IME General Insurance joins NPI; agreement to automate insurance company’s payment related process
IME General Insurance Company Ltd. has signed an agreement with Nepal Clearing House Ltd. (NCHL)for automating its various payments related processes, including disbursements and collections, through NCHL payment systems. The agreement was signed by Mr. Yogesh Bhakta Bade Shrestha, CEO of IME General Insurance and Mr. Neelesh Man Singh Pradhan, CEO of NCHL.
With this, IGI has become another non-life insurance company to directly integrate its system(s)with National Payments Interface (NPI) of NCHL, enabling the insurance company to process the disbursement transaction, like claim proceeds, credit note payment, agent commission, survey payment, salary payment, purchase/vendor payments, and investment placements fully automated through NCHL-IPS and connectIPS systems. This will also help the insurance company to sweep their transactions from multiple accounts held at different banks to its operating account. All such transactions will be processed directly through the bank accounts of the insurance company to the beneficiary/ customer account held at any bank/financial institution. With this integration, the transactions can be fully automated and reconciliation eased.
IGI along with other 30 life and non-life insurance companies are already using NCHL’s connectIPS platform for their premium collection and 8life and non-life insurance companies have already subscribed for NPI system, which is now part of the National Payment Switch. NPI is a consolidated interface for interconnection with multiple underlying payment systems of NCHL and has over 60 BFIs within the network and is being used by 69non-bank institutions including PSPs/PSOs, insurance companies, remittances, merchant banks, Government, Semi-Govt institutions, large corporates etc.
