Meezan Bank, launches Meezan SMS Alerts Service for all its customers nationwide…

May 9th, 2008

Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s largest Islamic Bank has launched Meezan SMS Alerts Service for all its customers nationwide. With SMS Alerts service, customers of the Bank will be informed of multiple account transaction(s) on their mobile phones within minutes.

Meezan Bank has a wide range of products and services providing one stop shop for all Riba-free banking needs. The Bank is always looking to provide customer convenience by offering innovative and value-added products and services. The launch of the Meezan SMS Alert service is one such example. The essence of this service is to provide added convenience and security to all Meezan Bank customers and would be helpful in assisting them for monitoring day-to-day account activity.

Meezan Bank customers once signed up, will receive an instant SMS alert from Meezan Bank on their respective mobile phones on any of the following transactions that occur on the customer’s current or savings account(s): –

• Debit Transaction: When an amount is deducted from customers’ current or savings account(s).
• Credit Transaction: When an amount is deposited to customers’ current or savings account(s).
• Low Balance: When the balance in customers’ account(s) falls below a threshold amount (specified by the customers beforehand).
• Cheque Bounce: Whenever the customers’ issued or deposited Cheque gets dishonored due to any reason.

Meezan Bank presently has 102 branches in 31 cities across Pakistan All branches are ‘on-line’ and are supported by state of the art 24/7 Banking services to all its customers, which includes 90 ATMs, Internet Banking and a Call Center that operates 24 hours a day seven days a week. Meezan Bank offers a comprehensive Debit Card that is accepted at over 3,000 outlets across Pakistan.