{"id":45276,"date":"2013-09-04T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=45276"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:57:50","slug":"absa-takes-insurance-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/45276\/absa-takes-insurance-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa takes insurance online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has announced that its 1.3 million online banking clients will be the first in South Africa to have access to fully integrated online insurance.<\/p>\n<p>With immediate effect, the bank says its clients will have access to a launch suite of six core short-term and life insurance and investment products \u2013 all on a single, secure platform.<\/p>\n<p>Absa clients will be in a position to apply for and manage short-term insurance policies to cover residential buildings, household contents and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, life insurance, funeral cover and credit protection can be serviced and will be available for purchase through Absa Online.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive for Absa Financial Services Willie Lategan, said: \u201cWe are excited about the first mover advantage this integrated online insurance platform gives us. It demonstrates our commitment to being relevant to our customers and underscores our quest to become Africa\u2019s \u2018Go-To\u2019 bank. Our customers want convenience and we have delivered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In future they can interact, transact, view and amend their policies online at any time of the day and week. Our customers will get a differentiated and holistic digital experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Absa<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Absa explains mobile payment device delay\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/44634\/absa-explains-mobile-payment-device-delay\/\"><strong>Absa explains mobile payment device delay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Absa expands mobile NFC trial\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/43822\/absa-expands-mobile-nfc-trial\/\"><strong>Absa expands mobile NFC trial<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA bank charges compared\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/44486\/sa-bank-charges-compared\/\"><strong>SA bank charges compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Absa sees big drop in SA banking customers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/43220\/absa-sees-big-drop-in-sa-banking-customers\/\"><strong>Absa sees big drop in SA banking customers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa says it has launched South Africa&#8217;s first fully integrated online insurance platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[29,25],"class_list":["post-45276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276","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=45276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45277,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276\/revisions\/45277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}