Dubai: Emirates NBD, one of the leading banks in the region has embarked on a pioneering initiative that will engage and empower customers to co-drive innovation at the bank.

The bank’s new ‘Better Together’ platform will bring together a panel of customers from all walks of life to actively engage in co-creation and beta testing of new innovations as well as carry out mystery shopping of the bank’s offerings, helping improve user experience and customer satisfaction.

As part of the programme, selected customers will work alongside Emirates NBD to co-create and design new products and services before they are rolled out to the public, with opportunities to share ideas and feedback along the way. The panel will also assist with carrying out mystery shopping across the bank’s branches and digital channels and provide in-depth feedback on their experience including suggestions to enhance the same.

Commenting on the initiative, Suvo Sarkar, Senior Executive Vice President and Head – Retail Banking and Wealth Management at Emirates NBD said: “Our Better Together platform is the region’s first such initiative in the banking industry and builds on our core values of customer-centricity and innovation to make banking simpler, easier and more intuitive.

By ensuring customer needs, ideas and feedback remain at the centre of our innovation process, we aim to not only enhance our banking solutions but also further improve customer journeys and user experiences.”

Better Together is part of Emirates NBD’s ongoing customer service enhancement programme, driven by the bank’s mission of making customers' lives simpler by providing solutions that help them fulfil their financial aspirations. Emirates NBD continues to make significant investments towards customer service excellence, focusing on both building a strong service culture among its employees as well as adopting technology-driven solutions to enhance and simplify customer engagement. Earlier this year, the bank was recognized for its service excellence and customer focus with awards for Business Change and Transformation, Best CX Strategy, Customer Complaints and Customer Experience Team at the Gulf Customer Experience Awards.

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About Emirates NBD
Emirates NBD is a leading banking Group in the region. As at 31st March 2019, total assets were AED 525.8 Billion, (equivalent to approx. USD 143 Billion). The Group has a significant retail banking franchise in the UAE and is a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with over 90 per cent of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of its branches. The bank was declared the Most Innovative Financial Services Organization of the Year at the 2017 BAI Global Innovation Awards.

The bank currently has 234 branches and 1076 ATMs and SDMs in the UAE and overseas and a large social media following, being the only bank in the Middle East ranked among the top 20 in the ‘Power 100 Social Media Rankings’, compiled by The Financial Brand. It is a major player in the UAE corporate and retail banking arena and has strong Islamic Banking, Global Markets & Treasury, Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Brokerage operations.

The Group has operations in the UAE, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom and representative offices in China, Indonesia and Turkey.

The Group is an active participant and supporter of the UAE’s main development and community initiatives, in close alignment with the UAE government’s strategies, including financial literacy and advocacy for inclusion of People with Disabilities under its #TogetherLimitless platform. Emirates NBD Group is a Premier Partner and the Official Banking Partner for Expo 2020 Dubai. For more information, please visit: www.emiratesnbd.com 

For further information on Emirates NBD, please contact:
Ibrahim Sowaidan
Senior Vice President
Head - Group Corporate Affairs
Emirates NBD
Telephone: +971 4 609 4113 / +971 50 6538937
e-mail: ibrahims@emiratesnbd.com
Tricia Kaul
asda’a bcw; Dubai, UAE
Tel: 971-4-4507600; Fax: 971-4-4358040
Email: Tricia.Kaul@bcw-global.com 

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