{"id":41709,"date":"2013-07-10T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=41709"},"modified":"2013-07-10T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:18:32","slug":"absa-app-availabile-for-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/41709\/absa-app-availabile-for-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa app now availabile for BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Financial services group Absa Bank<\/a> has on Wednesday (10 July) unveiled its app for BlackBerry<\/a> devices.<\/p>\n

Launched in mid-April,\u00a0Absa said its app would be the first real, native financial services app for smartphones and tablets in South Africa.<\/p>\n

“The App has already provided through the more than 133,000 downloads by customers on to Apple<\/a>, Android<\/a> and BlackBerry Z10 devices,” it said in a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n

“From today (10 July)\u00a0 the customised App for BlackBerry devices running BB5, BB6 and BB7 operating systems is available in the BlackBerry App World,” the bank said.<\/p>\n

Arrie Rautenbach<\/a> head of Retail Bank said of the app: \u201cIt adds many aspects of traditional transactional services like the ability to quickly check account balances, transfer funds between accounts, pay beneficiaries, perform a CashSend transaction and also purchase airtime for any network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rautenbach pointed out that the App is available for both individual and business customers and will permit users to link multiple BlackBerrys, smartphones or tablets to a single profile or multiple banking profiles (business and personal accounts) to a single device.<\/p>\n

As a security feature, devices are required to be linked to an Absa Online banking profile.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a security feature to ensure that no unauthorised attempts can be made to access a customer\u2019s banking profile via the App. Devices that are lost or changed can de-authorised while new devices that are identified by the App will be required to be and authorised by the customer,\u201d Rautenbach said.<\/p>\n

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Absa unveils banking app<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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