Africa-Press – Angola. Two hundred new machines that allow payment, deposit of money and opening of a bank account will be installed throughout this year, in the 18 provinces of Angola, with a view to gradually making banking services available and bringing closer to citizens.
The company’s ‘Innovation Makers’ initiative, in partnership with EMIS and commercial banks, falls within Notice No. 18/2022 of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), which obliges banking institutions to provide financial products and services , in all municipalities, through a service point, for example.
According to the CEO and spokesperson of Innovation Makers, Vítor Rodrigues, the company currently has the installation of close to 200 payment, deposit and account opening machines in the country, with this number expected to double over the course of the present. year.
The person responsible clarified that the respective equipment will be installed in containerized mobile agencies, which can assume the role of ‘ATM Center’, with solutions developed for customers.
He assured that containerized agencies are already available and there are even some in operation.
According to Vítor Rodrigues, this equipment results from the transformation of cargo containers into autonomous and mobile banking points, customizable according to the bank’s needs and its external image.
These containers, he continued, may consist of an ATM Center and adopt the model of a bank agent or service point, being equipped with an ATM, deposit and payment machines, recyclers and bank card printers, as well as a room for meetings, among others. solutions.
The source pointed to the ease of installing and transporting containers, as well as the high level of security, as factors that allow the expansion of the banking network in remote areas of the country, with a substantially lower investment than in traditional spaces.
This solution, he considered, also has the advantage of transforming containers locally, favoring Angolan raw materials, with the exception of banking hardware, which is ordered from external suppliers.
On the other hand, alongside the installation of new payment, deposit and account opening machines (ATM Center), the CEO of Innovation Makers said that the EMIS solution for mobile payments, through the ‘QR Code’ in TPA, is in testing phase, a service that will also be integrated into your company’s solutions, in the first quarter of this year, becoming available in all TPAs in the country.
“This innovative solution on the market makes payments faster, by allowing holders of the Multicaixa Express application to make payments via QR Code, via their cell phone, interacting with the merchant’s TPA”, he clarified.
He considered the availability of these services and products (mobile payments, quick and easy installation ATM Center, among others) as the main solutions in the financial sector that can help prevent and reduce flooding in banking institutions.
Therefore, Vítor Rodrigues guaranteed that his company, in partnership with commercial banks, will continue to provide solutions adapted to the Angolan market, to help solve, gradually, the problem of constant queues or flooding at ATMs, especially at the end of each month.
Still for 2024, in addition to mobile branches and payment via QR Code, the company is preparing the launch of innovative solutions for automating various banking processes and procedures, using biometric authentication and identification and artificial intelligence.
Present in Angola since 2010, Innovation Makers is a specialized technology company, which works primarily with financial and insurance institutions, with emphasis on sales, support and maintenance of ATMs and TPAs, in addition to offering solutions for the bank cards and instant issuing printers, with a workforce of more than 50 people.
Throughout this period, the EMIS-certified company developed several technological actions, with emphasis on the development of the most awarded banking channel solution in the country, in partnership with Banco Angolano de Investimento (BAI), and the launch of the first deposit machines in Angola.
Its activities also include the first QR Code operations in the country, the development of systems that allow pre-payment of electricity in multi-box channels, among other actions.
For this company, Angola currently represents a significant value in the business, which has recorded consistent growth over the years, with the provision of payment solutions (software, internet, mobile banking, TPA and ATM management and monitoring, among others). products), to almost all banks present in the national market.
With a market share of over 30%, in technological solutions for electronic payments, in Angola, Innovation Makers had a turnover of around 12 million euros, globally, in 2022, an increase of around five million euros compared to 2021.
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