{"id":427791,"date":"2011-05-20T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/20\/bpr-spends-rwf30-million-on-mobile-banking-promotion\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:19:45","slug":"bpr-spends-rwf30-million-on-mobile-banking-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/bpr-spends-rwf30-million-on-mobile-banking-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"BPR Spends Rwf30 Million On Mobile Banking Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"40.7449368946\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newtimes180.jpg\" alt=\"The New Times (Kigali)\" title=\"Visit The New Times (Kigali)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saul Butera<\/p>\n<p>20 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Banque Populaire du Rwanda (BPR), the country&#8217;s leading bank by branch network spent Rwf30m in a promotion dubbed &#8216;Use &#8216;n&#8217; win&#8217;. to award clients using its mobile banking service.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky winners will win new scooters, airtime, Star times decoders and subscription and electricity vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>BPR&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, Herman Klaassen, said the promotion is aimed at increasing the usage of mobile banking product that was launched last year.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion which started early this month will run until August this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To stand a chance of winning, a client is required to make at least four minimum transactions a week. So we had 22,000 eligible winners for the first draw out of the 70,000 registered users we have on our service,&#8221; Klaassen explained.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly and twice a month prizes will be given out.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that to win, customers are required to carry out transactions on the mobile banking service including checking account balance or mini statement, money transfers -purchase MTN airtime, purchase electricity, pay Star Times or DSTV subscription or pay MTN post paid bills.<\/p>\n<p>BPR Mobile Banking helps customers to conduct banking transactions via their mobile phone handsets. The bank has so far registered 700,000 subscribers with 200,000 recorded transactions per month.<\/p>\n<p>Tharcisse Twagirumukiza, who was the first lucky winner, told Business Times that he had pldedged to make more than four transactions per week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would advise the unbanked to use this mobile banking service as it is less time consuming, very convenient and quick,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105200153.html\" title=\"BPR Spends Rwf30 Million On Mobile Banking Promotion\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BPR Spends Rwf30 Million On Mobile Banking Promotion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Saul Butera 20 May 2011 Banque Populaire du Rwanda (BPR), the country&#8217;s leading bank by branch network spent Rwf30m in a promotion dubbed &#8216;Use &#8216;n&#8217; win&#8217;. to award clients using its mobile banking service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-427791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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