By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus
Cash depositing is nomore limited to 8h00 to 15h30 Monday to Saturday, but economic agents can now perform their depositing transaction at their convenience.
This is possible as banking facilitators invested in cash-accepting ATMs around the country.
According to the update from Bank Windhoek yesterday, the bank has now cash-accepting ATMs in around 10 towns across the country.
Bank Windhoek’s national operations manager, David Nell, revealed this when he announced that Henties and Walvis Bay got extra cash-accepting ATMs.
Nell indicated that the uptake in the use of the cash accepting ATM in the coastal towns is encouraging, and as a result, they invested in two more deposit accepting machines for Walvis Bay.
He explained that by adding more cash accepting ATMs at Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, and Henties Bay, the bank has listened to its customers’ feedback by providing increasing self-service banking channels.
“Our customers can now deposit cash whenever convenient for them in a safe and secure space, 24 hours a day,” he wrote.
Nell also shared that Bank Windhoek is in the process of deploying deposit-accepting ATMs to more towns countrywide.
He, however, caution economic agents that the recently released N$10 and N$30 coins and South African Rands are not currently accepted by the cash taking ATMs.
He added that the functionalities to accept the new N$10 and N$30 notes would soon become available.
To date Bank Windhoek has cash accepting ATMs at Oshakati, Ongwediva Windhoek, Walvis Bay, Outap, Ondangwa, Omaruru, Henties Bay, Swakopmund and Swakopmund.
From The Villager observations, Standard Bank, Nedbank, FNB, and Bank Windhoek have now outside cash accepting ATMs.
The cash-accepting ATMs are crucial in increasing economic efficiency and productivity as economic agents will spend less time in queues and filling papers away from work. Email: erastus@thevillager.com.na
Nghiinomenwa Erastus
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