UBA Ghana Eases Transactions for High Income Earners, Unveils  MasterCard Platinum Card  

Deputy Managing Director of UBA Ghana, Soni Anwal speaking at the launch

Accra, Ghana, December 3, 2018//-United Bank for Africa (UBA) Ghana Limited has added another bespoke product-MasterCard Platinum Card which aims at making shopping, travels and others very convenient for business executives and other high income earners in the country.

 Additional benefits

 According to senior officials of the bank, holders of the Mastercard platinum card would have the luxury of booking flights, reserving hotels and paying for bills all at discounted rates.

This followed UBA’s strategic partnership with major retail agents across Europe, Asia, America and other continent.

The UBA MasterCard Platinum card also offers services which not only allow customers transact easily with their cards locally and internationally, they also come with carefully considered benefits designed to exceed the customer’s expectation with a mixture of financial and lifestyle oriented components.

Launching the card in Accra, the Deputy Managing Director of UBA Ghana, Soni Anwal said apart from creating convenience for the customers, the introduction of Mastercard platinum card onto the Ghanaian market is the bank’s way of supporting the government in its attempt to make the country’ economy cashless.

He assured the customers who are going to use the UBA Mastercard Platinum card and other cards issued by the bank that they are well-protected from dubious online activities.

Security and functions

The Head of Digital Banking at UBA Ghana, Kistina Dadzie who highlighted the security features of the Mastercard platinum card, added that the card is 3D enabled with EMV chip and Personal Identification Number (PIN).

She continued that there is a quarterly service upgrade to avoid fraudulent use of the card, stressing: “This will ensure that customers’ transactions are secured”.

The functions of the newly launched card are:  balance enquiry, purchase at post of sale (POS) devices, purchase on web, and ATM Cash withdrawals.

According to her, as a result of the upcoming Christmas festive season, 500 lucky high networked individuals and customers of the bank would have access to the MasterCard platinum card for free.

The UBA Platinum MasterCard is an internationally accepted debit card from MasterCard International and denominated in cedi.

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