{"id":20501,"date":"2012-08-28T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=20501"},"modified":"2012-08-28T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:32:04","slug":"standard-bank-hits-50000-app-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/20501\/standard-bank-hits-50000-app-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank hits 50,000 app users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank says its banking application has reached\u00a050,000 registered users since it launched on 27 June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage, statistics indicate that, since the app was launched, there are just over 50,000 registered users. Over R500 million in transactions has been processed through this platform,&#8221; said\u00a0Itumeleng Monale, head of self-service and payment innovation at Standard Bank South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday 15 August, First National Bank (FNB), the first to launch a banking application, said it had reached a quarter of a million active customers, with monthly\u00a0FNB app\u00a0activations\u00a0reaching 40,000.<\/p>\n<p>Banking rival, Nedbank announced the launch of its digital banking app in-house in June (although it started in March), giving staff beta access to the App Suite ahead of the planned public release.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Bank Mobile Banking enables users to access a number of Standard Bank&#8217;s services, even if you are not an account holder. Users will only be allowed to access accounts from linked devices.<\/p>\n<p>The app makes provision for up to 10 devices to be linked to an account.<\/p>\n<p>The app is free, and has no subscription fees attached \u2013 but Standard Bank does point out that \u201cthere are transaction fees on certain transactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FNB App hits 40,000 monthly activations\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/20048\/fnb-app-hits-40000-monthly-activations\/\"><strong>FNB App hits 40,000 monthly activations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Standard Bank app cruising to 15k downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/16941\/standard-bank-app-cruising-to-15k-downloads\/\"><strong>Standard Bank app cruising to 15k downloads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Standard Bank quietly launches mobile banking app\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/16541\/standard-bank-quietly-launches-mobile-banking-app\/\"><strong>Standard Bank quietly launches mobile banking app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/16525\/fnb-banking-app-hits-transactions-landmark\/\"><strong>FNB banking app hits transactions landmark<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/16401\/nedbank-app-closer-to-launch\/\"><strong>Nedbank App closer to launch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/15451\/absa-attracts-120000-mobile-customer-each-month\/\"><strong>Absa attracts 120,000 mobile customers each month<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/9057\/rmb-launches-second-banking-app-in-sa\/\"><strong>RMB launches second banking app in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank says its banking application has reached 50,000 registered users since its launch on the 27 June 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,1],"tags":[1039,26,499],"class_list":["post-20501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-trending","tag-app","tag-headline","tag-standard-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20827,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions\/20827"}],"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=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}