{"id":556826,"date":"2022-02-10T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=556826"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:42:16","slug":"business-talk-fnb-ceo-jacques-celliers-discusses-the-future-of-banking-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/556826\/business-talk-fnb-ceo-jacques-celliers-discusses-the-future-of-banking-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 FNB CEO Jacques Celliers discusses the future of banking in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Celliers is the Chief Executive Officer of First National Bank \u2013 a position he has held since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Celliers studied at Stellenbosch University, and also received an MBA from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.<\/p>\n<p>As FNB CEO, he has recently been focused on steering FNB and its customers through a tough economic climate and is excited about the future of banking in a post-pandemic South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In this Episode of Business Talk, Celliers discusses how FNB has adapted to support its clients\u2019 evolving needs and interests.<\/p>\n<p>He also explains how he expects the banking industry will continue to evolve once the pandemic is truly behind us.<\/p>\n<p>Celliers talks about the exciting awards FNB has recently won \u2013 including Best SME Bank in South Africa and Africa at the Global SME Finance Awards, and Most Valuable Brand in the annual Kantar BrandZ rankings.<\/p>\n<p>He unpacks why FNB deserved to win these titles and explains why this recognition is so important.<\/p>\n<p>Celliers also discusses FNB\u2019s focus on innovation, touching on two of FNB\u2019s newest SME solutions \u2013 FNB WebStore and FNB Android Speedpoint device.<\/p>\n<p>He then identifies his key theme for the banking industry in 2022, and concludes by discussing FNB\u2019s future plans for 2022 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monoclesolutions.com\/en-za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=BusinessTalk&amp;utm_campaign=Avery+Feb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to learn more about Monocle Solutions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIkDsuxIVC4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, Celliers discusses how FNB has adapted to support its clients\u2019 evolving needs and interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":556846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[15578,76],"class_list":["post-556826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-business-talk","tag-fnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556826","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=556826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698969,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556826\/revisions\/698969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}