An update to FNB’s Banking App now enables prospective clients to open an account – start to finish – using the mobile application.<\/p>\n
This functionality was previously only available through the banks’s app for tablets, the bank said.<\/p>\n
“Customers can now open cheque accounts, credit cards and investment accounts from the convenience of the FNB Banking App for both smartphones and tablets.”<\/p>\n
The following accounts can now be opened via the mobile app:<\/p>\n
The update also adds some other new functionality to the app, as well as giving the visual interface a makeover with a new look and feel.<\/p>\n
FNB has launched SWIFT Payments on the FNB Banking App, allowing customers to receive payments from abroad from their smartphones and app users will now be able to get pre-approved loans, accounts and investments offered to them as soon as they login, without having to search for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this new feature we can ensure that customers using our App only receive personalised and relevant product offers,\u201d said Giuseppe Virgillito, head of Banking App, FNB Mobile and Connect.<\/p>\n
A new eBucks menu also lets customers check balances, reward levels and more, the bank said.<\/p>\n
Over the last year, the FNB Banking App has added a number of new features, such as the ability to purchase iTunes codes for customers or as gifts.<\/p>\n
Share Investing and Stock broking was introduced in October last year, allowing users to trade shares, equities and view other instruments in real time.<\/p>\n
FNB launched its banking app in July 2011, and was first to market with the banking channel.<\/p>\n
All of South Africa’s consumer banks have since launched mobile app offerings: Nedbank and Standard Bank in 2012, Absa in 2013, and Capitec most recently in June 2014.<\/p>\n
The RMB Private Banking Smartphone App has also been upgraded to a new look and feel, the group noted.<\/p>\n
FNB says strong appetite for GeoPayments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n