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Sunday, July 27, 2025

BATT: Flatten the curve, use online banking and practice social distancing

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A security officer directs customers in the line outside Scotiabank at the corner of Frederick Street and Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, on Wednesday.

A security officer directs customers in the line outside Scotiabank at the corner of Frederick Street and Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, on Wednesday.

ANISTO ALVES

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (BATT) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic to ad­here to the pub­lic health guide­lines re­gard­ing so­cial dis­tanc­ing and slow­ing the spread of COVID-19 by han­dling your fi­nances re­mote­ly­—ex­plore all your bank’s se­cure dig­i­tal so­lu­tions, all from your web brows­er.

Cus­tomers who may not have on­line or mo­bile bank­ing ser­vices, can use the op­por­tu­ni­ty to sign up for these ser­vices by call­ing their bank’s con­tact cen­tre, BATT said in a state­ment.

It added that this will help with re­spect to ad­her­ing to the na­tion­al call for so­cial dis­tanc­ing prac­tices.

BATT is al­so ad­vis­ing peo­ple to main­tain their so­cial dis­tance with the fol­low­ing tips us­ing their bank’s se­cure dig­i­tal so­lu­tions:

• Re­duce your in-branch trans­ac­tions—use your bank’s con­ve­nient­ly lo­cat­ed ATM ma­chines across the na­tion for cash de­posits and with­drawals. You can vis­it your bank’s web­site to find a near­by ma­chine.

• Min­imise your out­door er­rands by us­ing on­line bank­ing.

BATT not­ed that on­line bank­ing al­lows cus­tomers to man­age ac­counts through desk­top or mo­bile de­vices, not­ing that tasks can be typ­i­cal­ly per­formed by trans­fer­ring funds to peo­ple/com­pa­nies both lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, pay­ing bills, cred­it cards and check­ing your ac­count bal­ances any time of the day.

Cus­tomers are en­cour­aged to use their deb­it and cred­it cards when mak­ing trans­ac­tions, there­by min­imis­ing the han­dling of cash.

“If you have to vis­it the bank to con­duct a trans­ac­tion that can­not be done on­line and is deemed ur­gent, BATT is ap­peal­ing that cus­tomers fol­low the so­cial dis­tanc­ing in­struc­tions giv­en by your banks, which is guid­ed by the na­tion­al guide­lines, while wait­ing to en­ter the bank­ing halls.

“This is in an ef­fort to flat­ten the curve of COVID-19, as well as keep you, our cus­tomers and staff safe, while pro­vid­ing the pub­lic with the best pos­si­ble ser­vice,” BATT added. (GKA)


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