{"id":3139,"date":"2012-01-18T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2012-01-18T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T08:54:43","slug":"fnb-mobile-banking-records-25m-transactions-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/3139\/fnb-mobile-banking-records-25m-transactions-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB mobile banking records 25m transactions in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307757-FNB-First-National-Bank\" target=\"_blank\">First National Bank<\/a> (FNB) said on Wednesday that its mobile banking channel processed in excess of 25 million transactions in December 2011 &#8211; with a transaction value of over R2.7 billion, up from R1.7 billion over the same period in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The bank boasts more than 3.5 million Cellphone Banking users.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307755-Ravesh-Ramlakan\" target=\"_blank\">Ravesh Ramlakan<\/a>, CEO FNB Cellphone Banking Solutions says the growth of the service is due to its simplicity and the convenience that it offers customers.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 3.5 million Cellphone Banking customers, more than 70% fall between the ages of 18 and 40, and earn less than R100, 000 per annum, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>During the festive season more than 600,000 visitors accessed FNB\u2019s mobi site.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in March 2005, FNB has taken Cellphone Banking into some of its African subsidiaries, including Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Swaziland and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the current take-up of Cellphone Banking in the market, we plan to introduce the service to more countries during 2012,\u201d said Ramlakan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First National Bank (FNB) said on Wednesday that its mobile banking channel processed in excess of 25 million transactions in December 2011 with a transaction value of over R2.7 billion, up from R1.7 billion over the same period in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,739,76,773],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-first-national-bank","tag-fnb","tag-mobile-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}