South Africa’s FNB Has The Most Popular Banking Website In Africa

In its most recent survey of web users, Alexa (www.alexa.com) noted that FNB was the only banking website in the top 10 sites in Africa and was the most popular banking website on the continent. Typically, national or regional news-based websites dominate the top 10. As a specialised banking site primarily aimed at the bank’s

Angola’s Biggest ATM Operator Selects Wincor Nixdorf for IT Service Management

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Angola’s leading ATM network operator will in future be using Wincor Nixdorf’s ProView software to handle IT service management for its 2000 self-service systems. EMIS, a company that is majority-owned by Angolan banks, aims to use the solution to improve the availability of the systems.   At the same time it is expected that the

FNB Launches Next Generation Banking App for Tablets

The next generation App is the first Banking App in South Africa that allows new and existing customers to open an account in real time, directly from the App. FNB has released a new Banking App customised for tablet devices, complimenting a much larger tablet device strategy for the Bank. From today, the App is available

Absa Launches App for Retail and Business Customers

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Financial Services Group Absa Bank has launched its much-anticipated App as part of its strategic digital journey, which forms part of its ambition of becoming the Go-To bank in South Africa. The App builds on a strong foundation of infrastructure developments while leveraging shared global resources to deliver value to customers. The technological capability built

FNB Enables Money Transfer to Zimbabwe through Cellphone Banking

FNB has launched a service for FNB customers in SA to send money to residents in Zimbabwe using its Cellphone Banking channel. “FNB’s Zimbabwe Money Transfer service is more convenient and economical than anything else offered in the market,” says Yolande van Wyk, Head of Digital and Alternative Banking for FNB Africa. Recently, research data

PASA Mandates 3D Secure for all Online Payments

The Payments Association of South Africa has mandated the implementation and usage of 3D Secure for all merchants that process Card not Present transactions.  The first implementation date was the 2nd of April 2013. The need for additional protection against unauthorised use of cards arose due to the significantly increasing fraud in this area.  It