Keystone bank extends ATM services to the disabled
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In an efforts to make banking service accessible to physically challenged people in the country, formal bank PHB now Keystone bank extended its ATM service banking to disabled clients by launching a wheelchair friendly Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in Maryland, Lagos.
Speaking at the launch of the machine bouts, Keystone Head of Corporate Services, Mariam Olateju-Phillips, said the majority of physically challenged people especially those on wheelchairs were often not able to access ATM banking services because most of the machines were installed without considering them.
She said that with the newly installed ATMs, people on wheelchairs would now be able to withdraw money without any assistance.
Olateju-Phillips said that the bank hoped to install more of such ATMs across strategic locations in the country so as to reach more physically challenged persons.
"This ATM bout is the first of its kind anywhere in the country. It is targeted on key areas to allow more access to the community and the physically challenged persons. We hope to have many of them at various states across the country in the nearest future," she said.
Bank PHB is a Nigerian bank formed as a result of the 2005 merger between former Platinum Bank Plc. and Habib Nigeria Bank Limited prior to the consolidation exercise mandated by the CBN.
In August 2011, due to a CBN audit, Bank PHB failed to scale through due to liquidity problems and was nationalized by the CBN and later transformed to Keystone Bank. Keystone Bank is 100% owned by AMCON, under the Federal government and also a local second tier financial institution.
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