Browsing: First National Bank

Brett Haggard and Andy Hadfield get together to talk about some big e-commerce deals, some start-up investment, some new gadgets and some leaky cloud services. Topics under discussion include the Kalahari, Takealot merger, First National Bank’s R3m donation to

The latest version of First National Bank’s transactional banking app for smartphones now offers customers the ability to send money across the border to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. FNB’s Zimbabwe money transfer service was first launched on

Standard Bank has apologised to its clients for technical glitches that lasted several hours on Monday. “The bank regrets any inconvenience caused,” Standard Bank chief executive in personal and business banking Funeka Montjane said

There’s a revolution under way, and this one’s not being agitated by the working class, although they certainly have their part to play. It is being waged by banks, cellphone providers and entrepreneurs hoping to capitalise on a mobile commercial market that is estimated will be worth more than US$800bn by 2016 and have more than 400m users

First National Bank is poised to become the first South African financial services institution to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The bank is at an advanced stage of discussions with Cell C to launch the MVNO, two independent sources with knowledge of the plans have told TechCentral. The news comes just a day after

First National Bank will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the Web browser introduced with Windows 7, from September. The bank told customers on Thursday it cannot be restricted by the limitations IE8 imposes on its online banking system. “It is our policy to support the three latest Internet Explorer

First National Bank has suspended “some online functionality” while it investigated duplicate transactions on some customers’ accounts. The bank says the suspension will be brief while it reversing affected customer accounts. “Limited functionality will be available on the following

First National Bank has overhauled its smartphone banking app, introducing a new look and feel to the software and adding several new features. The new-look FNB Banking App is already available for download on all major platforms, including Apple, Android and Windows Mobile. An updated

Samsung Electronics has the coolest computer brand and the coolest hi-tech gadget, while repeat winner Vodacom is South Africa’s coolest mobile operator. These are some of the findings of the 2014 Sunday Times Generation Next survey, which polled a sample group of 5 500 South African youngsters

Former Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys and former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan have joined the board of Invenfin, the venture capital division of investment holding company Remgro Limited, as nonexecutive directors. Uys is already Remgro’s investment executive