Western Union and Scotiabank have begun a pilot to offer customers across 42 Scotiabank branch locations in British Columbia, the Prairies and Ontario the ability to send outbound money transfers to more than 200 countries and territories through Western Union.
Based upon a successful pilot offer of Western Union’s money-transfer service, Scotiabank will rollout the service across its national branch network and Scotia Online in late January, 2008.
Chris Hodgson, executive vice president and head of domestic personal banking division at Scotiabank, said: This is a further step in our commitment to reflecting the unique needs of multicultural communities through our banking services. Today’s announcement enables us to provide Scotiabank customers in diverse communities across the country with the ability to send money to friends, family and business colleagues in 200 countries around the world in a safe, fast and convenient manner, simply by using their Scotia card.
