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Free mortgage medical check at Scotiabank!

Scotiabank's Personal banking department 'mortgage switch month' all geared in their medical outfits. Photo: VINO
Scotiabank's Kwana Jerome gives a customer's mortgage a medical check-up. Photo: VINO
Scotiabank's Kwana Jerome gives a customer's mortgage a medical check-up. Photo: VINO
Scotiabank's Home Financial Specialist Ms Lurina Leonard-Charles says she is pleased so far with the response to the promotion. Photo: VINO
Scotiabank's Home Financial Specialist Ms Lurina Leonard-Charles says she is pleased so far with the response to the promotion. Photo: VINO
One member of the team, Ms Shavern Roberts took the promotion to the streets. Photo: VINO
One member of the team, Ms Shavern Roberts took the promotion to the streets. Photo: VINO
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Your health is your wealth and you are always advised to visit your doctor regularly to get a checkup but have you ever thought about checking up your mortgage account?

Like you, your mortgage does experience ups and downs sometimes or might be in good shape and like you doctors would advise you, it may require the devising of a maintenance scheme to keep it in shape.

Cognisant of these facts, Scotiabank has embarked on a promotion to give its customers' mortgages that check-up. It comes at no cost but requires visiting the Medical Mortgage Professionals that are at the bank for the month of June, 2013.

The promotion assures that "saving money on your mortgage payment takes only minutes," stated Scotiabank's Home Financial Specialist Ms Lurina Leonard-Charles.

Ms Leonard-Charles further told Virgin Islands News Online that so far the promotion has been getting a good response and urged others to come in for that medical checkup of their mortgage.

Visiting the department, you come face to face with staff all dressed in medical outfits and their stethoscopes strung around their necks.

Explaining the stethoscopes as a conversation starter, Ms Leonard Charles said, "just like a customer's physical health can benefit from a check-up by their doctor, we are improving our customer's financial well-being by inviting them to meet a sales officer."

She further explained that a free mortgage check-up is an invitation to meeting their borrowing power.

The objectives of the promotion are to improve customers' cash flow, pay less interest and access additional funds.

22 Responses to “Free mortgage medical check at Scotiabank!”

  • ABC (15/06/2013, 12:16) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Keep the good works up Scotia
  • high (15/06/2013, 14:39) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    the intrest rate is too high
  • Chris (15/06/2013, 17:56) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    Not cool wearing scubs in the Bank.....Everyone pressure is high and so is the bank intrest rate...by the way who deam them quailfied anyone pressure...the medical intrest rate in that bank will sure to send you to the ER...in 3.9 seconds...not percent.
    • RedStorm (17/06/2013, 15:58) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
      Chris, I love some of your suggestion. I don't know what qualify the bank as MEDICAL people but there are people who has gone to college to earn a degree in such Medical profession, working some twelve hours. Earn that degree then to see some bank taking it to be a marketing idea, I don't mind you using the idea, but don't says it as a MEDICAL effort when its really not. Look at the women trying to take the heart beat, does she knows what she is listen to, it is offensive to me that people who work hard for there professional degree should not see another display it so lightly in an unprofessional manner.
  • Equity (15/06/2013, 22:05) Like (7) Dislike (3) Reply
    Just another ploy by ScotiaBank to rip off customers. Access what additional funds? Just borrowing your equity at a ridiculously high rate and winding up in the same financial mess! No thank you Scotia. My aim is to get as far away from you as possible and deal with a bank with integrity.
    • @ Equity (16/06/2013, 18:49) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
      Obviously, you are not as financially educated as you sound.... Maybe you are just another customer who is in serious need of a check up!

      Typical black people always trying to bring down their own! Stick with those US Banks who gamble your monies and leave you at risk aren't you aware of the economic crisis the US is in now ?
  • Doctor Smith (16/06/2013, 01:10) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    An excellent idea. Make sure the depositors don't have any viruses trying to make them ill; such as
    the US or UK tax viruses...those have been multiplieing like the plague...the Cameroon and Obama
    strains are nasty.
  • Please! (16/06/2013, 12:24) Like (4) Dislike (4) Reply
    I wish your Branch Manager will smile!
    • @Please! (18/06/2013, 08:38) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Well you see if the garden aint gettin no wata tings does be a frown. Maybe as we get into the rainy season the garden may get plenty wata and the frown would be turned upside down into a smile. So wuk on it!
      • tantyO (18/06/2013, 16:52) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
        @please, mek sure your garden get wet and its good water. No worm in it. Who have glass windows shouldn't throw stones, keep smiling
  • Thankful (16/06/2013, 18:26) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply

    Scotia, you always was there for me, my car, my credit card, my mortgage, thank you. Don't worry about those negative people, they are the ones that cant see beyond there nose, and don't have a pot to p!$$ in.

  • barry say (16/06/2013, 18:29) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    I WAS IN THE BANK AND I HAD TO SMILE. LAWD HAVE MERCY, SCOTIA BANK YOU ALWAYS AHEAD AH DE GAME, WHEN MAN A SLEEP AH YOU WIDE AWAKE , DEM CANT TOUCH AH YOU. KEEP IT UP.
  • NON BELONGER (16/06/2013, 18:38) Like (4) Dislike (6) Reply
    I have never seen a Place that disrespects its own like the BVI. The online news site should not be used to voice ones personal grievance. Making such a personal remark on the Branch Manager has no place on this site, the person who wrote that obviously is a disgruntled and shallow person, may even be an ex staff member or staff member trying to get back at their boss, not fooling anyone, but what you did is to personally attack an individual rather than posting something constructive. Go get a life, write something with sense next time, "aint nobody got time for that"
  • Satisfied Customer (16/06/2013, 18:44) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    You can always count on Scotiabank for these brilliant inetiatives and there team of professionals are just great. I am a customer of the bank for almost a number of years now and my most recent encounter was with Miss. Jeromey who I saw grew from telling and now a Credit Officer such a brilliant and professional young lady. Miss Roberts I didn't forget you. Keep doing what you aall do. Hats off to Scotiabank for always putting the Public first. Keep up the good work all.
  • Darby S (16/06/2013, 18:46) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Please, you need to go and sit down Please!!!! I have accounts with 3 banks on the island, and I take pleasure going into Scotiabank,yes to see the smiling faces and them calling me by name. Their staff are far advanced of those at the other banks, if you think I lie, just go into the other banks, and then go to Scotia and you will see what I am talking about. In life nothing is perfect, they need to do something with those darn long lines, but the experience I get when I go there makes the long wait in line secondary.. Please., if you have the woman man, deal with it like a woman, yes you are a woman, no an would write such a petty comment........Please.
  • ajkuke (16/06/2013, 18:50) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    Scotia got some real pretty girls there man, they can take my pressure anytime. They look like they step out of a Magazine - Way to go Scotia, good ting
  • WHY? (16/06/2013, 20:52) Like (3) Dislike (10) Reply
    Staff turnover seems to be high at Scotia. I would love to bank with them, but I'm always having to deal with new employees all the time. Always a new face when I go in there.
    • @ WHY? (16/06/2013, 23:12) Like (1) Dislike (5) Reply
      STOP tell lie I have bank with them for 10 years and see most of the same persons there..you to damm lie
  • @ bary say (18/06/2013, 06:24) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    U AIN'T NEVER LIE!!!! SCOTIA BY FAR HAS THE BEST STAFF AROUND THE ISLAND. AND FOR THE PETTY SUPID REMARKS ABOUT TURN OVERS! AT LEAST WHEN EVER A STAFF TOUCHES SCOTIA DOES NOT HESITATE TO PUT IT IN THE MEDIA. U NEED WORRY ABOUT THE OTHER BANKS THAT PUSHES IT UNDER THE CARPETS! SO SILLY! BLACK PEOPLE REALLY HARD TO PLZ! GET A LIFE!
  • loyalB (18/06/2013, 16:23) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply

    Scotia u are #1. I don't know what rock. "Why" crawl from under but I bank wid Scotia and its the same faces I see so I don't know what Why talking about. Can u imagine Scotia calls me each year on my birthday, now tell me who could match dat? Scotia aint no b s bank, I can sleep at nights knowing my money safe....ah u naysayers go wey, later for ayo

  • JohnC (18/06/2013, 16:26) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    I don't have much regard for banks they are a bunch of crooks but I must admit after switching my business to Scotia 2 years ago, they come closest to writing the book on customer service, they are in a class of their own and always come up with some innovative and creative things. Got to give it to them
  • Positive (19/06/2013, 12:28) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    AN EXCELLENT CONCEPT!


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