Commercial Bank of Ethiopia: Branch Banking Procedure
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia: Branch Banking Procedure
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia: Branch Banking Procedure
BANK OF ETHIOPIA
Branch Banking
Procedure
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March, 2019
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia March 2019
Contents
Acronyms .............................................................................................................................................xiii
CHAPTER ONE.................................................................................................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Preamble................................................................................................................................. 1
1.2 Definition of Terms and Concepts ......................................................................................... 2
1.3 Objectives of the Procedure ................................................................................................... 6
1.4 Scope of the Procedure........................................................................................................... 7
1.5 Governing Rules ..................................................................................................................... 7
1.6 The Structure of Branch Operation ...................................................................................... 7
1.7 General Authority and Responsibility ................................................................................. 14
1.7.1 President and CEO ......................................................................................................... 14
1.7.2 Chief Business Officer.................................................................................................... 15
1.7.3 Vice President Banking Service ...................................................................................... 15
1.7.4 District Director ............................................................................................................. 15
1.7.5 Branch Manager ............................................................................................................. 16
1.7.6 Manager, Branch Business.............................................................................................. 17
1.7.7 Manager, Branch Operation ............................................................................................ 18
1.7.8 Manager, Branch Control ............................................................................................... 19
1.7.9 Manager, Western Union Center (also applies to International Service Special branch) ... 20
1.7.10 Customer Service Manager-Sales ................................................................................... 20
1.7.11 Customer Service Manager-Service ................................................................................ 21
CHAPTER TWO................................................................................................................................. 21
CUSTOMER ACQUISITION AND SELLING OF CBE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ............... 21
2.1 Customer Acquisition .......................................................................................................... 21
2.2 Customer ID Creation.......................................................................................................... 23
2.3 Account Opening and Contract Maintenance ..................................................................... 25
2.3.1 Saving Accounts Opening............................................................................................... 26
2.3.2 Demand /Current/ Accounts Opening ............................................................................. 27
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CHAPTER THREE............................................................................................................................. 57
COLLECTION.................................................................................................................................... 57
3.1. Collection through Conventional Channels ............................................................................. 57
3.1.1. Cash Collection ...................................................................................................................... 57
3.1.1.1 Collection of Cash to Deposit in LCY Account ............................................................... 57
3.1.1.3. Selling of FCY .................................................................................................................. 59
3.1.1.4. Purchase of FCY cash notes .............................................................................................. 60
3.1.1.5. Local Money Transfer/Fund Transfer ................................................................................ 61
3.1.1.6 Issuance of Banker’s Cheque .............................................................................................. 62
3.1.1.7 Foreign Money Transfer ................................................................................................. 63
4.1.2 Collection of Cheques and Banker’s Cheque................................................................... 65
4.1.2.1 CBE Cheques/Banker’s Cheque...................................................................................... 65
3.1.2.2. Other Banks’ Cheques / Banker’s Cheque ......................................................................... 65
3.1.2.3 Collection of Other Bank Cheque/Banker’s Cheque through Special Clearance............... 69
3.1.3 Foreign Bank Cheques.................................................................................................... 70
3.1.3.1 Outward Bills Purchased (OBP) ..................................................................................... 70
3.1.3.2 Outward Bills for Collection (OBC) ............................................................................... 71
3.1.4 MT103 from Other/foreign Bank .................................................................................... 72
3.1.5 Collection at the Premises of a customer ......................................................................... 72
3.1.5.1 Cashier Implant .................................................................................................................. 72
3.1.5.2 Collection through Cash Pickup Service ............................................................................. 75
3.1.6 Collection through Pay at Bank (ET Airlines) ................................................................. 76
3.2. Collection through Digital Banking Channels ......................................................................... 76
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6.1.2.5 Reconciliation of Foreign Cash Notes Exchange on Forex ATMs ................................ 121
6.1.2.6 Exceptions in ATM Reconciliation and Balancing ........................................................ 122
6.1.2.6.1 ATM Cash Withdrawal without Affecting Customer Accounts (CBE Cardholder) .... 122
6.1.2.6.2 Debiting Customer Accounts without Dispensing Cash (CBE Cardholder) ................ 123
6.1.2.6.3 Forex ATM Machine captures currency notes, but doesn’t dispense cash .................. 124
6.1.3 POS Reconciliation and Balancing ................................................................................ 124
6.1.3.1 Merchant POS Transactions .......................................................................................... 124
6.1.3.2 POS Cash Advance Transactions .................................................................................. 125
6.1.3.3 Exceptions in POS Transactions .................................................................................... 126
6.1.3.3.1 Incomplete Transactions and Amount Locked .......................................................... 126
6.1.3.3.2 Transactions not reflected on Merchant Account ..................................................... 126
6.1.3.3.3 Refunding unsuccessful Transactions on Merchant’s POS....................................... 127
6.1.4 CBE Birr Transaction Reconciliation............................................................................ 127
6.2 General Ledger Position follow-up .................................................................................... 128
6.2.1 System Suspense ............................................................................................................. 128
6.2.2 ATM Suspense Account ................................................................................................. 129
6.2.3 Abnormal Balances of accounts ..................................................................................... 129
6.3 Transaction Checking and Custody of Documents ........................................................... 130
CHAPTER SEVEN ........................................................................................................................... 131
CUSTOMER PROFILE MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................... 131
7.1 Customer’s Request to Change Name ............................................................................... 131
7.1.1 Customer Name is not properly recorded on the system .............................................. 131
7.1.2 Customer Name Changes Request by Court Order ...................................................... 131
7.2 Customer’s Request for Changing Signature.................................................................... 132
7.3 Customer’s Account Status Change request ..................................................................... 133
7.4 Handling Power of Attorney .............................................................................................. 134
7.5 CBE Birr Profile Management .......................................................................................... 134
7.5.1 CBE Birr Customer Level Update / Upgrade................................................................ 134
7.5.2 Updating the CBE Birr Agent’s /Merchant’s Profile .................................................... 135
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Annexes
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Acronyms
Acronyms
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BM Branch Manager
CBE Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
DBE Development Bank of Ethiopia
EATS Ethiopian Automated Transfer System
ECX Ethiopian Commodity Exchange
EDRMS Electronic Documents Recording and Management System
EFIC Ethiopian Financial Intelligence Center
EJ Electronic Journal
GL General Ledger
JO Junior Officer
IB Internet Banking
IFTS Inter-bank Funds Transfer System
KYC Know Your Customer
MB Mobile Banking
MBB Manager Branch Business
MMS Mobile Money System
POS Point Of Sale
RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement
SBBO Senior Banking Business Officer
SBOO Senior Banking Operation Officer
USSD Un-structured Supplementary Service Data
XHTML Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language
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Whereas, the existing process based organizational structure has served the bank since 2008;
Whereas, there is a need to review the existing organizational structure to align with CBE’s
corporate strategy and in light of the increase in business volume by designing product oriented
organizational structure;
Whereas, the basic design principles of the new organizational structure is to segregate the front
and back office activities to bring operational excellence;
Whereas, there is a need to establish a strong internal control team in branches with the main
objective of operational efficiency and effectiveness, asset safeguarding, reliability of financial
reporting and compliance with relevant laws and regulations to achieve organizational
objectives;
Whereas, there is a need to create product and channel ownership to mobilize resources to
ensure sustainable business growth;
Now, therefore, it becomes important to develop and introduce the new “Branch Banking
Procedure”.
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Commercial Bank of Ethiopia March 2019
For the purpose of this procedure, the following terms and concepts shall be defined as follows:
1. Agent: Shall mean a person engaged in a commercial/business activity and has been
contracted by the bank to provide the services on its behalf.
2. Agent Float Account: shall mean a trading account which is used to provide services (such
as customer deposit, customer withdrawal, and account to account transfer between agents)
for customers or agents.
3. Agent’s Short Code: shall mean an ID to the agents to register and be identified in CBE Birr
System.
4. Authorization: shall mean the process of approving or declining any business transactions.
5. Automated Teller Machine (ATM): shall refer to unattended acceptance terminal that has
electronic capacity, accepts PIN, disburses money, and may provide balance confirmation,
fund transfers between accounts and other services.
6. Banker’s Cheque: shall mean a type of transferable instrument prepared by banks as per
customer request and is payable upon presentation. It is endorsable to the purchaser only and
is valid for six months. It is also known as Cashier payment order (CPO).
7. Biller: shall mean a merchant that allow a customer to initiate a transaction to pay different
kinds of bills, tickets, subscriptions and services using CBE Birr solution.
8. Bio-metrics: shall mean an electronic device used to capture a digital image of the finger
print pattern.
9. Cash Advance Service: shall mean a feature that allows cardholders to withdraw cash over-
the-counter at bank.
10. Card clearing: shall refer to all of functions necessary to collect a clearing record from an
acquirer in transaction currency and delivery to issuer in billing currency.
11. Cheque Clearing: shall mean the process of moving a cheque from the bank in which it was
deposited to the bank on which it was drawn, and the movement of the money in the opposite
direction.
12. Checking: shall mean ascertaining the completeness and correctness of the source document
and the transaction as per the bank procedure.
13. CBE Birr Control Account: shall mean an account that is mirror to a trust bank account
maintained in CBE Birr system, and reflects the total value in CBE Birr System.
14. CBE Birr Till: shall mean a number that is related to operator cell phone number and used
by agent operator’s in CBE birr to process various services.
15. Core Banking: shall mean a banking system that is centralized, online and real-time
exchange which is provided by networked branches of the bank through which customers
may access their bank account and perform basic transactions.
16. Corporate Customer: shall mean a legal or an artificial person, organizations, enterprises,
associations, government offices and the like that the bank is dealing with.
17. Co-branded Cards: shall mean a card that is offered by the bank based on contractual
agreement between the bank and interested organization to join efforts and launch one-card
featuring both brands for mutual benefit.
18. Customer: shall mean a legal person or natural person with whom the bank agrees to
conduct business.
19. Debit Card – (pay now): shall mean payment card which is used to debit from the customer
account at the time of transaction.
20. Delinquent List ( Mal-operation list) :shall mean the register held by the National Bank of
Ethiopia, indicating the names of demand deposit account holders whose cheque have been
dishonored repeatedly and whose accounts are closed by banks.
21. Diaspora Accounts: Shall mean a foreign currency account opened for Ethiopians living
abroad (who lived abroad for more than one year); and eligible foreign nationals of Ethiopian
origin.
22. Document Authentication: shall mean the process of checking the genuineness of
documents from the issuing organs.
23. Downloadable Channel: shall mean a type of mobile banking service that allow customer to
download CBE’s Mobile Banking Application using smart phone apparatus.
24. Exceptions - shall mean events that are not clearly stated on this procedure while their nature
is within the spirit of this procedure.
25. Financial Transaction: shall mean an event which involves money or payment, such as
deposit money into a bank account, borrow money to customers.
26. Floor Limit shall mean maximum amount of money allowed for a single card based
transaction without the need for authorization.
27. Foreign-Currency Accounts: shall mean an account whose source of fund is overseas and
that can be maintained in foreign currency.
28. Hard Limit: shall mean a compulsory minimum balance on the float account of CBE birr
system that agents shall retain in their account to properly perform their daily activities.
29. Issuer (Issuing Bank): shall mean a financial institution and member of International
Payment System that holds contractual agreement(s) with and issues cards to cardholder.
30. Inter Branch: shall mean a transaction whose source account and destination account are
held at different branches.
31. Internal Control: shall mean a process effected by an entity’s board of directors,
management, and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
achievement of organizational objectives relating to operational, reporting and compliance.
32. Magnetic Stripe (Magstripe): Shall mean a strip of magnetic material affixed to the back of
a card that contains cardholder’s account information.
33. Merchant: shall mean an entity that contract with an acquirer to originate transactions and
accepts cards for payment and displaying bank’s and the issuer's logo.
34. Mnemonic: shall mean an alternative and easy means of identifying the customer by
inserting the customer’s name first letter and telephone number or TIN number.
35. Mobile Money System (MMS): shall mean performing banking activities which primarily
consists of opening and maintaining mobile/regular accounts and accepting deposits;
Furthermore, it includes performing fund transfer or cash in and cash out services using
mobile devices.
36. National e-Payment Switch :shall mean the National e-Payment Switch and related systems
as well as the corresponding Data Center and Network Infrastructure operated by Ethio-pay.
37. Non-Financial Transaction: Shall mean an event which doesn’t involve transfer of funds
between accounts.
38. Online Banking: shall mean an electronic payment system that enables customers of a bank
to conduct a range of financial transactions through the bank’s website.
39. Overdraft Account: shall mean a demand deposit account from which withdrawal of money
beyond the available balance is allowed up to the maximum approved ceiling/ limit.
40. Personal Identification Number (PIN): shall mean a secret numeric password shared
between the user and the electronic payment system which is used to access the electronic
banking service.
41. Point of Sale (POS) Terminal: shall mean an electronic device used for authorizing and
processing Bank card transactions at the point of sale.
42. Prepaid Card (pay before): Shall mean type of payment card where the card balance is
loaded ahead of time from customer’s account or collecting of cash.
43. Prospect Customer: shall mean a proposed (potential) customers in which the bank assumes
to deal with business in the future.
44. Single-Message Processing: shall mean a processing methodology wherein transaction
authorization, clearing and settlement are facilitated through single exchange of messages
between an acquirer and issuer.
45. Smart/ Chip cards: Shall mean plastic payment cards with an embedded computer chip that
communicate information to a chip-reading device during transactions.
46. Soft Limit: shall mean minimum balance that CBE birr Agents shall maintain in their CBE
birr account to properly perform their daily activities; i.e., the balance is not retained in their
float account rather agents will be monitored and advised to keep the proper balance.
47. Switch Member: shall mean Ethio-pay member Bank operating with own or shared switch
for interbank retail card payments with other member banks.
48. Switch: shall mean a system that handles different electronic payments and channels among
banks.
49. Tracer: shall mean a list of items in the subsidiary ledger that whose total shall agree with
the general ledger balance that the source may be kept manually or on the system like CPO’s
payable, LMTS payable, account receivables, etc.
50. Teller ID: shall mean an identification number that identifies the staff that involved in cash
related tasks on the core banking system.
51. Till to Till Transfer: shall mean the transfer of cash from banking business officer - (at
front) to senior banking operation officer-cash or vice versa through the system.
52. Till to Vault Transfer: shall mean the transfer of cash from the senior banking operation
officer -cash to Vault through the system.
53. Unregistered CBE birr Customer: shall mean customers captured in CBE birr system only
with cell phone number; These customers typically have very limited access to the services.
54. Vault to Till Transfer: shall mean the transfer of cash from the Vault to senior customer
service officer-cash through the system.
55. Verification of Signature: shall mean the checking of the signature with naked eye without
sending the document/instrument to external forensic department.
a. At Head Office
VP-Banking Service
Manager-Mobile
Money
VP-Banking Operation
Manager-Local
Local Manager-Customer
Currency Accounts and Bonds Manager-Card
Card
Personlaization
Manager-Foreign
Foreign Manager-ATS
Currency Manager-Accounts
Accounts
and Reconciliations
Conventional
Manager-Issue
Issue Paymnet
Manager-Technical
Technical
accounts Instruments Support
b. At District Offices
Director District
Manager-Credit Manager-Credit
Credit Manager-HR Manager-
Manager
Manager- Manager
Management Appraisal Business Operation and
Banking Business Quality
Partnering Logistic assurance
At Branch
Special and Grade IV Branches
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Branch Manager
Banking Business
Cash Office Officer
Attendant
Customer Service
Officer
Junior Officer
Bank Trainee
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Branch Manager
Bank Trainee
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Grade II branch
Branch Manager
Digtal Banking
Banking Operation Officer
Officer
Banking Business
Officer
Junior- Officer
Customer Service
Bank Trainee Officer
Cash Office
Attendant Junior Officer
Bank Trainee
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At Grade I branch
Branch
Manager
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a. Plan, direct and coordinate the activities of the team within the approved Branch
Banking procedure, guidelines and directives of the bank;
b. Ensure effective and efficient operation is in place within the branches under the district’s
domain;
c. Ensure whether branch managers are properly monitoring and leading their respective
staff for better performance;
d. Support branches and district office staffs in implementing the Branch Banking
procedure;
e. Ensure appropriate risk identification, measurement and management is in place in
operational activities of the branches and district;
f. Ensure timely rectification of discrepancies and comments reported by internal audit and
district internal control and take the necessary remedial action;
g. Ensure proper understanding and awareness is created on the procedure by all performers
of the Branch Banking Business;
h. Ensure the operational activities of the branches are meant to satisfy customers without
compromising the Bank’s interest;
i. Oversee the overall district operational matters and the service delivery of the district
and take appropriate action if deemed necessary;
j. Approve and conclud agreement for Cash pick up service and Casher implant service
with high value customers ; and
k. Keep the cash and ATM vault combination code of all branches under the districts
domain.
d. Perform regular assessment of all branch –related work practices and propose
improvements, where necessary;
e. Participate in development, expansion and management of customer and business
relationships within the Branch;
f. Manage service levels against customer expectations;
g. Ensure compliance and monitoring is in place in accordance with rules, regulations, and
standards;
h. Keep District management regularly informed of trends and development in the Branch
environment;
i. Set team objectives, goals , and performance standards and facilitate team’s alignment and
goal cascading;
j. Provide follow –up on audit report findings related to the Branch’s work and take any
necessary remedial action; and
k. Analyze needs, asses the capacities of staff, and propose continuous education (e.g. training
plan, TOT, seminars).
l. Train, coach, facilitate and take corrective and administrative action for the proper
implementation of this procedure in the branch domain.
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f. Motivate and coach banking business officers responsible for the delivery of high quality
services;
g. Enhance the bank’s image through pro-active customer –driven servicing of their needs to
maximize customer satisfaction;
h. Facilitate the provision of efficient and high quality service to customers;
i. Prepare and implement periodic job rotation plan for the Branch Business staff ;
j. Identify areas of risk and non-compliance with procedures;
k. Evaluate periodic plans , as well as marketing plans and sales plans ,and prepare
recommendations for revisions or improvements;
l. Rectify audit report findings related to the Branch’s Business work and take any necessary
remedial action;
m. Analyze needs, asses the capacities of staff, and propose continuous education (e.g.
training plan, TOT, seminars); and
n. Performs the duties and responsibilities of Customer Service Manager-Sales/Service
where they are not assigned or in their temporary absence.
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l. Make Operational Risk Assessment of the branch and follow up the mitigation plan drawn
by the branch.
m. Ensure that all day to day activities are performed in compliance with rules and regulation.
n. Monitor System Access Control in the Branch
1.7.9 Manager, Western Union Center (also applies to International Service Special
branch)
a. Manage and coordinate the overall branch management to effectively provide all front –
office services;
b. Plan, coach, and coordinate the Western Union center activities;
c. Participate in the development, expansion and management of customer and business
relationships within the center, concentrating efforts in meeting customer needs;
d. Manage service levels against customer expectations;
e. Ensure compliance and monitoring is in place in accordance with international and local
rules, regulations and standards (NBE directives);
f. Synchronize the work and communicate constraints and problems with the International
Banking Service;
g. Regularly evaluate the performance the employee under his/her team;
h. Rectify audit report findings related to the overall Branch’s work and take any necessary
remedial action; and
i. Analyze needs, asses the capacities of staff, and propose continuous education (e.g. training
plan, TOT, seminars).
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CHAPTER TWO
CUSTOMER ACQUISITION AND SELLING OF CBE PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES
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f. Recruits potential customers from internal leads generated and sales initiatives to achieve
the annual customer acquisition and deposit mobilization plan;
g. Sets sales call appointment for qualified sales leads and provides the branch’s contact
person/telephone for any enquiry; and
h. Follows up the performance of newly recruited top customers, agents and merchants.
Customer ID shall be created only if customer does not have Customer ID in the bank to avoid
duplication. If a customer has different existing IDs, merging is possible at any branch.
Customer IDs to be merged shall be verified and make sure that the customer has confirmed
same thereof (Refer Form No. CBEBBF001)
b. Ensure eligibility criterion are fulfilled , all required documents are collected from the
customer as prescribed on the Customer Classification, Products, Services Features Booklet
(Refer annex 1) and perform one of the following steps;
1. Provides pre-printed application form along with terms and conditions (Refer Form
No. CBEBBF002) and guide how to fill in fields along with signature;
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2. Checks that mandatory and other fields are properly filled in and signed by the
customer;
3. Checks if the customer can replicate his/he signature or advise him/he to sign by
writing his//her name of use thump print; and
4. Inserts required information to the core banking system from the filled and singed
application form;
1. Interviews and inserts required information on EDRMS and prints system generated
application form;
2. Provides the printed application form to the customer to confirm the accuracy of the
information and to fill the remaining information;
3. Checks if the customer can replicate his/he signature or advise him/he to sign by
writing his//her name of use thump print; and
4. Attaches the printed application with terms and conditions and makes the customer
sign for acknowledgment.
c. Attests the thumb print for blind or illiterate customers who are unable to sign and affixes a
rubber stamp that reads “signed before me” or writes the word “signed before me” along with
her/his initial;
d. Requests two witnesses one from the bank and the other from customer side for blind
customers or that use thumb print as a signature for saving account only. If the customer is
unable to present a witness from her/his side the Manager Branch Business will become a
witness for the customer.
e. Takes customer’s finger print using Bio-metrics device and takes customers picture by using
digital camera configured with system ,if available and attach to the account details;
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f. Checks proper Mnemonic is generated for new customer Id creation if customer ID already
exists he/she only updates customer information;
h. Forwards the application form and customer’s identification card to Senior Banking
Business Officer for authorization of customer ID creation.
a. Ascertains that the name of the customer requesting to open an account does not appear on
the mal-operation list for demand account and any other restriction/sanction laid down by
authorized organ;
a. The customer can lodge account opening request for local currency account in either of
the following ways:
At Conventional Payment at Head Office for opening of more than one account in
different branches and opening of ECX and Government accounts; In either ways, a
performer shall ensure that account opening process comes after customer ID is
created.
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b. For FCY Accounts the customer can lodge account opening request in either of the
following ways:
i. Fills out the necessary particulars on the passbook and attaches the photo if digital camera is
not available to take a photo;
j. Collects initial deposits , posts transaction ,gives deal slip and passbook to the customers ;
and forwards all vouchers and application form to Senior Banking Business Officer for
transaction checking and authorization ;
k. Scans the signature on the core banking system OR scan all documents on EDRMS
(customer on board system) and gives back the original application form to the customer as
appropriate and forwards documents to Senior Branch Controller / Branch Controller;
and
l. Balances her/his cash on a half day and end of the cash hour and hands it over to the Senior
Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash.
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a. Requests the customer to present acceptable required documents as per the eligibility
requirement to open new account;
b. Checks that the required documents contains all the relevant information;
c. Opens new account on the system after customer Id is created;
d. Ensure that the right product code or category is selected from the system;
e. Attaches a photo on application form for individual accounts holder/ signatory if digital
camera is not available to take the photo;
f. Writes the system generated account number on the deposit slip, cheque requisition form
and on the application form;
g. Explains and sells to the customers about card banking, online banking or CBE birr services
as appropriate ;
h. Subscribes the customer for SMS alert privilege by checking the validity of the telephone
number filled by the customer which is mandatory;
i. Collects cash or cheque to be deposited, posts transaction and give deal slip;
j. Makes the customer fill cheque requisition form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF003) and
forwards to Senior Banking Business Officer for cheque preparation;
k. Scans the application form, terms and conditions, authenticated documents on the core
banking system and forwards documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller
OR scan all documents on EDRMS (customer on board system) and gives back the original
application form to the customer as appropriate;
l. Forwards all vouchers and application form to Senior Banking Business Officer for
checking and authorization; and
m. Balances her/his cash on a half day and end of the cash hour and hands it over to the Senior
Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash.
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b. Ensures that the customer’s name is not on the mal-operation list and any other
restriction/sanction laid down by authorized organ;
c. Checks the proper scanning of all original documents of the customer and application forms;
d. Authorizes accounts opened and amendment on customer record initiated by Banking
Business Officer on the system if any;
e. Prepares cheques as per the request of the customer;
f. Issues the cheque to the customer after properly register cheque number with proper category
both on the system and cheque delivery register book;
g. Checks cheques are properly issued on the system and charges are collected from the
customer account;
h. Hands over the cheque to the customer or signatory or delegated person by signing on cheque
delivery register book;
i. Ensures various digital channels (like card banking, online banking or CBE birr services…)
as appropriate are sold to customers; and
j. Forwards all vouchers and application form to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch
Controller for checking and documentation;
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d. Prepares LIBOR interest rate requisition letter, sends it to Treasury Department, collects
the offered interest rate and informs the customer;
e. Requests the customer to sign on the registered copy and deliver the certificate of time
deposit and the customer advice;
f. Sets the next agreed period on the system if the customer agrees a principal rollover and the
bank accepts her/his request upon maturity;
g. Collects old certificate, issues a new certificate for the remaining balance after signing the
contract and amends the certificate number on the system if the customer requests partial
withdrawal before maturity.
Foreign currency deposit accounts, Diaspora accounts, foreign retention accounts shall be
opened at International Service Special Branch and permitted branches based on eligibility and
required document check list (Refer Annex 1).
Banking Business Officer:
a. Collects customer’s account opening documents from Manager Branch Business for
account opening requests presented through different outlets and embassies;
b. Opens new account on the system after customer Id is created;
c. Ensures that the right product code or category is selected from the system;
d. Attaches a photo on the application form for individual accounts if digital camera is not
available to take the photo;
e. Writes the system generated account number on the application, deposit slip, and cheque
requisition form as appropriate;
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f. Explains/ sells to the customer about card banking, mobile banking and online banking
services as appropriate;
g. Subscribes the customer for SMS alert privilege is mandatory by checking the validity of
the telephone number filled by the customer as appropriate/link customers email address in
to the banks system so as to send monthly bank statement;
h. Collects FCY cash as initial deposit(as per NBE directive) or acceptable FCY cheque to be
deposited, post the transaction and give deal slip;
i. Forwards the bank details and CBE correspondent banks to the customer for further deposit
in to the account;
j. Makes the customer fill/complete cheque requisition form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF003)
and forwards to Senior Banking Business Officer for cheque preparation;
k. Scans the application form, terms and conditions, authenticated documents on the core
banking system and forwards documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller
OR scan all documents on EDRMS and gives back the original application form to the
customer as appropriate;
l. Hands over all vouchers to Senior Banking Business Officer; and
m. Balances her/his cash at half day and end of the cash hour and hands it over to the Senior
Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash.
g. Ensures various digital channels (like card banking, online banking service) are appropriately
sold to the customer; and
h. Forwards account and bank details to Manager Branch Business for subsequent notification
to the customer.
a. Collects individual account opening documents from Ethiopian Embassies and/or Ministry of
foreign affairs, Financial Institutions Relationship and FCY Resource Mobilization unit,
verifies its eligibility and forward it to Banking Business Officer to open the account;
b. Notifies the customer/document sending organ about the account and bank details (account
No, correspondent banks and SWIFT address) and how to make deposit in to the account;
c. Forwards fixed time deposit certificate to the customer through courier, or keep under his/he
custody until customers presence/identification of physical address; and
d. Corresponds with customer/document sending organ, for fulfillment of missing documents if
any.
The steps to customer ID creation, account opening process and duties and responsibilities for
a performer is same as conventional banking based on eligibility criteria and required documents
(Refer annex 1) and as per the IFB relevant procedure.
a. Ensures that all documents presented for account opening are authenticated except for:
i. Saving account opened for teen-youth.
ii. Customers request to open additional account and if the required documents is
already authenticated.
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iii. Accounts opened for employees of corporate customers for salary or provident fund
account based on employer written request;
iv. Mortgage, pension and Army accounts; and
v. Any other accounts opened as per the arrangement between the Bank and the
institution.
b. Ensures document authentication for new accounts are done within 15 days;
c. Ensures that document authentication requests other than same city branches for which the
branch is delegated to handle are done properly;
d. Authorizes any document authentication fee/cost of the branch or other branches (incase the
branch authenticates other branches document) such costs are not claim from requesting
branch;
e. Assigns Banking Operation Officer to print documents from the scanned customer record
or copy from the mandate file, prepare cover letter, and authenticate the documents from the
issuing organ within 15 days;
f. Changes accounts status from unauthenticated account to authenticated account status for
those whose documents are authenticated by the issuing organ.
e. Forwards the document to Manager Branch Operation for posting restriction on account
and reporting to nearby police station if the document is found to be counterfeit; and
f. Collects authenticated documents from issuing organs and forward to Banking Business
Officer for scanning;
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c. Checks all required documents are attached to the opening form OR scanned to the
EDRMS as the case may be;
d. Checks new opened accounts’ documents are authenticated within the stated period by
the assigned Banking Operation Officer;
e. Attaches the authenticated documents to the customer opening application form and
keeps under his/her custody where EDRMS system is not implemented
f. Discard authenticated and scanned documents in the branch where EDRMS implemented
within five days in the presence of Manager Branch Operation , Manager Branch
Business and Manager Branch Control by minuting the events;
g. Identifies and reports discrepancies ,if any ,found in the opening process to Manager
Branch Control on daily basis; and
h. Follows-up documents of new accounts that remain unauthenticated for over 15 days
after the date of opening and report to Manager Branch Control.
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d. Checks whether the customer already has an account that suits the type of card as per the
eligibility criteria;
e. Enters account number on ‘Payment Card Registration’ Menu at Core Banking System and
retrieve applicant’s information regardless of where the base branch is;
f. Verifies applicant’s signature on the application against the information on the system;
g. Forwards card application form to Senior Banking Business Officer;
h. Scans the application form and terms and conditions in the case of EDRMS system; and
i. Advise the customer to collect payment card when she/he receives SMS message or
telephone call.
Branch Manager
a. Assigns Senior Banking Business Officer to handle PIN delivery to the customer.
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a. Receives and keeps PINs in safe custody and contacts customers to collect cards immediately
after receiving from Customer Service Manager-Service;
b. Delivers PINs to customers against signature on PIN delivery register book;
c. Authorizes card-account associated on the core banking system and validating immediately
after PIN delivery to the customer; and
d. Guides the customer practically how to use the card on the ATM and POS and enhance the
activation process in collaboration with Customer Service Officers.
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b. Assists the customer to fill the card and fund loading application form (Refer Form No.
CBEBBF005) after explaining the types and value of prepaid card;
c. Checks for presentation of required documents as per the requirement and the NBE
directives, especially for international prepaid card;
d. Collects cash from the customer or debits the customer account. If the card is
international prepaid card, he/she shall collect foreign currency in USD/GBP/Euro OR
transfers from the customer’s FCY account into the pool account;
e. Informs the customer to check the account balance and forwards all pertinent documents
to Customer Service Manager-Service to forward the request to Manager Card
Management;
a. Explains about the features and benefits of pre-paid cards to the customers;
b. Sales pre-paid cards using sales form to the customer and guides the customer in
completing the form;
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c. Collects cash or debit customer’s account for sum equivalent amount of the value of the
card; and
d. Forwards pre-paid card sales form and deposit advice to Customer Service Manager-
Service.
a. Receives and checks pre-paid cards PINs in sealed envelope from the Customer
Service Manager –Service and keeps under his/her custody;
b. Checks on the pre-paid card sales form that the pre-paid card and PIN matches ;
c. Verifies and delivers PINs to the customer against signing on pre-paid cards
and PINs register book;
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a. Explains the feature and benefit of internet banking service to the customer;
b. Recruits potential individuals/organizations for personal and Corporate IB services
respectively;
c. Receives official letter of request for corporate IB service stating the authorizer, in-putter and
administrator;
d. Registers the customer record on the system or amend the customer record if it is existing;
e. Makes the customer sign on the application forms and Internet banking terms and
conditions.(Refer Form No.CBEBBF005) and (Refer Terms & Conditions
No.CBEBBTC002);
f. Identifies the customer and verifies the signature on the application form against the
signature on the system;
g. Scans the application, attaches to the customer record on the EDRMS system and give back
original to customer;
h. Register on T-24 system, proxy service arrangement and user arrangement ID for corporate
IB users and proxy arrangement and user ID for personal IB users.
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e. Collects and confirms number of hard token for new or replacement from Card
Management Team and keeps in a safe custody until issuance to the customers/users;
f. Delivers the pocket Token and user Guide to the customer/users against signature on the
register book.
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b. Collects all the necessary documents as per the eligibility and forwards to Banking
Business Officer for transaction processing; and
c. Assists the agent to activate the account and makes proper follow up to increase
transactions.
Banking Business Officer
a. Identifies potential Merchants to CBE birr and explain about the service;
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b. Collects all the necessary documents as per the eligibility criterion and forwards to
Banking Business Officer for transaction processing; and
c. Assists the merchant to activate the account and makes proper follow up to increase
transactions.
a. Receives the POS application and relevant documents from the Customer Service Officer;
b. Opens an account using the name of the merchant as per the account opening procedure if the
merchant doesn’t have an account for his business using his/her trade license;
c. Scans the application form and agreement on the EDRMS and gives the original application
and agreements to the customer OR attaches relevant documents and agreement to the POS
application form and forwards to Manager Branch Business.
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g. Delivers POS to merchant after signing the delivery form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF010)
and forward documents to Senior Branch Controller/Branch Controller.
Branch Manager
a. Receives and reviews the list of candidate potential merchants from the Manager Branch
Business and forwards the list to district Resource Mobilization Manager for approval; and
b. Requests the Administration and Logistics Manager for the POS machine and terminal ID
after approved by District Resource Mobilization Manager;
a. Confirms taking over of the POS on the oracle system and updates the fixed asset list of the
branch.
a. Checks all digital banking channel’s registration application (Card and POS, on-line
banking, CBE Birr…) to ensure accuracy of details and fulfillment of required
documents on scanned documents on EDRMS system OR physical document
within the same date;
b. Ensures delivery of the original application form to the customer after scanning
where EDRMS is implemented;
c. Keeps custody of digital banking channels application forms and other relevant
documents under his/her custody where the EDRMS system is not implemented;
d. Checks the balance of PINs and Cards and reports any discrepancy on her/his
regular stock management report to the Manager Branch Control; and
e. Identifies and reports discrepancies, if any, found in the selling of digital banking channels to
the Manager Branch control on a daily basis.
c. Provides Muday service agreement for customers and help them to understand and sign on
the contract/agreement (Refer Agreement No. CBEBBA004).
a. Receives the application and the agreement from the Banking Business Officer;
b. Checks and approves the account creation on the system and verifies the agreement;
c. Keeps custody of boxes by receiving from Manager Branch Operation and hands over to
customer by making her/him sign on the register book; retains the duplicate key with
her/him;
d. Hands over one key to Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash who is
responsible to open box when customers make deposit and;
e. Reviews monthly customer’s account performance and ensures the customer make deposits
as per the agreement.
Manager Branch Operation;
a. Ensures the existence of optimum stock of Muday box and that boxes are properly
registered; and
b. Hands over one key to Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash and gives the
reserve to Senior Banking Business Officer after labeling and registering on the stock
register book.
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made for the reason stated on the safe deposit box agreement;
k. Facilitates and issues visiting format to be completed by the customer and verifies the
customer against his signature and details;
l. Checks whether the customer has the appropriate key to open the safe deposit box;
m. Escorts the customer to the safe deposit box and leave her/him for an average of 15
minutes to let him/her deposit/withdraw the items;
n. Sets a standing instruction in the system for collecting safe box rent annually; and
o. Follows-up monthly unexecuted standing instructions due to insufficient fund in
connection with safe deposit box rent and informs Manager Branch Operation to take
action as per the contract agreement.
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b. Makes the customer open an account in the CBE as per the bank’s procedure, if the customer
does not have an account in any CBE branches; if the customer is not willing to open an
account the Banking Business Officer creates the customer as prospect and proceeds with
the passport registration;
c. Insert /capture all relevant information of the customers such as type of passport, priority and
address on EDRMS Passport registration menu;
d. Captures photo and signature of the customer using digital camera and signature pad, if
available;
e. Scans all document such as ID, Payment receipts and other relevant documents to the
system and make them ready to send to immigration office via system;
f. Debit newly opened/ existing customer’s account or collects cash from the customer and
credit immigrations office account;
g. Print customers advice /service request payment receipts, with attached “Barcode” that is
collected from the immigration office; and
h. Communicate the customer shall collect the passport from the immigration office.
a. Checks that all the information inserted on the system is complete and correct;
b. Checks the picture taken and inserted on the system is clear and visible;
c. Authorize the passport registration and ensures the data captured is transferred to
immigration office;
d. Checks appointment date to receive the passport is given by Banking Business Officer and;
e. Sends passport request customer’s registration information to immigration office and the
bank as required.
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a. Establishes a CRM strategy for FCY customers that define a way to attract new customer and
to maintain relationships with existing customers;
b. Develops the strategy and forward to Manager Branch Business for review and approval;
and
c. Participates in the implementation of CRM strategy that includes planning, implementation
of all business communication techniques, and control activities which are necessary for
achievement of defined objectives of building and improving relationships with customers.
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c. Differentiates customer based on the volume and value of transaction for better relationship
and forward the list with detail customer information to Manager Branch Business for
review;
d. Maintain separate record for corporate customers such as, Embassies, NGOs, International
Organizations, FDIs, frequent recipients of FCY transfers, etc…;
e. Makes customers and accounts analysis and identifies the causes of under-performance to
meet the intended targets on individual and collective basis; and
f. Make an assessment on the day today activities on service delivery of the special branch;
a. Reviews the customer profile and regularly checks the data is updated on time;
b. Reviews list of differentiated customer based on the requirement developed on the CRM
strategy; and
c. Forwards summary of the key FCY customer profile to the Branch Manager for follow up
and strategy formulation.
2.11.3 Customization of Product and Services
Customer Relationship Officer
a. Identifies specific customer needs and requirement using interview, questionnaire and e-
mail to customize product and services;
b. Proposes range of products and services to selected customers by looking at competitors
activities to retain existing and attract potential customers and forwards the proposal to
Manager Branch Business for review; and
c. Arranges in consultation with the business team of the branch to have a dedicated
window/area to give service for differentiated customers.
Manager Branch Business
a. Reviews the proposal for range of products to be offered to high value FCY customers and
improving product and service features based on the requirements of the customers; and
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b. Forwards the proposal to the Branch Manager for approval or initiate product/service
feature improvement.
2.11.4 Customer Interaction and Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Officer
a. Serves as a contact person for customers for banking service and information requests;
b. Makes regular contact and discussion with customers that live abroad through e-mail and
telephone to maximize their FCY savings and create awareness about CBE products and
services;
c. Strengthen the relationship with MoFA, Ethiopian Embassies, Ministry of Labor and Social
Affairs, Ethiopian Investment agencies, etc… as they are crucial for FCY resource
mobilization;
d. Attends customers’ complaint and identifies the root causes and propose solutions;
e. Collects all customer’s requirements on the service delivery of the branch and find a solution
in collaboration with Manager Branch Business;
f. Checks that all customer service requirements are met, sales of products and services are
facilitated; and customers are satisfied;
g. Plan and engage in regular visit to corporate customers of the branch to identify their needs
and maintain their specific contact address; and
h. Identifies corporate FCY customers and proposes plan for a joint meeting with the branch
management to further strengthen the relationship;
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CHAPTER THREE
COLLECTION
3.1. Collection through Conventional Channels
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d. Ensures that the name and the account number on deposit vouchers are similar with the
system;
e. Inserts details and precise information of the depositor on the system, if the amount is greater
than the amount set by Ethiopian Financial Intelligence Center;
f. Credits to customer’s account by inserting the depositor’s full name in narrative box;
g. Forwards the deposit voucher for authorization immediately when the transaction is above
his/her authorization limit, and updates the passbook balance, if any;
h. Hands over computer generated advice (deal slip) to the customer, additional deposit advice
may be given if the customer requests marked as “ duplicate “ or “Copy”;
i. Keeps deposit voucher for further balancing and documentation and hands over deposit
voucher to Senior Banking Business Officer for checking and authorization, as soon as
transaction is completed;
j. Balances the cash against the pertinent data on the system and hands over to Senior Banking
Operation Officer assigned at cash beyond his/her holding limit during half and end of
day’s operation; and
k. Hands over the whole FCY cash at half-day and end of day closing to the Senior Banking
Operation Officer assigned at cash.
a. Receives travel documents (passport and air ticket) and verifies the signature on the letter of
application;
b. Posts the entry and collects the local currency equivalent in cash or debits from the
customer’s account;
c. Pays the balance in foreign-currency notes or issue foreign draft or transfer through SWIFT
to the customer as the case may be;
d. Writes the permit-reference number generated by the system on letter of the application;
e. Surrenders foreign and local-currency notes to the Senior Banking Operation Officer
assigned at cash after balancing the day’s cash transaction; and
f. Hands over the application and tickets to the Senior Banking Business Officer for
authorization with their authorization limit.
a. Receives the travel documents and the application form from Banking Business Officer and
checks that the request is approved by Manager Branch Business Customer Service
Manager – Sales;
b. Writes the amount sold and air ticket number on the passport and put the banks stamp; and
c. Authorizes the transaction and hands over the pertinent documents to Senior Branch
Controller/ Branch Controller for checking and documentation.
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a. Receives and identifies types of foreign-currency notes and ensures that it is genuine using
detecting machines/markers;
b. Posts the currency, the amount, name of the customer and phone number on the system;
c. Prints a deal slip in two copies and ensures the customer signs on deal slip;
d. Writes down the FCY note serial number on the generated deal slip if the purchased FCY
denomination is 50 and above;
e. Pays to the customer equivalent birr and give one copy to the customer as a receipt and
forward the deal slip to Senior Banking Business Officer for authorization; and
f. Surrenders the foreign-currency notes to Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at
cash after balancing the day’s cash transaction.
a. Receives money transfer application form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF013) from individual
customers OR Letter of fund transfer/payment instruction form (Refer Form No.
CBEBBF012) from the Customer Service Manager-Service;
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symposium, workshop, conference, membership fee, medical fee and others, approves the
request and forward to the Banking business Officer; and
d. Signs on the foreign draft and forward to Customer Service Manager-Service for co-
singing.
e. Forwards the foreign transfer application/ instruction letter and other relevant documents (if
any) to Banking Business Officer to process the request.
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a. Collects the cheque/ Bankers’ Cheque from the depositor and checks the proper presentation,
authenticity and completeness of the cheque/ Bankers’ Cheque;
b. Verifies the signature, checks the endorsement and posts both debit/credit transactions on the
system;
c. Request NBE letter of approval for embassies and International Organization to deposit
Cheques issued on LCY accounts to FCY accounts;
d. Affixes his/her crossing stamp on the face of the cheque / bankers’ cheque;
e. Posts the transaction and forwards for authorization to Senior Banking Business Officer if
the transaction amount is above her/his limit; and
f. Prints the deal slip, puts his/her stamp, signs on it and delivers to the customer.
Other bank cheques or bankers’ cheques can be accepted for deposit on collection basis on any
online CBE branches where the NBE cheque clearing system is implemented and the accepting
branch shall process through cheque clearance system.
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Operation Officer for those cheques/Bankers’ cheques that are ready to be sent for
clearance;
c. Exports the image from scanner interface system/cheque truncation system to core banking
system of the bank; and
d. Authorizes the cheques/bankers’ cheque and forward to Banking Operation Officer for
dispatch.
ii. Branches that don’t have a scanner compatible with EATS system.
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Collection of other bank cheque/ banker’s cheque shall be entertained in any CBE branch where
the NBE cheque clearing system is implemented and the accepting branch shall process through
the cheque clearance system and the amount of cheque entertain through special clearance is
determine by NBE directives.
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c. Assists the customer to endorse the cheque by affixing thereto her/his signature;
d. Passes the cheque on to the Banking Operation Officer, together with the deposit voucher,
for the preparation of the OBC foreign; and
e. Signs on the OBC ticket and forwards it to the Banking Operation Officer for co-signing.
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a. Receives cash along with bank deposit slip signed by the depositor and other supplementary
customer documents to be collected as prescribed by high valued customer agreed and with
the bank;
b. Verifies the cash received and the denominations agree with amount in words and figures
written on the deposit voucher;
c. Credits the customer’s account by inserting the name of the depositor and other reference
prescribed by high valued customer within her/his discretionary limit;
d. Collects service charge as per the bank’s terms and tariff;
e. Prints deal slip and provide a receipt to the depositors/client’s customer affixing his/her
stamp as an acknowledgement of cash receipt and credit advice to the client as a bank
deposit; and
f. Keeps deposit voucher for further balancing and reference.
c. Ensures no cash shall left in the safe cash box of the Banking Business Officer; and
d. Balances the cash and hands over the cash at the end of the day to the Senior Banking
Operation Officer assigned at cash after returns back to the branch.
a. Counts and receives cash from Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at client site
after balancing; and
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i. Hands over the deal slip/advice to passenger/client’s customer after putting thereon stamp
and her/his initials; and
j. Forwards CBE and other bank cheque/ letter of instruction to roving Senior Banking
Operation Officer assigned at client site after balancing them.
a. Requests the customer to present Passenger Name Record (PNR) which is provided by
ET Contact Center or receive from mobile SMS;
b. Inserts the PNR on the PNR enquiry menu and checks the amount, name of passenger
and other details;
c. Collects and verifies the cash amount against the system;
d. Posts the transaction either in cash or debiting customer account as per the transaction
authorization limit and inserts mandatory information on the system;
e. Prints and hand over the deals slip to the customer by putting his/her stamp and initial.
a. Monitors the branch’s POS and ATM machines regular functionality placed at merchant sites
in relation to collection and resource mobilization;
b. Assists the merchant’s cashiers in operating the machine while the customers are using their
cards on POS;
c. Provides regularly broachers, user guideline, stickers and location identifiers by requesting
Manager Branch Operation; and
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d. Compiles visit reports and escalates problems on POS and ATM machines to Manager
Branch Business for immediate solution.
b. Gives user guideline to the customers on how to operate the service independently; and
c. Refers customers to reset their password to Senior Banking Business Officer at branch
premises OR guides them to contact customer contact center using 951.
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f. Posts e-money deposit by debiting Branch CBE Birr settlement account /agent conventional
account / cash deposit at T24 system; and
g. Forwards the transaction for authorization along with the receipt to Senior Banking
Business Officer above his/her authorization limit.
a. Check and approves creation of e-money after verifying the transaction amount within
her/his authorization limit; and
b. Forwards the source document to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for
documentation.
The integrated electronic payment system allows tax payers to pay their declared tax through
conventional and alternative channels.
a. Checks the instruction documents and the system are properly filled;
b. Check and authorizes the transaction immediately;
c. Views the tax paid transactions and checks the NBE status and contacts Conventional
Payment at Head Office; and
d. Forwards the documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for checking
and documentation.
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a. Receive all the source documents from the performers for all transactions completed in a
specific business day as soon as the transaction completed;
b. Check the correctness and the completeness of the all collection documents and posting
transactions in the system on same date;
c. Ensure that all the received number of tickets are agree with the number of transactions
processed on the system;
d. Confirms that all received tickets are agree with the system in number and amount by signing
on daily cash sheet of each performer;
e. Check self reversed and deleted transaction made by performers by extracting the log report
from NG screener;
f. Identify and reports discrepancies ,if any ,found in the collection process to Manager
Branch Control daily; and
g. Keep custody of documents related to collection process where EDRMS system is not
implemented.
CHAPTER FOUR
PAYMENT SERVICES
4.1. Payment through Conventional Channels
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This account shall be debited either to recover cash shortage while performing daily transaction
as evidenced by Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash/Manager Branch
Control report, or one year after the staff is transferred into another post or terminated
employment contract.
Banking Business Officer
a. Receives letter of request from the staff and checks that the payment approved by Manager
Branch Business;
b. Posts the transaction and affixes stamp on the face of the letter of request and put his/her
initials;
c. Pays specified amount of money on letter of request to the concerned staff by recording
denominations into the system and on the letter of request after the transaction is authorized;
and
d. Passes the letter of request to the Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller
immediately for checking and documentation after the transaction has been completed.
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i. Pays the specified amount of money on the cheque to the payee after transaction is
authorized; and
j. Balances the cash on hand against the system and hands over the cheque to the Senior
Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for checking and documentation.
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appropriate customer’s account; using appropriate menu on the system, Affixes the stamp
and puts her or his initials;
f. Inserts detail and precise information of the payee as per the requirement of Ethiopian
Financial Intelligence Center;
g. Forwards the documents for authorization and pre checking to Senior Banking Business
Officer and Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller respectively as per the
authorization and checking limit;
h. Pays the specified amount of money in FCY or birr to the payee by the denominations
depending on the customer’s preference after transaction authorized; However approval is
required as per relevant NBE directive to pay cash in FCY; and
i. Balances the cash on hand against the system and hands over the cheque/Withdrawal
form/payment Instruction letter to the Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for
checking and documentation.
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c. Forwards the request to the Banking Business Officer for transaction processing.
Saving/current accounts that have no movement for a period of twelve/six consecutive months
shall be changed by the system to “inactive accounts,” regardless of their balances respectively.
Inactive current accounts having less than the required minimum balance are subjected to service
charges as per the bank’s term and tariffs semi-annually. Accordingly the payment of such
accounts shall be effected as per the payment limit stated under section 5.1 of this procedure by
taking the following steps.
a. Receives the passbook along with the withdrawal voucher/the cheque from the customer,
checks if the account is inactive and refer the customer to Manager/Manager Branch
Business or Senior Banking Business Officer as the case may be;
b. Checks the cheque validity and the cheque payment is approved by Branch
Manager/Manager Branch Business stating the word “Ok for being inactive” and “ Ok
for Payment” on the cheque;
c. Checks the withdrawal form is properly filled and the payment from saving account is
approved by Senior Banking Business Officer stating the word “Ok for being inactive”
on the withdrawal voucher;
d. Checks the payment is pre checked by Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller as
per transaction checking and authorization limit;
e. Requests the customer to present a renewed ID, retain the photo copy, and identifies the
customer at the back of the withdrawal voucher/cheque;
f. Posts the transaction, puts his/her stamp at the face of the withdrawal voucher/cheque and
pays the amount to the customer.
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Payment requests from pending for authentication saving accounts shall be entertained in all
online branches as per the limit set on transaction limit. However payment request on pending
for authentication saving accounts above the limit set under section 5.1 and any payment
request on pending for authentication current accounts shall be entertained only in the base
branch based on the following steps:
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f. Requests two witnesses one from the bank and the other from customer side for blind
customers or who uses thumb print as a signature. If the customer is unable to present a
witness from her/his side the Banking Business Officer/Senior Banking Business Officer,
other than the transaction processing officer, will become a witness for the customer side;
g. Effects payment to the beneficiary/payee after authorization as per the authorization limit.
Otherwise, the transaction should be directed to the Senior Banking Business Officer for
authorization.
d. Inserts the customer’s ID number, the name of issuing organ or office, issue date, expire date,
telephone number into the system. Generates the ticket from the system and makes the
customer signs on it (the ticket);
e. Effects payment or credit to the beneficiary/payee account after authorization as per the
authorization limit; and
f. Advises the customer to fill new remittance outgoing transfer if the error was made by
customer collect the relevant charges as per the terms and tariffs and if the error is made by
the branch staff, wave the service charge.
When the remitter lost the LMTS Security number, she/he should report the case to the
originating branch to reissue security numbers and can request payment by following the same
step as indicated on payment from LMTS or resends it again.
Branch Manager
a. Checks the letter of application form has the required information;
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b. Finds the transaction reference number and the remitter name from the ‘outstanding LMTS
payable list’;
c. Search the lost secret number using “lost secret number” menu on the system;
d. Delivers the security number to the customer by ensuring the customer confirmation for
collecting the security number against signature on the application.
a. Ensures that the request is made by individual account holder customers or his/her legal
agent who have a power to operate the account only;
b. Delivers to fill the account to account format (Refer Form No. CBEBBF012) designed for
this purpose to individual customer account holder;
c. Identifies customer and verifies the signature and posts the transaction as per the request and
forwards to the Senior Banking Business Officer for approval; and
d. Delivers the debit/credit advice to the customer.
a. Ensures that the request is made by individual account holder customers or his/her legal
agent who have a power to operate the account only;
b. Checks the request after ensuring the signature verification was made;
c. Authorize the transaction and hands over the format to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch
Controller for checking and documentation.
a. Receives the instruction from the individual customer to transfer the fund from her/his
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d. Checks that the cheque is crossed by transverse line across the face of the cheque and written
by the word “ Payable in account” or restrict the transferability of the cheque by the word
“Payee only”;
e. Ensures that the drawer affixes the stamp at the back of the cheque for corporate entities;
f. Verifies the signature on the cheque and post on the appropriate customer’s account;
g. Forwards the documents to the Senior Banking Business Officer for authorization; and
h. Delivers the credit advice for the customer.
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and documentation.
ii. Payment through Letter of Payment Instruction
c. Verifies the signature of the account holder/authorized signatory that appears on the
payment instruction;
d. Posts the transaction on the system by specifying the reference number and other
description for letter of payment instructions/transfer form if the limit is within her/his
discretionary limit.
e. Affixes the stamp “posted” or write the word “posted’ and make initial on the letter of
payment instruction/ transfer form and print the deal slip (Debit and credit advice) and
hands over to the customer; and
f. Forwards the payment instructions to Senior Banking Business Officer for dual
authorization.
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a. Receives the application form filled by the customer’s (use the standard format designed for
specific MTO or use (Refer Form No. CBEBBF020) and the ID from the customer;
b. Logs in to the MTO’s application and search the record using the Security Number, checks
that the beneficiaries’ name, Remitter name, Test question and answer(if any) are agreed
with the system and the application form;
c. Forwards the customer application to Senior Banking Business Officer for MTO’s not
directly accessed by the branch;
d. Inserts the customer’s address, ID number, the name of issuing organization or office and the
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date issued in to the system. Generates the ticket from the system and makes the customer
signs on it;
e. Explains the beneficiary about variety of saving products to open an account if the customer
has no prior account or aware to save at time of payment to enhance deposit mobilization
process;
f. Takes the blind customer thumb print in the presence of two witnesses; one from the bank
officers and the other from the customer side. If the customer is unable to present a witness
from his/her side, the Senior Banking Business Officer shall sign as a witness and affixing
thereto a rubber stamp that reads “Signed before me;”
g. Effects payment to the beneficiary/payee by debiting the appropriate account on T24
application after authorization; and
h. Hands over the documents to Senior Banking Business Officer for authorization.
a. Receives the customer ID the foreign remittance application, the print out and ensures that
the transaction is correct;
b. Checks , authorizes and co-signs on the cash-payment ticket within her/his authorization
limit;
c. Ensures that necessary efforts have been made by Banking Business Officer while making
payment to the beneficiary that she/he has been aware to open an account or to make a
deposit from the payment proceeds;
d. Collects the customer application form from the Banking Business Officer and
communicates International Banking Service District Support for MTOs not directly
accessed by the branch; and
e. Hands over the documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for checking
and documentation.
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e. Pays the customer in cash or credit to his/her account. In case of corporate customer
/organization, the proceeds of the Bankers’ cheque shall be credited to the account.
4.1.5.3 Payment of CBE Cheque /Banker’s cheque Collected by Other Banks (through
EATS)
Banking Operation Officer Assigned at Reconciliation
a. Receives the cheques/Bankers’ cheques dispatched from ATS team after checking against the
summary report;
b. Balances the received cheques against the summary total and forwards to Banking
Operation Officer for acceptance or rejection of the transaction on the system; and
c. Signs on the cheque returned slip, specify the valid reason, and return the physical cheque to
EATS before elapses the standard time and kept relevant information for further reference.
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a. Receives the card and the ID card to ensure the presenter is proper card holder;
b. Inserts/swipes the card to the POS chip slot/reader slot; keep the card until completion of
entire transaction;
c. Requests the customer to enter PIN (personal Identification Numbers) for validation, if POS
Terminals request PIN;
d. Prints the transaction receipts in two copies, one for the customer advice and the other for
branch source document;
e. Requests the customer to sign on the receipt produced by the POS Terminal;
f. Identifies the CBE card holder customer by verifying the signature against the customer’s
account on the system;
g. Identifies the international card holder customer by verifying the signature against signature
signed previously at back of the card;
h. Retains single copies of the signed receipts as source documents for cash payments;
i. Attaches the copy of cardholders’ passport/ID for all international cards;
j. Forwards the receipt to the customer as evidence of the transaction and pays cash;
k. Prints the daily summaries and the detail reports (for international transactions) using POS
Terminals;
l. Balances the cash advance receipts total with daily summaries and detail reports; and
m. Sends the batch and settle daily transactions.
a. Educates the customer to monitor his/her account online and to review monthly statement on
a regular basis when issuing debit card;
b. Informs the customer to report any suspicious or unauthorized transactions activity when
discovered; and
c. Aware the customer to immediately checking of e-mail/SMS alerts sent in relation to
payment transaction from his/her account.
a. Checks the completeness of the payment receipt and authorizes the transaction; and
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b. Forwards the source documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for
checking and documentation.
a. Checks the completeness of the payment receipt and authorized the transaction; and
b. Forwards the documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for checking and
documentation.
completed;
b. Checks the correctness and the completeness of the payment documents and posting
transactions in the system;
c. Ensures that all the received number of tickets are agreed with the number of transactions
processed on the system;
d. Confirms that all received tickets are agree with the system in number and amount by signing
on daily cash sheet of each performer;
e. Files and keep the documents for further reference under her/his custody where EDRMS
system is not implemented.
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Note on Collection and Payment transaction authorization limit on deposit products (5. 1)
a. NA – means ,Not Applicable, that is no authorization limit is given to the performer under self or
dual authorizations ;
b. No Limit- means ,without limit, that is authorization can go up to the authorizers KYC level
without limit ;
c. When cash deposits are made to pending for authentication accounts and inactive current accounts
other than base branch, the transaction authorization limit for such accounts will be treated as to
Active accounts cash collection transaction.
d. Limit sets for saving and current account when branch become offline refer only for withdrawal.
For cash deposit the branch accepts without limit.
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International All travelers USD 400 Up to card limit USD 400 Up to card
Classic card limit
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S.N Service type Customer level 2/3 Customer level 1 Customer level 0
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Level one
a. CBE branch (Top Agent) shall not have an initial deposit amount and its float account
shall not possess a limit
b. Company/ organization (Top Agent) shall have an initial agent deposit amount of 50,000
birr per outlet: along with 10,000 birr of soft limit and 2000 birr of hard limit per outlet in
its float account.
Level two
a. Individuals/sole partnership (Sole Agent) shall have 25,000 birr of agent initial deposit
amount, a soft limit of 5000 birr and a hard limit of 2000 birr in its float account
Level three
a. Individuals/sole partnership (Agent) shall have 10,000 birr of agent initial deposit, a soft
limit of 4000 and a hard limit of 1000 in its float account.
Minimum Maximum
Deposit Deposit
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Note: In CBE birr agent services the minimum limit for Pay bill service is 5 birr and maximum
is 10,000 birr where as for other services like business deposit, transfers and withdrawal
and salary payment default transaction amount is up to account balance.
A. Products
3 Time Deposit &Contracts Contractual document Post checking Daily MBC/SBC/BC T24
All transaction
amount should be
Post-checking
Transaction
Saving Pre-checking > or Daily MBC/SBC/BC T24/NG
equal to 50,000
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5 All transaction
amount should be
Post-checking
B. Services
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C. Channels
D. Others
2 Cash Cash in Vault, ATM, Cash surprise checking Monthly/ MBC/SBC/ T24
Box and Petty cash surprise BC
check as
needed
Note
a. All financial and non financial transaction made by branch should be checked by internal
control team on within 20 minutes without any fail.
b. Limit for pre-checking transactions for saving and current accounts includes only cash
withdrawal and fund transfer transactions.
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c. Pre-checking/auditing is introduced for all transaction except cash collection based on the
following condition:
Before authorization of fund transfer transactions but after all KYC and
conformation is done by SBBO/MBB;
After positing and authorization of cash payment transactions, but before cash
payment effected
The Senior Branch Controller /Branch Controller in relation to transaction checking shall
perform the following:
a. Performs all transaction/document checking on products and services within the same
business date; and
b. Reports the findings while checking transactions and documents to Manager Branch Control
as the case may be for immediate rectification.
a. Withdrawals of money from customers’ accounts as per the customers’ standing instruction ;
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BOOK MANAGEMENT
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6.1.2.6.3 Forex ATM Machine captures currency notes, but doesn’t dispense cash
Banking Operation Officer assigned at Reconciliation
a. Investigates the specific transactions (exception transactions) to identify whether the cash
account is affected or not;
b. Reviews the financial, activity and EJ report for the specific transaction;
c. Receives letter of application from the claimant about currency type, denomination of notes,
amount, transaction date and time;
d. Identifies the customer and makes adjustment either crediting the customer account, make
payment by local currency or return the foreign currency notes as the case with the Manager
Branch Operation and Senior Banking Operation Officer Assigned at Cash;
e. Prepares adjustment tickets and forwards to Banking Operation Officer to credit account
or Banking Business Officer to pay the cash; and
f. Keeps the reconciliation documents under his/her custody for further reference.
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a. Checks and monitors the minimum balance on agent account periodically and if it is found
below the threshold communicates the agent to deposit the minimum balance;
Banking Operation Officer assigned at Reconciliation
a. Checks the balance on CBE Birr Settlement account at the beginning of every day and make
sure the balance is zero; and
b. Verifies CBE Birr Settlement account balance and prepares adjustment tickets to the
Manager Branch Operation for approval.
Banking Operation Officer
a. Follows same procedure under 6.1.2.1(a to b).
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The Manager Branch Control shall perform the following in relation to checking of documents in
book management process:
a. Checks the Balance of suspense accounts in GL against tracer balance on the system and
suspense accounts status report prepared by Banking Operation officer assigned at
Reconciliation;
b. Pre checks all adjustment entries;
c. Identifies and reports differences between the GL position and tracer balance and long
outstanding item to District Internal Control and copy to Branch Manager for timely
rectification daily; and
d. Files the source documents under his/her custody where EDRMS is not implemented.
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CUSTOMER PROFILE MANAGEMENT
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An account holder/a customer may request for changing signature for one following two reasons;
of the
a. When there is a difference in her/his signature from that of the one she/he had signed at the
time of opening an account and feels that she/he can no longer reproduce/remember it; and
b. When an illiterate account holder becomes literate and, therefore, desires to replace her/his
thumb print with a written signature.
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her/his signature and refer to the Banking Business officer for processing;
b. Checks the application form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF027) for a change of signature
against the customer’s ID card and her/his old and new signatures, if the customer unable to
sign old signature, he/she shall write undertaking letter;
c. Ensures the new signature and the relevant documents are scanned and linked with the
account by Banking Business Officer; and
d. Cancel old signature, checks and authorizes the change of signature.
Banking Business Officer
a. Receives the request and advice the customer to fill out the application form for a change of
signature by putting her/his new and old specimens;
b. Identifies the customer using information on the system and ID card on the application form;
c. Collects service charge as per the terms and tariffs of the bank;
d. Scans the new signature and forwards the application along with relevant documents to
Manager-Branch Business for authorization; and
e. Receives the authorized application form from Manager – Branch Business and forwards to
Senior Branch Controller/Branch Controller for checking and documentation.
Status changes from Inactive to active account for both saving and current account shall be
done only at base branch with the following steps:
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The self-registered customer can be upgraded to the next level to access all CBE Birr services.
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b. Ensures that the account requested for additional/secondary card issuance belongs to the
principal customer;
c. Verifies the signature on application form and posts the necessary applicants’ information
under payment card registration menu on the system;
d. Notifies the applicant to collect card and PIN as per Service Delivery Time; and
e. Scans and forwards the application form through EDRMS to Senior Banking Business
Officer for approval.
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a. Receives and checks the additional account association request application form from
Banking Business Officer through EDRMS;
b. Associates and authorizes the requested additional account to the existing card; and
c. Forwards the customer application form to Card Management unit through the bank
internal outlook and the original application form to Senior Branch Controller/Branch
Controller for checking and documentation.
a. Receives and checks the PIN change request application form from Banking Business
Officer;
b. Verifies and send the customer pin change request application forms or the branch
request for wrong encoding and unreadable PIN to Manager Card management with
covering letter through bank internal outlook.
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7.9.4 Card Replacement for Damaged Domestic Pre-paid Cards (Wallet and Co-
Branded)
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a. Advices the customer to fill the change application form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF027);
b. Identifies and verifies the customer’s signature on account change application form;
c. Scans and forwards the application form through EDRMS to Senior Banking Business
Officer for approval;
a. Advices the customer to fill the application form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF001) for the
customer ID merging ;
b. Scans the filled application form and forwards to Senior Banking Business Officer
for ID Merging;
c. Adds account/s on Mobile List menu at T-24, after the ID merging process is
completed.
Senior Banking Business Officer
a. Performs the same activity stated above from a-d; and
b. Requests the base branch, if the additional account is opened with different customer ID
in different branches, to amend the customer ID.
Any existing customers having an additional account maintained at T-24 system under same
customer ID can be linked and accessed through internet banking service.
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The corporate internet banking service customer can change and replace any of the defined user
at any time.
Banking Business Officer
a. Requests the authorized customer to fill user change/termination application form (Refer
Form No. CBEBBF027);
b. The new user replacement process shall be treated as a new user definition process; and
c. Scans and forwards the application form on EDRMS to Senior Banking Business Officer
for authorization.
The corporate internet banking customer may request view access for their employee who are not
signatories.
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b. The remaining process is similar to corporate internet user registration except service
limitation (view access only).
Customers/Users can report the loss of their hard token physically at the branch or to the
contact center.
Banking Business Officer
a. Identifies the customer and retains copy of her/his valid ID for personal internet banking;
b. Verifies the letter received from the authorized signatory for corporate internet banking;
c. Registers in the lost/stolen token registration and token status change form (Refer Form No.
CBEBBF027);
d. Collects the token replacement fees from the customer as per the bank terms and tariffs; and
e. Scan and forward the token replacement application form to Senior Branch
Controller/Branch Controller for checking and documentation.
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Tokens have a life of five years and need to be replaced if that period lapses and the customer
shall appear in person at her/his base branch and request for a token replacement.
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b. Issues the soft token or hard token if the customer persists to use hard token;
c. Registers the destroyed/purged token by taking a minutes, signed by all participants;
d. Destroys the collected token as per the destroying process; and
e. Follows the lost and stolen hard token replacement process under 7.10.6.
Merchants can lodge request for additional POS Terminals directly to branches, which shall be
approved based on business viability of merchants. Request for additional POS Terminals shall
be governed by existing contract agreement with merchants.
Manager Branch Business
a. Requests merchants to fill application forms for additional POS terminals; (Refer Form No.
CBEBBF029)
b. Reviews customer request and forward request to Branch Manager; and
c. Follows same process as stated on POS deployment.
Branch Manager
a. Reviews customer request and forward to District Resource Mobilization Manager;
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PRODUCT AND SERVICE TERMINATION
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account if any;
c. Collects service charge as per the prevailing terms and tariffs if any;
d. Ensures that there are no wrong credit/debit entries or deposit in transit;
e. Initiates the account closure process using the appropriate account closure menu and effect
payment as per the payment procedure or transfer the whole balance to the customer
new/existing account in case of loss of passbook; and
f. Forwards the passbook/unissued cheque, if any, to the Senior Branch Controller/Branch
Controller.
As stipulated in agent agreement, CBE reserves the right to terminate the agent agreement for
any reason at any time;
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a. Interviews the agents to find out a reason(s) for termination, shall do all possible corrective
measures to retain the agent;
b. Receives the service cancellation form request and forwards to Customer Service Manager-
Sales (Refer Form No. CBEBBF028) for service termination; and
c. Forwards the list of the bank’s agent list whose contract is terminated with bank to Resource
Mobilization Manager at District.
Customer Service Manager-Sales
a. Receives the service cancellation requests form from Manager Branch Business;
b. Ensures all settlements are done on the Agent CBE Birr accounts and conventional accounts;
c. Changes the agent status and report to Manager Branch Business;
d. Collects all the bank’s assets in relation to the product and removes the signage from the
agent’s location; and
e. Forwards the cancellation request document to Senior Branch Controller/Branch
Controller for checking and documentation.
CBE birr merchant service can be terminated for the following reasons;
a. When the customer requests to terminate the service;
b. When the merchant changes the business and returns the trade license; and
c. When the merchant license is cancelled while involving in unlawful activities or acting
against the agreement.
The termination process follows the same steps as Agent Service termination as stated on 8.2
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b. Ensures that all settlements are done on the merchant’s account; and
c. Deactivates the merchant’s POS Terminal at T-24 system and forwards the merchant’s
termination application along with the cancellation request to District Resource
Mobilization Manager.
b. Cancels the POS and file previous delivery form in the presence of authorized personnel of
the merchant.
a. Advices the customer to use the service as per the intended purpose and solve any
customer complain or issues, if any, in relation to service ;
b. Supports the customer to open box and make deposit /take the money in the branch, and
advice the customer to continue in her/his account with the bank; and leads the customer
to Senior Banking Business Officer.
Senior Banking Business Officer
a. Collects the muday box as per the contract/agreement from the customer ;or
b. Collects fees as per the terms and tariffs of the bank if the box is found damaged or lost.
8.9 Transaction Checking and Custody of Documents in Product and Service Termination
Senior Branch Controller/Branch Controller
Senior Branch Controller/Branch Controller shall perform the following activities in relation
to document checking and custody:
a. Receives, checks and places the documents (account-opening application form, unused
cheques /passbook) in the “closed account” file in order;
b. Registers the unused cheques and destroys them in the presence of Senior Banking Business
Officer within fifteen days of the account closure;
c. Files the minute held for destroying unused cheques signed by all presented in specified
venue;and
d. Files and keep service termination request applications where EDRMS is not implemented.
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CHAPTER NINE
Any performer whose job is related to cash must strictly adhere to cash holding limit at the start
of the day and during the day’s operation as stated below.
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f. Balance the daily branch cash and records the movement of cash on cash register book; and
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a. Receives the cash and counts it with help of the Banking Business Officer assigned on the
cash table;
b. Ascertains the correctness of the cash received in accordance with the denominations written
down;
c. Acknowledges the receipt of the amount of cash by authorizing through the system;
d. Receives the cash at the table by carefully counting each bundle and brick; and
e. Checks the correctness of the cash by comparing it with that in the system (‘till balance by
denomination’) of Banking Business Officer assigned on the cash table.
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b. Hands over all FCY and LCY cash in excess of 50,000 birr to the Senior Banking
Operation Officer assigned at cash and makes a ‘till transfer’ through the system;
c. Hands over to the Senior Branch Controller/Branch Controller the remaining vouchers in
her or his possession;
d. Keeps the cash in the cash box, together with the stamp, lock the cash box and hands it over
to the Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash.
Beginning balance + cash received from customers + cash received from the vault (the
Senior Banking Operation Officer) - cash paid to the customers – cash sent to the vault
= cash on hand/petty cash
b. Transfers all big denomination notes including loose notes ones (i.e. 50 and 100 notes ) to the
Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash in two steps; first the total amount,
which will be transferred to the table, and second petty cash balance, which will have to be
kept in the cash box overnight (maximum amount should hold on the cashbox is 1,700 birr)
and make a ‘Till transfer’;
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c. Transfers all deteriorated notes on hand at the end of every month to Senior Banking
Operation Officer assigned at cash ;
d. Transfers to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller the remaining deposit and
payment vouchers in her or his hands; and
e. Submits the cash box to the Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash and locks
up the cash box in the vault room.
Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash
a. Receives the cash from the Banking Business Officers after checking against the system;
b. Receives the total amount of cash from the Banking Business Officer by authorizing the
‘Till transfer’ as acknowledgment of the receipt of Cash;
c. Checks that the bricks contain 10 bundles , 100 and 50 Birr notes have initials of the counter
and verifier, in the cases of notes of less than or equal to Birr ten have initial of counter and
also count each FCY currency;
d. Balances the total cash (Both local and foreign currency) transaction against the Banking
Business Officer through the system;
e. Amalgamates all loose/petty cash received into bundles and records the breakdown of all the
Banking Business Officer petty cash on a register for next day’s transfer;
f. Writes the balance of the daily debits and credits on the cash book;
g. Fills the amount of cash withdrawn from the vault during the day and the amount of cash
lodged into the vault on the cash book;
h. Balances the cash books of local and FCY against the Vault account balance and signs on
the space provided for that purpose;
i. Posts the cash lodged to the vault on the system under file ’Till to Vault transfer’;
j. Transfers the cash lodgment to vault, together with petty-cash box jointly, with Manager
Branch Operation; and
k. Checks the cash book balance against the general ledger balance of system on a daily basis.
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a. Checks the vault account balance, till balance by denomination and physical cash balance are
agree on the system;
b. Ensures that each brick contains 10 bundles and counts all the loose Birr notes and count
each FCY notes;
c. Authorize the ‘Till to Vault transfer’ made by the Senior Banking Operation Officer
assigned at cash ;
d. Transfers the physical cash lodgment to vault, together with the petty-cash box jointly, with
the Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash;
e. Complete the daily cash balance after the Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller
confirms by his signature that the total debit and credit transactions are correct and checks
the cash book balance against the general ledger balance of system on a daily basis.
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c. Ensures that all excess cash difference which is not collected by customers should be transfer
to cash surplus account after one month after the cash difference occurs.
9.3 Refund of Excess Cash
Manager Branch Operation
a. Receives the application letter from claimant customer;
b. Ascertains the cash excess has been registered by the branch;
c. Ascertains cash excess has to be refunded to rightful claimant by reviewing all documents;
like application of the claimants with undertaking statement, Banking Business Officer
written statement, receipt or payment voucher and other pertinent circumstantial evidences;
and
d. Proposes and forwards cash excess refund to the rightful claimant to Manager Branch
Business/Manager Branch Control/Branch Manager for approval.
a. Identifies counterfeit notes from genuine notes at a time of collecting cash from customer;
and
b. Makes Mark as “COUNTERFIET” in front of the presenter and report to Manager Branch
Operation.
a. Receives the counterfeit notes and interview the customer retain address of customer; and
b. Reports to the nearest police station immediately by copy to Conventional Payment.
a. Identifies deteriorated notes and depilated coin which is collected from the customer as per
the NBE guideline;
b. Accepts and determine the equivalent mutilated or damaged notes and coins as per the NBE
guideline;
c. Gives equivalent good cash or credit to his/her account as the case may be; and
d. Forwards mutilated or damaged notes and coins to Senior Banking Operation Officer
assigned at cash.
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a. Receives from the Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash fixed amount of
physical cash in different denominations, preferably small denominations and through the
system;
b. Counts the cash she/he is provided with in front of the Senior Banking Operation Officer
assigned at cash and if additional amount of cash is needed, the Senior Banking Operation
Officer assigned at cash shall provide cash against system;
c. Accepts by authorizing ‘Till transfer’ on the system as acknowledgment of receipt of cash;
d. Exchanges big Birr notes received from the public into Birr notes of smaller denominations
and vice versa and posts on the system;
e. Ensures each bundle have 100 Birr notes and surrenders cash in her/his hand at end of cash
operations, during lunchtime and at the end of day closing to the Senior Banking Operation
Officer assigned at cash in different denominations and shall make a ‘Till to till transfer’;
f. Requests/receives/ for the exchange of coins in bags with different denominations from the
Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash and authorizes till transfer for
acceptance similar to birr notes exchange;
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g. Checks/ examines the tag on coin bags and the lead used for packing coin and counts the coins
with a coin-counting machine/manually/ to ascertain the correctness of amount; and
h. Balances the coins during lunchtime and at the end of day closing and hands over to the Senior
Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash the equivalent in cash notes.
9.8 Cash Consolidation, Lodgment, and Vault Cash handing and taking over
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d. Consolidates all cash surrendered to her/him, including any balance of cash, which is kept in
the cash room, with the help of Banking Business Officer at the cash table; and
e. Prepares the cashbook and balances the overall cash in her or his hands with that of the ‘till
transaction today’ and denomination by till.
a. Regularly checks the cash amount hold at the table and lodge the cash to vault as the case
may be;
b. Verifies that each brick contains 10 bundles before transferring the cash to the vault;
c. Verifies the bundles must be properly wrapped, sealed with branch name and date and bear
the signatures of the counter and the verifier for 50 and 100 birr notes;
d. Verifies the correctness of cashbook filled out by the Senior Banking Operation Officer
assigned at cash against ‘Teller Transaction today’ report and ‘till balance by
denomination’ on the system at the day end closing; and
e. Authorizes the ‘Till to Vault transfer’ for the amount lodged.
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c. Opens ATM door with Manager Branch Operation and Manager Branch Control loads
pre-counted cash on each cassette type, in accordance with a breakdown thereof in the
denominations;
d. Ensures whether all the keys are locked before leaving the area; and
e. Checks that the transaction shall be posted on the same date or the next working day for
those cash lodgments made on weekends or holidays; however until the transaction is posted
the ticket shall be kept in the cash vault.
ii. For those Branches assigned additional Senior Banking Operation Officer to
handle ATM cash Management
Branch Manager
a. Assigns Senior Banking Operation Officer and Banking Operation Officer to handle
ATM cash management;
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b. Hand over the ATM vault and door key to Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at
ATM cash handling against signature on key register book;
c. Ensure that combination code are properly changed and deliver in sealed envelope to District
Director timely by Banking Operation Officer assigned at ATM cash handling;
d. Ensure always the ATM cash lodgment out of branch premises should be escorted by bank
guard and also Presence of Manager Branch Control as a witness.
Manager Branch Operation
a. Ensure always enough cash is loaded to ATMs before closing the branch.
b. Arranges and schedules cash reloading in working hours, weekends and holidays;
c. Authorizes the posting for ATM cash lodgment.
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i. Ensures whether all the keys are locked before leaving the area;
j. Ensures that the transaction shall be posted on the next working day those cash lodgments
made on weekends or holidays;
Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at ATM cash handling
a. Ensure cash in ATM are balance at all time and forwards ATM duplicate key to Operation
Manager at District and keep key with due care;
b. Assesses ATM daily cash transaction to set the optimal cash balance in different periods such
as holidays, consecutive business day closing, slack and pick periods, etc;
c. Receives cash from Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash by signing on
dispatch book;
d. Sorts, counts and ready the cash to ATM Machine lodgment;
e. Ensure that Banking Business Officer properly post the transaction before leaving the
branch for lodgment of cash in ATM machine;
f. Opens ATM door with Banking Operation Officer assigned at ATM cash handling, and
Manager Branch Control loads pre-counted cash on each cassette type, in accordance with
a breakdown thereof in the denominations;
g. Ensures whether all the keys are locked before leaving the area; and
h. Checks that the transaction shall be posted on the same date or the next working day for
those cash lodgments made on weekends or holidays; however until the transaction is posted
the ticket shall be kept in the cash vault.
c. Checks and balance cash lodgment and posting are correctly performed by Senior Banking
Operation Officer and Banking Operation Officer assigned at ATM cash handling; and
d. Ensure that physical cash agree with general ledger and report any difference to District
Internal Control and Copy to Branch Manager if any.
ATM cash shortage may occur when the ATM disburses cash to cardholder without deducting
customer’s account. This may be caused by:
a. When cash is disbursed without affecting cardholder’s account;
b. Wrong Cassette loading, insertion and calibration; and
c. Errors in posting.
Senior Banking Operation officer assigned at Cash/ATM cash handling
a. Checks together with Manger Branch Operation/Banking Operation officer assigned at
ATM cash handling that the physical cash in ATM against with General Ledger balance;
and
b. Informs the cash shortage to Manager Branch Control for further checking and reporting to
Branch Manager.
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b. Informs the cash excess to Manager Branch Control for further checking and reporting to
Branch Manager.
Manager Branch Operation
a. Proposes the transfer of ATM excess cash in to cash surplus account within one month after
the difference occurs for those customers difficult to identify account to Branch Manager.
Branch Manager
a.
a. Reviews the proposal of ATM cash excess report received from Manager Branch
Operation and approves to transfer cash excess account.
a. Requests the District Cash issue for the collection of excess cash through letter or through
the system design for this purpose, if any that contains the following details:
i. The total amount of the money to be dispatched should contains breakdown of the
denominations thereof;
ii. The letter should be signed by her/himself ; and
iii. The letter should bear the stamp of the branch.
b. Jointly prepares, with the Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash, the cash to
be sent from the vault; and
c. Checks and authorizes the transaction.
Senior Banking Operation Officer assigned at cash
a. Requests for the ID card of the Officer of unit and ascertains that its number is similar with
the one that appears in the letter;
b. Prepares the cash to be sent from the vault to receiving branch/cash issue center, in
collaboration with Manger, Branch Operation;
c. Identifies the officer over copy format which will be retained by the branch and makes her
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security:
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a. Keep adequate cash in the Cash Office so as to be able to meet immediate requirements;
b. Ensure availability of sufficient coins to meet the moderate requirements of CBE’s
customers;
c. Maintain the specimens of the signatures and the initials of the branch’s authorized
personnel;
d. Ensure that cash is promptly transferred to her/him, so as to avoid an unnecessary
accumulation in the hands of Banking Business Officers;
e. Arrive in cash area before starting of the working hour to make necessary arrangements for
cash operations of the day and start rendering services to the customers as soon as opened.
f. Avoid putting coins in a money bag set aside for other denominations;
g. Prohibit any one into the cash area, other than those employees whose work involves some
type of cash-handling; and
h. Opens emergency window every month to ensure its functionality if any.
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f. Give warning to the Banking Business Officer /Junior Banking Business Officer either in
writing or verbal after the cash operation hour; and
g. Opens emergency window every month to ensure its functionality if any.
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CHAPTER TEN
BOND MANAGEMENT
10.1 Stock Handling
a. Requests the bond coupons by denomination from Manager Bond Operation for branches
located in Addis Ababa or from District Operation and Logistics for outlying Branches;
b. Receives bond coupons and sales form, count and balance by denomination;
c. Registers on stock registration book and system using ERP oracle system;
d. Keeps the bond under his/her custody;
e. Delivers the bond for issuance to Banking Operation Officer by updating the stock on the
system and making sign her/him on the register book;
f. Balances the stock regularly and reports to the Branch Manager.
a. Receives bond coupons from Ethiopian Electric Utility, and sales form from Conventional
Payment Operation, count and balance by denominations;
b. Registers on stock registration book and Excel form designed for the purpose or bond oracle
system (if any);
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a. Checks the interest rate is properly updated and the endorsement is regular;
b. Approves the redemption for the right claimant’s as per the guide line;
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a. Checks all the possible credit entries that might have not been posted /deposit in
transit upon receipt of the cheque from the Banking Business Officer;
b. Fills in all the discrepancies on the cheque including the insufficient balance status
on the cheque return form (Refer Form No. CBEBBF023) and affixes there to the
official stamp of the branch and retain photocopy of the cheque for further action.
However, if the drawer has already stopped the cheque due to loss of cheque or
theft, the branch does not need to state the balance or take action thereof;
c. Affixes the returned slip to the cheque and registers the cheque for insufficient
fund in the system or dishonored cheque register.
d. Records the insufficient cheque in sequential order if two or more cheques are
presented on a given demand deposit account for payment at the same time and if
there is no sufficient fund to cover the amount of the cheque as 1st reminder, 2nd
reminder and account closure accordingly;
e. Hands over the returned slip to the presenter along with the cheque and forwards to
Manger Branch Business;
Manager Branch Business
a. Receives all the relevant documents from Senior Banking Business Officer and
checks against the documents and the system;
b. Takes appropriate action as stipulated in the NBE Directive No SBB/64/2016
(Refer annex 2) and informs to the account holder and to Conventional Payment,
in writing, about the returned cheque; and
c. Forwards all the relevant documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch
Controller for checking and documentation.
11.1.2 Insufficient Fund Cheque Presented to other than Account Holding Branch
(Located in Other Cities)
When a cheque is presented in branch other than the account holding branch located in another
city, the following procedure shall be adhered; however if the insufficient cheque is presented in
same city only account holding branch will entertain as stated in 11.1.1 section.
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Senior Banking Business Officer (At Account Holding and Paying Branch)
a. The branch where the cheque is presented scans and sends the cheque through the bank’s
internal email or any other official communication channels to the account holding branch;
b. When the account holding branch receives the message, it shall follow the steps stated above
for insufficient cheque.
c. The account holding branch shall write a letter that confirms the balance is insufficient to the
branch where the cheque is presented signed by the Manager Branch Business, and put the
branch round stamp and then replies by branch outlook/other official communication
channels;
d. The branch where the cheque is presented, upon receiving the confirmation from the account
holding branch, will give to the payee the “cheque returned slip” (by stating insufficient fund
and by affixing a round stamp).
Manager Branch Business
a. Receives all the relevant documents from Senior Banking Business Officer and checks
against the documents and the system;
b. Informs to the account holder, to the paying branch and to Conventional Payment, in
writing, about the returned cheque due to insufficient cheque or the closure of the demand
deposit account; and
c. Forwards all the relevant documents to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for
checking and documentation.
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a. Makes the fund available for payments like legal, insurance, advertisement, such other non
cash transactions, accrue interest against overdraft accounts against a blocked account;
b. Releases the restrict amount when, the drawer presents the dishonored cheques to the bank
or the payee(s) may appear in person to the bank and confirm in writing that the dishonored
cheques have been fully settled in the form prescribed (Refer Form No. CBEBBF024); and
c. Releases the restrict amount when, the payee(s) fails to appear to receive a full payment
after lapse of six months of presenting the dishonored cheque.
complete the form and sign on and verifies the signature on the form. The standard stop
payment order form shall only be used;
e. Ensures that the stop payment order is placed by authorized person and when the cheque is
lost or stolen only.
f. Notifies the customer to provide police evidence within 15 working days that show the
stop cheque payment order was in fact requested as the cheque is lost or stolen. Otherwise
stop payment sanction shall be released;
g. Ensures that the cheque on which the stop payment order is placed is not withdrawn from
the account prior to receipt of the stop payment order;
h. Inputs into the system such relevant particulars as the cheques number, the amount of
money involved, the date on which it was issued and the name of the payee/beneficiary;
i. Keeps the record until the account holder revokes her/his request or the stop payment
cheque expires its validity date and collect the service charge; and
j. Forwards the stop payment order form to the Manager Branch Business for cosigns.
Manager Branch Business
a. Receives the documents from Senior Banking Business Officer;
b. Checks the restriction made in the system to ensure that it complies with the pertinent rules
and regulations of the Bank; and
c. Cosigns the stop payment order and forwards to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch
Controller for checking and documentation.
d. Incorporate into the system the necessary particulars from the cancelled stop-payment
order form to cancel the stop payment order placed previously;
e. Signs and passes the documents to the Manager Branch Business for co-signing.
Manager Branch Business
a. Receives the document from the Senior Banking Business Officer and checks them to
ensure that they comply with the rules and regulations of the Bank;
b. Co-signs on the letter of request for cancellation of the stop-payment order;
c. Forward the document to Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller for checking and
documentation.
11.3 Amount or Account Blocking
An amount could be blocked from a particular account or the account itself could be fully
blocked if and when:
i. The customer lodges a request for blocking;
ii. The account is held as collateral of a loan to be extended to her or him;
iii. Based on a court’s ruling to that end;
iv. Any other individual/organs having a power to block account by law.
f. Requests the customer to indicate the account number, the amount of money extended as a
loan and the due date for it to be repaid if the blocking is made as a deposit of collateral for a
loan;
g. Releases the locked amount when the customer repays the loan in full and confirmed by the
concerned organ of the bank;
h. Replies to the concerned organ, notifies same to the customer and maintains the blocking
document record until it is released;
i. Checks the locked amount list on the system against the document at the end of the month;
j. Keeps the pertinent documents under her/his custody.
Customer account balance confirmation shall be requested at any online branch by account
holder or signatory or legal agent or the customer can request balance information directly from
the contact center.
Branch Manager
a. Receives the written request from the account holder /agent/signatories and verifies the
signature; however if the request is from third party it should be treated only in the account
holding branch;
b. Checks the balance of customer and any locked amount that is not visible through the system
by contacting original branch in case of the confirmation is given other than base branch;
c. Gives the balance confirmation based on the previous day balance to concerned organ as per
designed standard letter format (Refer Form No. CBEBBF032) in writing; and
d. Collects service charge for written balance confirmation service as per the terms and tariff.
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a. Issues the current account bank statement every month upon customer request on any branch
without service charge ;however for saving accounts service charge shall be collected as per
terms and tariffs ;
b. Issues the additional bank statement which is requests by the customer with collecting
service charge as per the Banks terms and tariffs;
c. In case of the standing order in provision of periodic bank statement through customer’s
email, the customer shall fill application format designed for the purpose (Refer Form No.
CBEBBF033).
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d. Receives the cheque-requisition form from Banking Business Officer and checks all
particulars are filed correctly;
e. Ensures the opening document is authenticated before delivering printed cheque to the
customer, for new account opened : upon registration on the system and assist the customer
to sign on the cheque delivery book and advices the customer to count the cheque leaves
received;
f. Registers the cheque range and cheque type into the system account when the customer
received the cheque;
g. Cancels uncollected personalize cheque from the system and collects service charge as per
term and tariff;
h. Destroys uncollected cheque that had been more than one month since the cheque
personalization completed in collaboration with Senior Branch Controller/ Branch
Controller and Manager Branch Operation.
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personalization;
e. Collects the personalized Cheque from the Conventional Payment and registers
personalized cheque in cheque delivery register book;
f. Informs the customer to collect the personalized cheque;
g. Hands over the personalized cheque to the customer, upon registration on the system and
assists the customer to sign on the cheque delivery book ;
h. Advices the customer to count cheque leaves received;
i. Registers the Cheque range and the Cheque type into the system account when customer
received the Cheque;
j. Registers the personalized cheque/ bankers’ cheque on stock register book and
k. Forwards to the respective Senior Banking Business Officer to issues for the customer’s
against request.
Senior Banking Business Officer
a. Receives and check the personalized cheque/ bankers’ cheque from the Manger-Branch
operation;
b. Communicates the customer to collect the personalized cheque;
c. Delivers to the customer against her/his signature on the cheque delivery register book;
d. Issues the cheque serial on the system linking with the customer account.
e. Cancels uncollected personalize cheque from the system and collects service charge as per
term and tariff;
f. Discards uncollected personalized cheque within three months since the branch receive the
personalized cheque from issuing organ in the presence of the Senior Branch Controller/
Branch Controller and Manager Branch Operation.
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c. Register the pass book stock received numerically in the pass book stock register and the
system;
d. Forwards the pass book to the Banking Business Officer who is assigned on the account
opening window/dedicated area on demand base against signing on pass book register book;
e. Keeps un-issued pass books in custody.
As stamps are sensitive by nature, staffs who keep custody of rubber stamps should bear in mind
that they must be kept under lock when not in use.
Manager Branch Operation
a. Submits a stamp requisition letter to procurement unit, clearly indicating the type if it is a
new one or a replacement;
b. Registers all stamps received from their respective supply offices into the registered book
prepared for this purpose;
c. Issues the stamp to the staff against her/his signature by registering on register book
prepared for this purpose;
d. Ensures that the designated staffs of the Bank properly handle the stamps;
e. Collects the old rubber stamps whenever they are replaced by new ones;
f. Ensures that hands over all rubber stamp against her/his signature in the register the system
when a staff is transferred from the branch;
g. Detaches the rubber part of old/damaged rubber stamp and destroy in the presence of the
Senior Branch Controller/ Branch Controller
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11.8.1 Handling of Strong Room Doors, Grills, Vault and ATM keys
Branch Manager
a. Register all keys on the key register book;
b. Hands over the keys to the responsible performer after singing on the register book;
c. Updates the register book when there is a change in keys or performers;
d. Hands over the strong room doors, grills, ATM and vaults duplicate keys to Manager-
District Operation and Logistics using handing taking format.
a. Receives the vault key against her/his signature on the Key register.
b. Hands over the duplicate key to District Operation and Logistic as a reserve using the
handing and taking form;
c. Ensures not leaving keys in the Bank premises after office hour.
a. The individual key holders should immediately report the loss of keys in writing to their
immediate supervisors;
b. Those in custody of duplicate keys upon receipt of loss reports-must immediately supply
the duplicates to the concerned Branch /individual;
c. All costs and expenses that are incurred as a result of a key or keys replacement or the
change of a locking-device will be paid by the employee who lost the key or keys;
d. Lost strong room door or large safe key must be totally replaced by a new one at the
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11.8.5 Branch Main Gate, Safe cabinet and other Keys Handling
a. The Branch Manager registers all the keys on the key register book and hands over to
the responsible person after making her/him sign on it. Keeps all the reserve keys except
strong room, vault and ATM keys under his custody;
b. The Manager Branch Operation is responsible in keeping the Branch main gate key
under her/his custody or she/he may delegate others by properly handing over the key
against signing on the key register;
c. The Branch Manager delivers fence keys to the branch lead guard/shift leader by
making her/him signing on key register;
d. All reserve keys, except the strong room key, main Vault and the ATM Vault, should be
kept under the custody of the Branch Manager;
e. Transfer of keys from person-to-person needs to be duly recorded in the register, against
signature of holder, and needs to be updated regularly.
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a. Checks cards/pins delivery registration to identify cards kept under custody for over six
months;
b. Records repeated efforts made to deliver cards to respective holders prior to destruction;
c. Registers the uncollected cards and cancels the corresponding data in the T-24 system;
d. Destroys the cards and the pins uncollected for over six months in presence of Senior
Banking Business Officer and Manager Branch Control;
c. Lists destroyed cards and keeps minutes to be signed by the participating branch
officers;
d. Sends the list of destroyed cards to Manager card management for blacklisting;
e. Files the minutes for evidence and future reference.
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c. Retrieve blocked amounts and accounts from the core banking system and checks its execution
as per the instruction, proper follow-ups made by the responsible person in the branch and
report to the Branch Manager if there is any deviation;
d. Check the stock and keys management is done as per the procedure and reports to the Manager
Branch Control if there is any deviation;
e. Collect and registers lost and found cards within the premises and On the ATM;
f. Destroy the card if remained uncollected for over two months in presence of Customer Service
Manager-Service;
g. Register the uncollected cards and cancels the corresponding data in the T-24 system;
h. Ensure the documents are requested by the standard request form (Refer Form No.
CBEBBF035) designed for this purpose.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Branch Internal Control
a. Extracts/downloads user related activity reports from control tools for checking daily;
b. Checks the following user activity control reports on daily basis to identify and monitor
suspicious user activities;
i. New user created or modified;
ii. All password reset in the branch;
iii. User who login outside from his /her domain Branch/Unit;
iv. User who login multiple times from different geographical locations.
c. Analyzes suspicions user activities for which valid justifications are not given by the branch
and send report in writing to Manager District Internal Control on daily basis for further
analysis and action;
d. Receives suspicious customer related activities from Transaction Control Department at
center/Manager District Internal Control, request justification from the branch/make further
analysis and sends the closed and open cases back to District Internal Control for further
action;
e. Prepares a monthly summary report on the status of suspicious user related activities and
sends to district internal control and copy to Branch Manager;
a. Extracts/downloads customer related activity reports from control tools for checking daily;
b. Checks the following control reports to identify suspicious customer related activities on:
a. New created /modified customer;
b. New created or modified customer that is not inputted and authorized within same
branch;
c. Customer record deletion is done by unauthorized person;
d. Customer record reversal made on a given business day;
e. Alert is not attached for the new customer on the same date;
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c. Analyzes suspicions customer related activities for which valid justifications are not given by
the branch and send report to Manager District Internal Control on daily basis for further
review and subsequent action;
d. Receives suspicious customer related activities from Transaction Control Department at
center /Manager District Internal Control, request justification from the branch/make further
analysis and sends the closed and open cases back to District Internal Control for further
action;
e. Prepares a monthly summary report on the status of suspicious customer related activities
and sends to district internal control and copy to Branch Manager;
a. Extracts/downloads account related activity reports from control tools for checking
daily;
b. Checks the following control reports to identify suspicious account related activities
on:
i. New created /modified account;
ii. Newly opened account is not captured on the same date;
iii. Posting restrictions made while new accounts opened;
iv. Appropriateness of positing restriction made on existing accounts;
v. Appropriateness of account status change;
vi. Account limits attachments made by unauthorized person.
c. Analyzes suspicions account related activities for which valid justifications are not
given by the branch and sends report to Manager District Internal Control on daily
basis for further review and subsequent action;
d. Receives suspicious account related activities from Transaction Control Department
at center /Manager District Internal Control, request justification from the
branch/make further analysis and sends the closed and open cases back to District
Internal Control for further action;
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further analysis and sends the closed and open cases back to District Internal Control
for further action;
e. Prepares a monthly summary report on the status of suspicious customer related
activities and sends to district internal control and copy to Branch Manager.
12.5 Mobile, Internet and Card Banking users registration, profile creation and transaction
control
a. Extracts/downloads user registration and profile creation related activity reports from
control tools on daily basis;
b. Reviews the reports to check:
i. Mobile/Internet banking registration is as per the customer request;
ii. Customer personal mobile number registered or for Mobile banking service is as
per the customer request and/or presence of customer by referring customer table
history in T24 and EDRMS, as applicable;
iii. Customer personal mobile number or email address registered for Internet
banking service is as per the customer request and/or presence of customer by
referring customer table history in T24,4tress authentication console and EDRMS,
as applicable;
iv. The registered User profile has the correct account number/s, user type and user
privilege access for corporate Internet banking customer’s request;
v. The registered payment card profile (debit card or pre-paid card) account
association is valid or done as per customer’s request, by referring the customer
request.
c. Downloads/receives ATM, POS, Mobile banking and Internet Banking transactions of the
branch and checks transaction amount that is significant (abnormal) against customer
account statement or doesn’t show similar pattern in amount and frequency on ATM, POS,
Mobile banking and Internet Banking;
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d. Analyzes suspicions ATM, POS, Mobile banking and Internet Banking transactions for
which valid justifications are not given by the branch and sends report to Manager District
Internal Control on daily basis for further review and subsequent action;
e. Receives suspicious ATM, POS, Mobile banking and Internet Banking transactions from
Manager District Internal Control, request justification from the branch/make further
analysis and send the closed and open cases back to District Internal Control for further
action;
f. Prepares a monthly summary report on the status of suspicious customer related activities
and sends to district internal control and copy to Branch Manager.
a. Receives new user creation request from the Branch Manager, validate the request and send
to Information Access Control Department by mail;
b. Receives user role change request, checks and modify the role on the system and keep the
request form under her/his custody;
c. Receives password reset request from performers using the standard form, reset on the
system and keep the request form under her/his custody;
d. Identifies suspicious access related activities and report to Information Access Control
Department at center on daily basis.
e. Prepares a weekly summary report on the role change and password reset to District
Internal Control to compile and send to Information Access Control at center and copy to
Branch Manager.
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a. Ensure all day to day activity performed in compliance with rules and regulation;
b. Measures the SDTs of all branch activities (like account opening, selling of alternative
channels, delivery of produced cards, collection and payment services and other services) and
compile the data and forward to Manager Internal Control at district on monthly basis by
copy to Branch Manager;
c. Checks all suspense accounts and their reconciliation status , are timely settled and GL have
a normal balance, and reports to Internal control at district and copy to Branch Manager
monthly for any variation ;
d. Checks that ATM, POS and CBE Birr transactions are reconciled daily and report status to
Manager Internal Control at district Monthly;
e. Check cash holding limit of the branch and each Performers every time and report to
Manager Internal Control at district Monthly ;
f. Identifies any operational risk and communicate to Manager Internal Control at district
and copy to Branch Manager annually;
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g. Checks the physical asset tagging and recording, utilization, maintenance is done properly
and report to Manager Internal Control at district and copy to Branch Manager semi
annually.
h. Report summarized findings monthly on standard reporting formats to Manager Internal
Control at district and copy to the Branch Manager.
13. REPEAL
All procedures issued by former CATS and E-payment processes and other related
directives/memos are all repelled and replaced by this procedure.
15. EXCEPTIONS
This procedure manual shall cover the majority of all activities, duties and responsibilities of all
staffs involved in the branch business, operation and control activities. There may be, however,
in rare circumstances activities may not conform to this procedure manual. Therefore, such
related activities to be made by exceptions shall be approved by the next higher authority level
by writing the word ‘OK’ and signature.
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Officer/President.
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