking technology has enabled the bank to expand its service base to grass root level with the use of hand-held devices. These palm-top solutions enable the bank to deliver an effective door-to-door solution to customers, getting closer to customers and enabling the delivery of efficiencies that are unparalleled. Through this measure HDFC is integrating the country’s informal financial segment into the formal banking sector to wider reach and personalised solutions. The bank has successfully introduced prudent financial practice and disciplines into this sector, and together they are making progress in self-employment and micro finance segments. HNB Assurance PLC is one of the fastest growing insurance companies in Sri Lanka with a network of 51 branches and over 150 Bancassurance units island wide. HNB Assurance is a composite insurance company with a rating of A (lka) by Fitch Rating Lanka for ‘National Insurer Financial Strength Rating’ and ‘National Long- term Rating’.