HSBC Bank Armenia to improve technical customer support in 2009March 7, 2009 - 19:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "This year HSBC Bank Armenia intends to invest $2m in telephone and Internet banking, said Tim Slyther, Executive Director General of HSBC Bank Armenia at the press-conference, Saturday. Considering the clients' interests in using various means of bank service, the management has made a decision to meet their request. The experience proved that with time the number of clients who directly turn to the Bank departments will decrease," he said "The development in technologies will lead to new demands of the clients to use new and more advanced methods of Bank Service, Slyther explained. So the telephone banking has already been implemented, and by the end of 2009 our clients will be able to make use of the internet banking. HSBC Bank Armenia plans to spend $2 m. to finance these two projects. As to the security and privacy of this information, Slyther assured us in the following,"It is easier to forge a signature than a coded number fixed in one's memory." Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |