MD (Retail & Digital Banking) of State Bank of India (SBI) PK Gupta here on Friday launched few strategic and developmental initiatives in the presence of Rajesh Kumar, CGM Bhopal Local Head Office (LHO).
During his visit to the city of lakes, Gupta flagged off YONO branded Uber taxis to spread awareness about bank’s iconic omni-channel banking and lifestyle platform among the residents of Bhopal.
As part of bank’s sustainable and green initiatives, he along with the CMC members of the LHO also planted numerous trees, pledging for the cleaner and greener city.
Gupta also addressed the entire staff members of the Bhopal LHO and brief them about several initiatives planned and implemented for a better customer banking experience.
During his addressal, he touched upon digital banking, agri-loans, and achievements of the bank in financial inclusion programme.
Later, while talking to media persons, he said that SBI continues to command leadership in digital banking space by offering bouquet of seamless and secured services like, SBI YONO - omni-channel banking and lifestyle platform, State Bank Anywhere – mobile banking platform, State Bank Buddy – a wallet, sbiINTOUCH – digital branch to name a few. SBI YONO has 93 lakh downloads with more than 2.5 lakh logins per day.
On this platform, more than 1 million SB accounts were opened reaching a peak of more than 27 thousand accounts per day. As on June 30, 2018, SBI has over 5.08 crore internet banking users and 1.17 crore mobile banking users.
SBI Bhopal LHO which covers both Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh has branch network of 1531 with 4,834 ATMs. Overall LHO services 4.1 crore saving bank accounts of which 1.67 crore accounts holding deposits of Rs 2,011 crore are under PMJDY as part of financial inclusion programme by the Government of India. Under Mudra loans bank has 15,469 accounts with loan amount of Rs 608 crore and total number of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) stands at 6,00,487.