Oman Post customers will now be able to make payments through their mobile phones as the postal company signed an agreement with Thawani, the innovative mobile e-Payment start-up launched in May, offering a safe and simple alternative payment method to cash, credit and debit cards.
“We are pleased to be the first company to sign a cooperation agreement with Thawani to provide e-Payment service through smartphones in all our post offices,” Oman Post stated.
It further said that the “agreement aims to provide an easier future for our customers as we seek to adopt the latest technologies”.
Thawani said it is honoured to be chosen the smart payment platform by Oman Post in line with its strategy for intelligent digital transformation.
Thawani ensures that it is one of the safest methods of payment by implementing banking standard security controls at application level and at data-centre level. Thawani is also compliant to both Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), as well as featuring additional level security protocols.
Commenting on the high levels of security offered by the app, Majid al Amri, CEO of Thawani noted, “Security and data integrity is extremely important for any mobile application, and it was our primary focus during the development of our platform. We wanted to ensure that we were compliant with not just local but also the latest international standards for data integrity and secure encryption. Thawani adopts very serious controls for fraud management, risk management, and anti-money laundering activities.”
Among the key features of these security controls is the linking of the user account to the user’s SIM card and device serial number. This will ensure that the application will not work if the SIM card is removed but the user still can change his SIM card through certain process.
All local cards transactions are secured with an additional PIN shared by a one-time-password (OTP) by the local payment gateway. The OTP will be sent to the registered owner number at the issuing bank. As a result, while making a transaction, the user doesn’t have to share his personal or banking details with any merchant.