72,000 more villages to get banking services by 2012
written by anjitha
at Sunday, February 6, 2011
"Keeping with the RBI directives, the banks have been engaging retired bank officials, locals and societies as business correspondents (BC) and setting up branches to extend the banking services to unbanked rural and remote areas having population of 2,000," United Bank of India (UBI) chairman-cum-managing director Bhaskar Sen told reporters.According to Sen, introduction of core banking solutions (CBS), internet banking, mobile banking, online payment, transaction and business are some of the latest technologies being used in the Indian banking sectors.
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