{"id":53890,"date":"2014-03-05T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53890"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T08:35:34","slug":"fnbs-huge-digital-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/53890\/fnbs-huge-digital-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB&#8217;s huge digital growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banking group FNB says it has\u00a0750,000 active users on its FNB Banking App\u00a0with volumes up 100%.<\/p>\n<p>FNB&#8217;s parent\u00a0company, First Rand announced its financial results for the interim period ended December 2013, on Tuesday (4 March).<\/p>\n<p>The group stated that as at 31 December 2013, it had over 720,000 active users, which has since increased to 750,000 in early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Answering questions relating to FNB&#8217;s digital footprint,\u00a0Sahil Mungar, head of sales and marketing, FNB Mobile and Connect, told BusinessTech: &#8220;FNB has sold over 200,000 smart devices since the launch of the smart device offer in 2011.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the transaction value processed via the App, as at 31 December 2013, FNB had processed over R40.5 billion in transaction value since inception.<\/p>\n<p>The bank provided a breakdown of its digital banking users, as at 31 December 2013. It pointed out that these numbers cannot be tallied up as customers use these channels interchangeably.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FNB Online 1.29 million active users;<\/li>\n<li>FNB Banking App 750,000 active users in SA;<\/li>\n<li>FNB Cellphone Banking 3.6 million users in SA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FNB said that electronic transactions were up 15% over the reporting period, while manual transactions were down 4%.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on FNB<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"FNB bolsters smart device portfolio\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/52683\/fnb-bolsters-smart-device-portfolio\/\"><strong>FNB bolsters smart device portfolio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FNB breaking the ceiling for banking services\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/48862\/fnb-breaking-the-ceiling-for-banking-services\/\"><strong>FNB breaking the ceiling for banking services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FNB takes investing to mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/48503\/fnb-takes-share-investing-to-mobile\/\"><strong>FNB takes investing to mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New FNB website: surprising traffic growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/42668\/new-fnb-website-surprising-traffic-growth\/\"><strong>New FNB website: surprising traffic growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Electronic, mobile fuels FNB growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/45608\/electronic-mobile-fuels-fnb-growth\/\"><strong>Electronic, mobile fuels FNB growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking group FNB says it now has 750,000 active users on its FNB Banking App with volumes up 100% since its previous interim reporting period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7547,76,26],"class_list":["post-53890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-first-rand","tag-fnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890","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=53890"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53992,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890\/revisions\/53992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}