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NCR wins 'Best Smart Bank Project' honors for Nedbank branch

May 11, 2017

NCR Corp. has been awarded the 'Best Smart Branch Project' in Africa at The Asian Banker Technology Innovation Awards ceremony. NCR shares the honor with Nedbank, one of the largest banks in South Africa, and Bytes Managed Solutions, a leading technology company in Africa and an NCR partner, a company press release said.

Award-winning NCR technologies include NCR Interactive Teller, which allows a live teller to take remote control of an ATM to assist customers with up to 90 percent of transactions typically completed by tellers inside a branch. NCR was also recognized for NCR Interactive Banker, a technology that allows banks to leverage intuitive tablet enterprise technology in customer service.

"The move to NCR's innovative branch transformation solutions has enabled us to deliver exceptional banking experiences, and encourages us further to introduce other innovations that optimize banking for our customers," Nedbank Self Service Banking Executive Preni Naidoo said in the release.

The awards program is managed by a team of research analysts from Asian Banker Research with expertise in the banking industry in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Judges include leading practitioners, independent advisors and an international panel of industry experts, the release said.

The awards were presented in conjunction with the 'Future of Finance Middle East and Africa Convention' in Dubai, UAE on April 20.