The alliance school agreement will also include a new electronic financial service center in the Trabant University Center. It will feature an on-site customer service representative and three advanced function ATMs in addition to nine on-campus PNC ATMs.
The other features to be provided will include personal banking products and services including Virtual Wallet Student (an online banking solution specially designed to help college students help themselves with money management). Students will also benefit from PNC AutoAlerts via e-mail and/or text message to help monitor spending and account balances.
Moreover, the features include the option for students to link the newly-redesigned University of Delaware i-card (identification card) to PNC accounts, adding ATM and purchasing functionality to the card used for daily campus-related purposes such as entering residence halls, checking out library books and accessing meal plans; Customized web sites, hosted by PNC, where students and employees can complete account applications, manage their finances and find financial and educational information.
Richard Elliott, assistant vice president of treasury services for the University of Delaware, said: “Through this relationship with PNC, which is highly regarded as the nation’s fifth largest bank, we are able to provide our campus community with access to proven money management tools and to the education necessary to develop successful financial habits.”
Connie Bond Stuart, regional president, Delaware at PNC Bank, said: “We are ready to provide the students and employees of one of the state’s leading institutions with user-friendly PNC resources to meet their personal banking needs. With our long history of serving the greater Newark community and with a majority of University of Delaware students from areas where PNC serves as their trusted bank, we are able to make it easier and more convenient for students to manage their money at home and at school.”
