One of the largest industries currently undergoing a seismic shift is financial services. The stark contrast from traditional financial institutions to new age (digital) financial services is tremendous, ranging from business efficiency, cost savings, increased accuracy, improved competitiveness, greater agility and most importantly enhanced security. The slick experience and transparency offered by challengers’ bring a great shift in customer loyalty.

Nowhere is that belief more embedded than in retail banking, a sector that has been the focus of consumer dissatisfaction and mistrust. Nevertheless, over 80% of Nigeria current account holders still use one of the ‘big six high street banks. If FINTECH really is going to make an outsized impact in this market, it needs to attract a more radical movement of customers and capital. And that means it needs a digital bank which can break out of the niche market of early adopters and into the mainstream.

We believe that bank is going to be Rubies, and we’re excited to have invested a $2M investment round to power the Technology driving it.

Rubies is a fully digital banking platform, offering zero fee banking targeted at millennials, young professionals, SMEs, quasi-financial institutions and FINTECH companies. Rubies brings new concepts to Banking Technology, Marketing and Engagements powered by Cloud Technology, AI and analytics.

Rubies Unique features and offerings:
Rubies ensures that every feature has something to offer to make the experience highly personalized. The following are some of its features:

Account number can be personalised (some use their phone numbers)

Free debit cards having your preferred name e.g. a nickname. It is also delivered to you at no cost

Money Request – for those who keep on giving excuses of not having your account number or even those that owe you money. This feature allows a customer to request money and instantly get credited from someone’s account number or even phone number. You request money from people, they only approve and you get credited. That simple!

Proximity Transfer – Sending money using location (The new Bluetooth for money transfer)

How Rubies allows customers earn money
With the aim of empowering people, Rubies brings to the market a unique feature, which allows anyone, become an Independent banker. What does it mean to be an independent banker you might ask?

If you are willing to run your own mini bank, Rubies serves as the platform for you to do that freely. You simply on-board your own “banking customers” using your unique link and every time your customer does a transaction, you earn money. Rubies wants everyone to take a piece of the pie.

The possibilities are endless.

What makes Rubies different from other banks?
Starting with the most sensitive topic these past couple of months, which is bank charges. Typically, traditional banks incur a lot of avoidable expenses – such as monstrous Technology cost, huge marketing cost, branch operations cost, big bankers’ salaries and so on. Rubies is entirely powered by Technology, home-grown software, Artificial Intelligence and analytics.

The cost is driven down to near zero. This makes it possible to waive charges and avoid all the “hidden” charges that traditional banks levy their customers. For interbank transactions, Rubies charges N21 (instead of N52 that traditional banks charge), this being the cost of the transaction payable to the switches, while Rubies earns nothing.

The technology invested in building Rubies is unparalleled, with the fast pace world of ever-growing technology, the use of artificial intelligence, data analytics and recommender systems aid to personalize each individual’s banking experience. In addition, for scalability, cloud computing allows scale, seamless customer growth as well as ensuring top-notch security.

Rubies has taken the disruptive and unorthodox approach to marketing using advocacy based techniques such as Independent Banker, freelance Brand Ambassadors and direct data-driven marketing.

Rubies is a Banking app on steroids. It provides banking functions much like any other banking solutions but it offers much more than most banking app.

Download the app here today and experience financial freedom

https://rubiesbank.page/fwu2

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