{"id":550716,"date":"2022-01-17T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=550716"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:32:32","slug":"fnb-earns-accolade-of-best-sme-bank-in-sa-and-rest-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/550716\/fnb-earns-accolade-of-best-sme-bank-in-sa-and-rest-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB earns accolade of Best SME bank in SA and rest of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As SMEs tackle pandemic-induced challenges, FNB\u2019s approach to helping them is being recognised on the global stage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ddm\/trackclk\/N1187025.3278445TOUCH-DIRECTBUY\/B26577486.325748286;dc_trk_aid=518108926;dc_trk_cid=164923071;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=;ltd=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to learn more about FNB.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bank has been bestowed the accolade of \u2018Best SME Bank in South Africa and Africa\u2019 at the Global Finance SME Bank Awards 2021 and received an honourable mention in the \u2018Best Bank for Women Entrepreneurs\u2019 category at the Global SME Finance Awards 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Celliers, FNB CEO, says, &#8220;We are humbled to be recognised for helping our clients with platform-based capabilities for \u2018ease of doing business\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our success in the SME market stems from our ability to innovate and deliver meaningful solutions that truly address the day-to-day challenges of starting, running, and growing a business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This ranges from helping an entrepreneur register a business, open a bank account, making and accepting payments, retrieve financial statements, as well as assist them in unlocking opportunities in credit, insurance, and investments through our big data capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through our world-class interfaces like the FNB App and Online Banking Enterprise, we cater for the entire SME value chain, including clients with side-hustles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As businesses are increasingly relying on digital, we are proud to be enabling our clients to manage their profiles and administration, authentication and fraud prevention on our trusted digital platform,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>FNB\u2019s unique ability to keep abreast of the needs of businesses is demonstrated through its ever-expanding ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s rapidly growing digital marketplace on the FNB App gives businesses that provide home and professional services access to a market of over 4 million potential customers.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, FNB provides free business support through tools such as Fundaba on the FNB App, where clients can learn about entrepreneurship and how to run a business.<\/p>\n<p>The bank also invests vast resources and collaborates with like-minded partners to support women-owned or led businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For over 183 years, we\u2019ve remained committed to continuously supporting our clients through ups and downs on their business journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the challenges in the operating environment, the agility of our platform business enables us to consistently deliver contextual services to support our clients,&#8221; concludes Celliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As SMEs tackle pandemic-induced challenges, FNB\u2019s approach to helping them is being recognised on the global stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":550722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-550716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-fnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550716","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550724,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550716\/revisions\/550724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}