Bancassurance
Bancassurance in simple terms means marketing of insurance products under the same roof of a Bank branch. It thus facilitates a customer to carry out all his financial and investment needs with just a visit to his bank branch.
Uco Bank, apart from its Core Banking activities, has entered into the Bancassurance Business with the object of offering a variety of services and products to its customers.
Participation of the Bank’s customers shall be purely on a voluntary basis.
It is however explicitly made clear that UCO Bank as Corporate Agent does not underwrite the insurance risk or act as an insurer as per IRDA (Licensing of Corporate Agents) Regulations 2002. In brief contract of Insurance is between the Insurer and Insured and not between the Bank and the Insured.
In Bancassurance - Life the Bank is the Corporate Agent of Life Insurance Corporation of India, the only Public Sector Life Insurance Company, since August 2003. For more details click here. www.licindia.com
In Bancassurance - Non-Life the Bank initially was the Corporate Agent of National Insurance Company Ltd, from September 2003 to end of April 2009. Since 30th September 2009, the Bank has entered into a tie with Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd. for the General Insurance Business. For more details click here. www.reliancegeneral.co.in
Uco Bank has in place a Corporate Insurance Executive (CIE) at its Head Office in Kolkata and Specified Persons at various centres for carrying out its bancassurance business as per the IRDA guidelines.
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Branches of UCO Bank shall advise every individual policy holder to effect nomination / assignment and or change of address or exercise of options, as the case may be, and offer necessary assistance in this regard wherever sought for.
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