Emirates NBD Mobile Banking App launches on HUAWEI AppGallery

2 Min | 07 December 2020

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region today announced that its Mobile Banking App is now available on the HUAWEI AppGallery, providing customers with added choice and flexibility.

Dubai, 07 December 2020: Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region today announced that its Mobile Banking App is now available on the HUAWEI AppGallery, providing customers with added choice and flexibility. The partnership with Huawei places Emirates NBD’s Mobile Banking App on the world’s third-largest app store that has over 500 million monthly active users.

Emirates NBD Mobile Banking offers safe and secure on-the-go banking convenience allowing users to carry out their daily banking transactions or apply for new products easily. New customers can open accounts instantly by simply scanning in their identification documents. Existing users can carry out a variety of transactions such as sending money to friends and family using DirectRemit or mePay services, make bill payments to over 30 utility and other providers, update contact details, block lost cards, request for statements and cheque books or apply for a new loan or credit card. The Smart Pass soft token generator within the app enables customers to authorize digital transactions using high encryption standards, offering strong two-factor authentication as an added layer of protection.

These features are further reinforced by the HUAWEI AppGallery, which provides a safe platform for finance apps through its full-cycle security and protection system. This ensures developers are verified and all apps in the marketplace are secure and maintain the data privacy of users.

Suvo Sarkar, Senior Executive Vice President Retail Banking & Wealth Management at Emirates NBD said: “We are pleased to partner with Huawei to make available our Mobile Banking App in the AppGallery. With customers becoming increasingly digital and mobile first, this will enable all our customers to easily access our state-of-the-art mobile banking services to carry out their daily banking requirements conveniently and in a secure manner.”

Lu Geng, Vice President, Middle East and Africa Global Partnerships & Eco-Development, Huawei Middle East said: “Huawei is proud to announce that Emirates NBD - ranked as the UAE’s top banking brand - has become the latest financial institution to become part of our growing Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem. The addition of Emirates NBD highlights the rapid growth of our portfolio of banking and financial apps now available on the HUAWEI AppGallery. This has been made possible by our commitment to establishing a safe and secure platform that gives businesses and consumers the confidence they need to take advantage of the convenience that mobile banking delivers.”

Huawei works closely with local partners in the banking and finance sector across a wide range of areas during the development of an app from distribution, operation to data analytics and marketing. This focus on supporting high-quality, innovative apps that meet the needs of local users, while also offering popular global applications has enabled the HUAWEI AppGallery to quickly become a top three global app marketplace.

The HUAWEI AppGallery is available in over 170 countries and regions in the world. In addition, over 2 million global developers have joined the Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem with more than 96,000 applications already integrated with HMS Core worldwide, offering users even more unique experiences. The cumulative app distribution in the first 9 months of 2020 exceeded 294 billion.

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