After the queues for the purchase of gasoline In Havana they would return to the virtual environment, now the Metropolitan Bank joins this experience, despite the severe electrical crisis that the island suffers with significant effects in connectivity.
At least two of its branches in Havana Vieja organized a shift reserve system through the Ticket application, designed to “expedite attention to the public” and “reduce agglomerations”, according to A note published in Havana Tribune.
This is the headquarters of the bank located in Cuba and O’Reilly and that of O’Reilly and Compostela. In both you can schedule appointments for cash services “up to a week in advance and up to 24 hours before.”
The shifts, the text adds, will be available between 8:30 am and 3:30 pm, and cover operations such as deposits, cash extraction “according to availability”, as well as collection of national and international checks and transfers.
At the moment, it is not clear if it is a commitment to the digitalization of services or an experiment that could be extended, in the future, to the entire banking system.
The web platform baptized Ticket was enabled just two years ago. It began in the Purchase and sale of freely convertible currency (MLC) in the 37 Cadec branches in the country. The goal was to end Long lines in the offices empowered for the recanje service, in addition to avoiding illegalities and contributing to better time management by customers.
Goodbye to cash? Electronic payment system on public buses are tested in Mayabeque
More recent, in March of this year, the queues were reorganized from the application for the purchase of gasoline In Havana. Among the reasons wielded for this, “the agglomerations, long lines by vehicle drivers in the services and social indisciplines that are generated around this phenomenon” were cited.
This last point, even when it was not explained, seemed to refer to the resale of shifts to enable the services and also of the gasoline itself illegally.
Days ago, a pilot test for the use of electronic payment on public buses has been tested in the province of Mayabequeaccording to official sources.
Cuba is going through a deep crisis that has the energy sector as one of the most affected. The lack of financing, together with the difficulties derived from the sanctions of the United States and others of an internal nature, translate into long blackouts and the chronic lack of fuel, which hits both electricity and transportation and economy in general.
