UBA Goes Social, Unveil U-Social on Facebook

The frontline Nigeria financial brand, United Bank for Africa Plc has unveiled an online banking solution called U-Social, designed to promote financial inclusion and to make the bank’s services available to customers regardless of the time and their locations.

The bank in a statement said the U-Social offered flexibility and convenience to customers who desire to do banking transactions on social media using their Facebook account.

U-Social enables users to send money to other banks right from their Facebook page. It is as simple as a “click” and the money is sent, the bank said.

With U-Social, it said users could also pay for all cable TV bills right on their Facebook page without having to disengage from any interesting conversation thread that is on-going.

According to the statement, U-Social users can also buy airtime right from their Facebook page and have cheques confirmed cancelled and initiate new transactions while logged into their Facebook account.

The Divisional Head, e-banking, UBA, Mr. Yinka Adedeji says “The beauty of U-social is that it has simplified banking and made it part of the social media space.

“With UBA’s U-Social, Facebook is not just where people connect with friends and family, it is also the place anyone can do his or her banking with ease”.

According to the statement, U-Social comes as online-based application on Facebook, it is easy to download and immediately syncs with the user’s Facebook account