(Sukuk.net - The Peninsula) Qatar Islamic Bank yesterday launched its Internet banking service and is currently available to all QIB customers and will soon be accessible to corporate clients.

The service was launched to allow QIB to better serve its customers locally and around the globe. The new e-banking service allows QIB customers to obtain balance and transaction histories on all eligible accounts and to transfer money between eligible accounts with no restrictions on the number of transfers and to pay utility bills.

A variety of other services are provided on-line in both English and Arabic. The programmes are certified to ISO standards.

Salah Jaidah, QIB CEO, said: "QIB consistently strives to provide the best service to its clients and e-banking will allow us to provide a more efficient and innovative service and in a very secure banking environment. E-banking is a business-added value project designed to provide QIB clients efficiency and flexibility when transferring money or checking balance and transaction histories on-line.

QIB's IT department is committed to delivering excellence in information technology services to streamline QIB's business processes and to researching technology innovations so we may identify and implement new programmes that better serve our clients."

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