Quickteller promotes card-less withdrawals from ATMs

Mobile money users can now withdraw cash from the Automated Teller Machines without the need for a bank account or bank card.

Interswitch Transnational, a Pan-African integrated payment company, has announced that Quickteller is now backing card-less ATM withdrawals.

Quickteller offers mobile money users the opportunity to withdraw cash from their mobile money accounts or ‘cash out’ funds transferred to them, through ATMs across the country.

According to a statement by the firm, the service has been designed to specifically address the challenges of mobile money adoption which include insufficient cash out locations thereby enabling those without bank accounts and bank cards to have easier, more convenient and safer access to cash withdrawal.

The firm said the service was now available at over 6,000 ATMs on First Bank, GTBank, Stanbic Bank, United Bank for Africa and Zenith Bank.

Quickteller, it said, also provided a wide range of customers with a safe and secure way to buy airtime, pay bills and transfer funds at their convenience across the ATMs, Mobile, PoS and Web.

The statement quoted the Chief Payment and Value Added Services Officer, Interswitch Nigeria, Mrs. Titilola Shogaolu, as saying, “As part of our drive to deliver evident financial inclusion across the Nigerian populace, Interswitch’s Quickteller platform is proud to power the card-less ATM withdrawal service.

“We firmly believe that Nigerians everywhere, with or without a bank account, deserve to have access to contemporary payment technologies designed to simplify financial acce