FNB First Bank in SA to Provide Its Own Mobile Services

FNB announced that it has become the first bank to offer its own SIM cards to its customers from 15 June 2015. Currently FNB offers ADSL and 3G data rewards through its FNB Connect offering, which will now be expanded to include mobile voice and data products. The bank is already established in the telecommunications

Equity Bank to Issue Ultra-slim SIM Cards

Kenya’s Equity Bank plans on issuing subscribers with ultra-slim SIM cards to access mobile money accounts provided by the bank while saving users the trouble of migrating networks, according to a report. The company was last monthgranted a mobile virtual network operator licence by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) and this weekannounced its rollout