Stanchart launches a 'Savings Revolution'

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Standard Chartered Bank has launched a campaign to promote a savings culture in Botswana.The Savings Revolution, as the campaign is called, comes at a time when there are several areas in which the country needs to undergo a mindset change that embraces the concept of saving rather than consuming.

Said Stanchart's Head of Consumer Banking, Pierre Mourier, last week: "In order to further incentivise savings, and following the success of the recent Personal Loans Win-a-Million Promotion, which created the first Standard Chartered Bank Millionaire, the bank is ready to create another millionaire, this time based on all these savings products.

"The next Win-a-Million promotion is being pre-launched now, once again to create a huge appetite for savings amongst Standard Chartered Bank clients in particular, and Botswana as a whole.

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