{"id":321041,"date":"2019-06-03T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=321041"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:03:19","slug":"rain-partners-with-tymebank-over-sim-card-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/321041\/rain-partners-with-tymebank-over-sim-card-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain partners with Tymebank over SIM card distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain has partnered with Tymebank to test the distribution its SIM cards at Tyme kiosks, making it easier for its clients to sign up for a new service.<\/p>\n<p>Rain and Tymebank have a common shareholder, African Rainbow Capital, which means the two companies enjoy a strong collaborative relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Tymebank has a national network of manned Tyme kiosks at Pick n Pay and Boxer stores across South Africa, which is of value to Rain as a physical distribution network.<\/p>\n<p>Tyme kiosks personnel are already equipped to do FICA verification for banking clients, which means it is easy to add the RICA process at these kiosks.<\/p>\n<p>Rain CEO Willem Roos told <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/308373-rain-partners-with-tymebank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband<\/a> that the RICA process is performed by the Tyme Ambassador manning the kiosk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn due course we hope to have our eRICA process implemented at the kiosks, which would mean that Rain customers can follow a seamless process in most Pick n Pays and walk out connected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roos explained that Rain hopes to scale the current distribution trial to most Tyme kiosks over the next few months.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/313100\/tymebank-is-adding-as-many-as-4000-customers-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TymeBank is adding as many as 4,000 customers a day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain has partnered with Tymebank to test the distribution its SIM cards at Tyme kiosks, making it easier for its clients to sign up for a new service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":281675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[26,11939,13455],"class_list":["post-321041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-headline","tag-rain","tag-tymebank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321041","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321055,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321041\/revisions\/321055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}