Global IME Bank makes an agreement for partnership with Khalti for Digital Payments

Global IME Bank Limited has consented to an aggreement with Khalti Digital Wallet to give a digital payment facility to its clients. Pukar Subedi – Head of Transaction Banking at Global IME and Amit Agrawal – Director of Khalti consented to a partnership arrangement in the midst of a function organized at the bank’s administrative center in Kamaladi, Kathmandu.

With this association, Global IME clients across the country would now be able to load funds in their Khalti wallet utilizing the bank’s mobile banking and internet banking service and make a wide range of digital payments available at Khalti’s foundation.

This coordinated effort is expected to additionally help in the adoption of digital payments in Nepal ultimately moving the nation towards an advanced and cashless economy.

Speaking about the agreement, Khalti’s Director Amit Agrawal shared,

“We are happy to collaborate with Global IME Bank to enable its customers to load their Khalti wallet easily and make payment for dozens of services within the wallet and at hundreds of merchants where we have enabled digital payment service. This initiative would help consumers make hassle-free digital payments, and go cashless. With this partnership, Khalti has taken another step ahead towards its mission of making digital payments possible to all the users across the country, ultimately making Nepal a cashless nation.”

Similarly, Global IME’s Pukar Subedi shared,

“We are trying to adopt digital technologies to facilitate easy solutions where our customers can fulfill all their banking and financial related requirements using their mobile phones. We are very excited to collaborate with Khalti to provide its seamless digital payment facility to all our customers.”

Started in January 2017, Khalti is an emerging mobile payment solution in Nepal. It provides various utility bill payment services, mobile recharge, DTH recharge, domestic flight booking, movie ticketing, event ticketing, hotel booking, newspaper subscriptions, and payments at online shopping sites among various other digital payments services. Khalti is a licensed Payment Service Provider from Nepal Rastra Bank.