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UAE's ADIB offers new smart deals app

Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, a leading financial institution, has launched a new mobile app offering a wide range of exclusive deals to customers holding any of the bank’s cards. The free ADIB smartdeals app provides a new, convenient channel for customers to make significant savings across fine and casual dining, shopping, lifestyle, wellness, travel, car rental and family activities.

Competing with the UAE’s best deal apps, the ADIB smartdeals app currently holds over 1,000 offers across the UAE and Oman, including a range of exclusive iftar and suhoor offers. The platform encompasses features which allow customers to track spending and savings, rate and prioritise their favourite deals, use Google Maps to reach offer locations, while also delivering special alerts for seasonal promotions.

Over 75% of deals available through smartdeals allow for unlimited redemptions, with the app’s analytics harnessing data collected to promote relevant offers based on a customer’s individual preferences.

Philip King, Head of Retail Banking in the UAE at ADIB, said: “We are always striving to implement technological solutions to deliver a banking experience which can enhance our customers’ lifestyles. The intuitive ADIB smartdeals app provides access to deals which can enable customers to make significant savings while also keeping careful track of their finances. Through partnerships with some of the region’s leading retail and entertainment brands, we have assembled an array of exciting offers on a mobile app which is convenient to access and simple for our customers to enjoy.”

ADIB has witnessed rapid growth in customers using digital channels led by mobile devices. Users of ADIB’s digital banking channels have more than doubled in the last 12 months, while smartphone transactions increased by 72 per cent in the first quarter of 2017. As part of its digital innovations strategy, the Bank has also recently revamped its internet banking platform to enable customers to conduct their banking online in a simpler and more intuitive manner consistent with the look and feel of the new mobile app.

The ADIB smartdeals app can be downloaded on iOS and Android. For more information, please visit www.adib.ae or call 600 543216.

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About ADIB
ADIB is a leading bank in the UAE with more than AED 122 billion in assets. Its 938,072 customers benefit from the third largest distribution network in the UAE with 83 branches and more than 740 ATMs. The bank also offers world-class online, mobile and phone banking services, providing clients with seamless digital access to their accounts 24 hours a day. ADIB provides retail, corporate, business, private banking and wealth management solutions. The bank was established in 1997 and its shares are traded on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX).

In the UAE, the Bank has more than 2,000 employees and remains one of the leading banks in the recruitment, development and promotion of local talent in all the markets in which it operates. The bank has one of the highest Emiratisation ratios with more than 40 percent of the bank’s workforce being UAE Nationals.

ADIB has presence in six strategic markets: Egypt, where it has 70 branches, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Sudan, Iraq and Qatar.

Named “Best Bank in the UAE” by The Financial Times’ The Banker publication, ADIB has a rich track record of innovation, including introducing the award-winning Ghina savings account, award-winning co-branded cards with Etihad and Etisalat and a wide range of financing products.



Source: http://www.zawya.com/mena/en/business/story/UAEs_ADIB_launches_new_smart_deals_app-ZAWYA20170610075743/

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