Deposit Money Banks have started sending
text messages and electronic mails to customers without Bank
Verification Number, asking them to come and complete the biometric
registration process.....
Some bank officials told our
correspondent on Monday that majority of customers affected by the
development were mostly those with names mismatch.
Customers, who have different names order across banks were mostly affected, it was learnt.
Our correspondent observed on Monday
that there were no queues in banking halls despite the court ruling
directing the Central Bank of Nigeria and 19 Deposit Money Banks to
freeze the bank accounts of customers without the BVN.
Bank officials told our correspondent on
Monday that the number of customers who had no BVN was very small
compared to those who had complied with the directive.
They stressed that efforts were being made to resolve names mismatch problems with their customers who had yet to get the BVN.
“”Efforts are being made to get everyone
to comply with the BVN directive. Prior to this directive, we have been
freezing the bank accounts of customers to enable them to comply. The
customers who are yet to do that are mostly those who have names
mismatch problems. This will be resolved soon,” a First Bank official
close to the development told our correspondent.
The spokesman for GTBank Plc, Oyinade
Adegite, said the bank would comply with the CBN directive to freeze
accounts and publish names if there was no contrary order within the
stipulated period.
She, however, said that the bank was taking steps to communicate with customers who had yet to do so.
It was learnt on Monday that GTBank had
sent mails to affected customers over the weekend asking them to come to
the banking hall to complete the BVN process.
No comments: