Caribbean tech blog focusing on Regional and International technology topics
“The use of NCB Quisk will remove the overhead that the Government would have had to pay to prepare and disburse cheques. Potentially this could be savings of millions of dollars per year. It will also reduce the time required to get payments to beneficiaries and save them from having to visit an office to […]
National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) launched their mobile money offering in partnership with Silicon Valley-based start-up Quisk recently. Mobile money is big business in many developing economies especially in Africa and Asia. What is Mobile Money? Mobile Money enables anyone with a cellphone number to use their money without needing cash or cards. Its an electronic system that […]
National Commercial Bank (NCB) is one of Jamaica’s biggest banks and offers a wide range of banking and financial services through a network of 37 branches and over 170 ABMs island-wide, as well as telephone and internet Banking. In an interesting move NCB has put out a Digital Innovation Challenge as they seek to “consistently […]
NCB seems to want it all, I’m afraid. They now have in minds plans to roll out money and cheque reading machines in a bid to improve their ATM (Automated Teller Machines) Service later in the Fourth Quarter of 2013 to reduce the cost of running their Banks. This is a move I welcome, along […]
Most of us should know the saying “time is money” and or “time wasted is never regained” (or something to that extent) so most of us should have experienced the pain and loss of precious time that often goes with standing in at times horrendously long lines waiting to pay bills, other expenses or other business/financial […]