MUSCAT, 25 December 2013 – The Sultanate's flagship al Mazyona savings scheme from Bank Muscat offering a prize basket of RO 7 million celebrated the weekly draw at Al Ansab branch in which 30 customers covering all regions, including three Zeinah customers, won RO 1,000 each. Customers get one chance for the weekly draw for every RO 100 balance.

With 3 weekly prizes reserved for every governorate, customers have a very good chance to win RO 1000 with a minimum balance of RO 100. The weekly prizes reserved for governorates include 9 in Muscat, 6 in Batinah, 3 in Dhakliya+Wusta, 3 in Dhahirah+Musandam, 3 in Dhofar and 3 in Sharqiya.

Momentum has started building up for the RO 1 million al Mazyona year-end grand prize, which will be shared by 10 customers covering all the governorates, including one Priority Banking customer, who will receive RO 100,000 each. Customers maintaining a minimum balance of RO 1000 for the last quarter of the year are eligible for the grand prize draw.

al Mazyona offers the biggest prize money in Oman and the region. Notably, the enhanced prize money is shared by more winners as customers from all governorates are guaranteed to win prizes ranging from RO 1000 a week, RO 50,000 every quarter to RO 100,000 at the end of the year. al Mazyona scheme reaches out to all individual segments with exclusive prizes earmarked for ladies, youth, children and high savings balance customers in all regions.

Bank Muscat understands customer expectations and al Mazyona represents innovative customer segmentation based on two principles - region and demographics – ensuring higher winning chances to all customers across the Sultanate, including ladies, youth and children. Winning with al Mazyona has never been simpler as customers are not required to block their money for long or wait for a long time to win the big prize. The bank attaches great importance to inculcating prudent savings and spending habits and has tailored al Mazyona scheme with this objective in mind.

An added attraction is that the winning chances get multiplied by the number of years customers are associated with al Mazyona savings scheme. For example, if a customer has been saving for 5 years, his chances of winning get multiplied by 5 times and similarly if he has been maintaining al Mazyona savings account for 20 years, his chances get multiplied 20 times and so on. This benefit is unique only to al Mazyona savings scheme and no other bank offers this, as on date. This provides high savers with the best chance to win the year-end RO 1 million prizes.

Over the years, al Mazyona has succeeded in inculcating a savings culture in Oman. The flexible scheme makes regular saving easier and is available across the largest network of 138 branches in Oman.