HSBC has recently announced the winner of its Internet Banking Summer promotion. Mr. Jacobus S Marais, who lives in Sharjah, won an HP Compaq nc8000 Pentium laptop computer.
The promotion, held between 15 July and 31 August, offered customers who used HSBC’s Internet Banking service for overseas/local Telegraphic Transfers, bill payments, credit card payments, cashier’s orders, opening new accounts or time deposit accounts and requesting e-statements a chance to enter the draw. New customers registering to the service were also eligible.
“The promotion was a great success and we are very pleased with the response. We have not only seen an increase in customers’ transactions but also in new registrations, “ said Lester Wynne-Jones, Regional Head of Personal Financial Services, HSBC Bank Middle East Limited. “HSBC’s Internet Banking service is one of a wide range of delivery channels available to our customers. It offers them the convenience, security and reliability of managing their accounts online in an easy and accessible way at preferential rates.”
1. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited
HSBC is the largest and most widely represented international bank in the Middle East. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has 29 branches throughout the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Autonomous Area, including an offshore banking unit in Bahrain. This extensive regional coverage is strengthened by another member of the HSBC Group HSBC Bank Egypt SAE, and by its associated companies, The Saudi British Bank and British Arab Commercial Bank Limited. In addition to its Middle Eastern network, the Bank has a representative office in Tehran, Iran.
2. HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has been a principal member of the HSBC Group since 1959. Serving over 110 million customers worldwide, the HSBC Group has approximately 9,700 offices in 77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$1,467 billion at 30 June 2005, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisat
