{"id":297020,"date":"2019-02-04T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=297020"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:02:07","slug":"fnb-launches-new-smart-option-easy-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/297020\/fnb-launches-new-smart-option-easy-account\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB launches new Smart Option Easy account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has launched a new Smart Option bundle for its entry-level Easy bank account.<\/p>\n<p>The account is aimed at consumers who earn between R1,000 to R7,000 per month, with holders\u00a0paying a monthly account fee of R65.<\/p>\n<p>It includes a number of additional features including 24-hour telephonic professional medical advice from a team of registered nurses who will assist account holders to manage chronic, life-threatening, maternity and other everyday medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Other benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic financial planning, debt management, garnishee support, and debt counselling from qualified financial advisors;<\/li>\n<li>Telephonic assistance by professional attorneys and paralegals to advise consumers on wills, pension, third-party claims and labour matters from Monday to Friday during work hours;<\/li>\n<li>R3,000 worth of both deposits and withdrawals at FNB ATMs;<\/li>\n<li>R15 worth of airtime every month;<\/li>\n<li>Free card swipes;<\/li>\n<li>A free savings account;<\/li>\n<li>10 free online purchase transactions and free balance enquiries on FNB\u2019s electronic channels such as the FNB App, Online and Cellphone Banking;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/295558\/absa-warns-of-upsurge-in-digital-banking-fraud-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Absa warns of upsurge in digital banking fraud cases<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has launched its new Easy Smart Option bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[76,26],"class_list":["post-297020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-fnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297020","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=297020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297044,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297020\/revisions\/297044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}