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Gulf Bank Awarded the Best Mobile Banking Experience in the Middle East From Arabian Business Magazine

Gulf Bank is proud to have won 'Best Mobile Banking Experience in Middle East' at the Arabian Business Kuwait Awards. The ceremony happened on 7 Might 2017 at the Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel.

Ms. Laila Al-Qatami, Assistant General Manager for Corporate Communications at Gulf Bank said: Recognition of Gulf Bank's innovative and simple to make use of mobile banking application continues with an additional Middle East regional acknowledgment, this time at the Arabian Business Magazine's Kuwait Honors. Our 'Blinking to Bank' application is the first mix fingerprint/ facial recognition to be released in the Middle East and among the few offered globally. This innovation underscores the Bank's technique for relocating its consumer base over to digital, while additionally surpassing our customers mobile banking expectations."

Ms. AlQatami proceeded: "When we designed our mobile banking app, we paid great focus on simplicity and efficiency of activity paired with world-class biometric protection attributes. The Bank's customers could access their personal accounts and any type of number of services by logging into the App with either techniques: by blinking their eyes at their smartphone camera 'Flashing to Bank' following their traditional password acknowledgment (Touch ID), or with the use of a traditional password registration. The app makes certain that consumer is never ever greater than 3 clicks far from their desired transaction. This combination of functionality, simplicity, and safety and security make our mobile banking application experience unique in the Middle East region."

This year's Arabian Business Kuwait Awards had 13 award classifications, however just one which was excellence at the Middle East regional level. Champions were chosen with a rigorous evaluating process with shortlists of nominees in each category developed by the ITP Executive editorial team based upon business task over the past Twelve Month. This shortlist was after that assessed prior to the winners' announcement.

The services consisted of in the Mobile Banking Application and Online Banking are: examining account information; making ad-hoc transfers; biometric confirmation for transfers; automatic IBAN data population; creating a standing order; establishing future-dated purchases; and including and managing recipients. Transferring funds is additionally streamlined because the application will certainly populate the continuing to be IBAN Recipient Bank details instantly. Customers can additionally use the Application to safely share info including IBAN number and account owner name sharing, IBAN certification sharing and printing, deal verification sharing, and declaration sharing; and much more.

In addition, Gulf Bank's bank card customers can check their Gulf Benefits point equilibriums, as well as quickly retrieve their Gulf Points for free travel and hotel stays. They could additionally pay their charge card costs; receive cash advances from bank card; apply for new ATM and debit cards; activate brand-new credit cards; in addition to report and block swiped or lost cards (debit and credit). Furthermore, the new Application allows customers to review their Al Danah chances, sight and share their Al Danah certificate, or perhaps open an Al Danah account.

Arabian Business is the Middle Easts leading regular business title - concentrating on the English speaking and Arabic talking business community. Arabian Business supplies weekly extensive analysis of the latest regional and global news and its influence on business in the Gulf. The publication is renowned for its high profile interviews with some of the world's leading businessmen, considerable functions from around the Middle East and valued commentary on the problems of the day. Arabian Business Kuwait Awards was launched in 2010 to commemorate the lively and extremely prominent Kuwait business community by identifying accomplishments in a range of categories.

Nominations are received through the magazines website, and the champions are picked by an independent panel of judges to guarantee honesty of the honors and to recognize just those who really deserve the accolade.

To learn more about Gulf Bank's latest, innovative and easy to utilize Online and Mobile Banking solutions, customers could visit the bank's multilingual internet site at www.e-gulfbank.com, call the Consumer Contact Fixate 1805805, visit its social media accounts, or check out one of Gulf Bank's 56 branches in Kuwait.

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