Saturday, June 10, 2006

Banking: UAE introduces scratch and win promotion to fight money laundering

The Khaleeji Times, reports that in an effort to support anti-money laundering initiatives of the Central Bank of the UAE, UAE Exchange has introduced a scratch and win promotion for Bangladeshi expatriates to encourage them to use banking channels to transfer money.

In the scratch and win promotion, every customer who does a remittance transaction to Bangladesh would get a coupon to scratch and become a winner. Every coupon has a special prize to offer.

The sponsors of the promotion include Aabharan Jewellers and Supra and media partners are Channel I and Bangla Radio.