Westpac expands banking in Vanimo

Westpac ATMs installed in Vanimo. Photo credit: Westpac
Pacific 

Westpac customers in the idyllic town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea’s Sandaun Province can now conduct their banking with greater ease thanks to the installation of a new Westpac Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) outside a local branch.
The new ATM facility is located outside the new Vanimo Supermarket. The supermarket also contains a Westpac branch, allowing customers to apply for personal loans or cards and conduct a range of banking transactions.
Vanimo is the capital of Sandaun Province and is located on a peninsula close to the border with Indonesia. According to Westpac PNG’s Head of Retail Banking, Adam Downie, the ATM is a bonus for residential customers as well as visiting customers passing through the busy town.
“Customers can now conveniently withdraw cash at the ATM and shop at their ease in the supermarket or cross the road to buy goods at the Vanimo market,” said Mr Downie.
"Westpac is proud to be expanding the convenient banking services we provide in Vanimo. We have the second largest ATM fleet in the country and our Vanimo ATM is just one in a number we have rolled out in regional PNG recently, with more to come. ATMs complement our very successful Mobile Banking platform, In-stores and branch network to bring convenience and flexibility to our customers, wherever they are.”
Westpac operates in seven Pacific countries, the Cook Islands, Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu through its network of more than 50 branches and more than 100 ATMs, its online services and thousands of merchants.