FNB has launched its popular banking app on Windows 8 phones, available for download as of today (31 October 2013).<\/p>\n
Anyone with a Windows 8 phone can download the FNB Banking App for Windows 8 phone, but you need to be an FNB customer to make full use of the traditional banking services.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday (30 October) Hypertext reported<\/a> that the absent Windows Phone application would be coming within \u201cdays not weeks\u201d, citing Mark Strathmore, Head of Developer Ecosystem for Nokia South & East Africa, who tweeted images of the application running on a Nokia Lumia device.<\/p>\n In June 2012, it was reported that FNB was developing a dedicated banking app for the Windows Phone 7 platform. In September of that year, the bank said that it would look at developing the app for Windows Phone 8, instead.<\/p>\n The bank\u2019s app eventually launched on the Windows 8 platform for tablets, but remained absent from Windows Phone.<\/p>\n Former head of FNB Connect ISP and Business Operations, Farren Roper explained the app\u2019s absence at the time by noting that the bank would only consider a Windows Phone app if there was enough demand for it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why there\u2019s no FNB Windows Phone app<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore on FNB and Windows<\/h3>\n