{"id":390177,"date":"2020-04-16T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=390177"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:05:45","slug":"standard-bank-is-now-on-whatsapp-to-help-with-debt-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/390177\/standard-bank-is-now-on-whatsapp-to-help-with-debt-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank is now on WhatsApp to help with debt relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank South Africa has launched a chatbot on WhatsApp to keep its customers up to date with its services, debt relief offerings and other important information relevant during this Covid-19 period.<\/p>\n<p>The chatbot will provide accurate and verified information on Standard Bank\u2019s response to Covid-19, answers to frequently asked questions and links to official sources of information on the pandemic and countrywide lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that South Africans are isolated but still need information. It was important for us to develop this tool so that we could provide our customers with the banking-related information that they need instantly and on a platform which they understand, and communicate on every day,\u201d said the bank&#8217;s Deepesh Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>To access the Standard Bank chatbot, customers can send a message via WhatsApp to +27 64 570 0291.<\/p>\n<p>The information that will be available on this service include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What banking service are available during the lockdown.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/385513\/standard-bank-to-help-individual-loan-customers-with-payment-relief-and-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What relief is being offered<\/a> to clients whose income is affected by the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>What measures are in place to curb the spread of the virus at Standard Bank locations.<\/li>\n<li>Standard Bank\u2019s responsibilities to economic activity.<\/li>\n<li>How Standard Bank is supporting government relief efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Where South Africans can get more information on COVID 19 in South Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFinancial services are an essential service under the lockdown and to make access to services easier for our clients, we are urging people to use our digital platforms, such as My360 and Shyft, and our online banking and mobile banking platforms,\u201d said Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said that the chatbot will continue to evolve, by continuously adding features that are relevant to customers, including a call me back function and an interactive option that will allow clients to speak directly to a call centre agent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/385743\/standard-bank-announces-second-wave-of-covid-19-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Standard Bank announces second wave of Covid-19 relief<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank South Africa has launched a chatbot on WhatsApp to keep its customers up to date with its services, debt relief offerings and other important information relevant during this Covid-19 period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[26,499],"class_list":["post-390177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-headline","tag-standard-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390187,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390177\/revisions\/390187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}