Economic Reporter :BRAC Bank on Tuesday launched two state-of-the-art technologies to provide people with smart phone based banking and account opening services at their door steps. One of the new services named Smart Opener will offer people a faster and smoother account opening service when the other one - Bank Mobile Application - will offer major banking services on smart phone. Brac Bank managing director and chief operating officer Syed Mahbubur Rahman and brand ambassador Taskin Ahmed launched the two IT-based services at a press conference at the bank's Head Office in Dhaka.Smart Opener is the first of its kind account opening service where bank officials will visit customer's home or office to open account. Equipped with a tablet, bank officials will click customer photograph and necessary documents to open a BRAC Bank Account and complete other regulatory requirements. Interested individuals can set an appointment for this service by calling BRAC Bank's 24-Hour Call Center 16221 or by typing 'SO' and sending sms to 16221 or by sending an email to smart.opener@bracbank.com.Initially the accounting opening facility will be available for Dhaka City Corporation area. Soon BRAC Bank will start the facility in other regions of the country. With BRAC Bank Mobile, customers of BRAC Bank can avail banking services from their Smart Phone anytime, anywhere. The services include fund transfer, bill payments, mobile top-up, credit card bill payment mini statement, detail statement, transaction history and many other services."With the launch of Smart Opener and BRAC Bank Mobile, we now take account opening services to your home and all banking services to your fingertips. We will continue to bring in more IT-enabled and innovative services for the comfort and convenience of our customers", Syed Mahbubur Rahman said.He said BRAC Bank Mobile is fully secured with Bangladesh Bank instructed Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). The apps can be downloaded from Google Play. Customers can login to BRAC Bank Mobile with their BRAC Bank Internet Banking User ID, Password and One-Time-Password (OTP). Soon it will be available on AppStore.