{"id":199224,"date":"2017-09-17T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=199224"},"modified":"2017-09-17T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T07:12:03","slug":"nedbank-launches-first-solar-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/199224\/nedbank-launches-first-solar-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nedbank launches first solar branch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nedbank has launched what it claims is South Africa\u2019s first solar branch in Mncwasa, 60km from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n

In what it said is a first-to- market in the financial sector, the Nedbank solar-powered branch is aimed at providing convenient banking solutions to a community without banking facilities through SolarTurtle, a mobile service provider owned by members of the Mncwasa community.<\/p>\n

More than 69% of the Mncwasa community is economically inactive and depends on child support grants, with employment concentrated among teachers and small-scale entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

The solar branch will enable community members to access financial services such as cashless banking, and make use of digital-payment solutions through Masterpass – a digital-payment app from Nedbank.<\/p>\n

The digital wallet enables faster and safer transactions as it saves client payment information in a secure digital storage facility so that they can make online purchases, the bank said.<\/p>\n

The app can be downloaded from the Apple, Android, Blackberry and Windows app stores.<\/p>\n

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Read: Nedbank launches app to pay for school activities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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