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First National Bank (FNB) today launched a revamped version of its banking app, tailored specifically for tablets.The bank was the first in South Africa to launch an app in 2011, with its major competitors all eventually following suit. The new tablet app has most of the same features as the ...

Absa has officially launched its smartphone banking app, making it the last of South Africa's major banks with such an offering.The app, which is available on Android and iOS, includes a number of traditional online banking features, as well as a GPS-based ATM locator and branch locator and the ...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has described the innovations put out by South African banking giant First National Bank (FNB) as "game-changing".Speaking at the bank's annual leadership conference, Wozniak said he was impressed by the kind of thinking he saw in action at FNB:I have addressed many conferences, but ...

This is interesting. Those notification SMSes you get when from your bank whenever money leaves or enters your account could soon be a thing of the past.South African banking giant FNB says that it's looking at converting the notifications into push messages that will appear on its smartphone and ...

The mobile banking wars are hotting up. Just a day after Nedbank released a beta app to its staff, fellow South African banking giant Standard Bank quietly slipped out one of its own.The app, which is currently available for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry launched yesterday without any official announcement ...

Standard Bank has rolled out what it claims is the world's first bank card to include both NFC and debit card functionality.The so-called Muvo card was developed in partnership with the South African bank's business development centre and innovation incubator Beyond Payments. The debit card functionality will come from Mastercard, ...

Mobile payment has been a massive technology talking point over the past two years as hardware manufacturers wizen up to the fact that more can be done with their products and banks realise that going to an ATM or, even worse, the actual branch is not high on their clients' ...

When First National Bank (FNB)’s GeoPayments service leaked earlier this week, we were fairly impressed. Now the banking giant has officially gone live with it we can give the full low-down.In an official press release, the company confirms that the new functionality uses location-based services.It claims that ...

South African banking giant FNB has added a new feature to its app that allows users to make and receive payments when they're in close proximity without having to know each other's banking details.It may sound like voodoo, but it's actually pretty simple. The process, called Geo-banking, uses the ...

Much has been said about the recent online spat between Standard Bank and First National Bank (FNB). If it really can be called a spat, since FNB hardly reacted to the attack. Both the official FNB account @rbjacobs and the FNB CEO @michaeljordaan chose to "remain above it all".In truth, ...