{"id":145919,"date":"2016-12-06T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T09:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=145919"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:31:17","slug":"standard-bank-launches-new-forex-trading-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/145919\/standard-bank-launches-new-forex-trading-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank to launch new forex trading app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank will unveil a new forex trading app, set to go live on the Apple and Android app stores over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Through the new app, customers will be able to buy a number of different currencies at a live rate, and store the funds digitally.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Bank said in July that its mobile traffic is growing\u00a0 at 100% annually as customers embrace more convenient and efficient solutions for their banking needs.<\/p>\n<p>During 2015, 825 million financial transactions worth R430 billion were processed through the banking app.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence of this, branch transactional volumes have declined and ATM and branch transactions now make up less than 5% of total banking transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said that 95% of its transactions are already electronic, while it is processing substantial volumes, with approximately 570 million transactions processed in 2015, 27% more than in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/142251\/standard-bank-launches-ucount-for-business-heres-how-it-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standard Bank launches UCount for business \u2013 here\u2019s how it works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank will unveil a new forex trading app, set to go live on the Apple and Android app stores over the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-145919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146335,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145919\/revisions\/146335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}