{"id":869886,"date":"2026-08-12T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=869886"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:53:12","slug":"good-news-for-standard-bank-customers-in-south-africa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/869886\/good-news-for-standard-bank-customers-in-south-africa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Standard Bank customers in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Banking group Standard Bank has now rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardbank.co.za\/southafrica\/personal\/products-and-services\/ways-to-bank\/self-service-banking\/get-your-smart-id-or-passport\"><strong>Smart ID services to 100 branches<\/strong><\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group reached the milestone in partnership with the Department of Home Affairs as part of the latter&#8217;s push to digitalise services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, the rollout with South Africa&#8217;s major banks has already surpassed 300 branches offering Smart ID services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Standard Bank, many of the group&#8217;s activated branches are in rural and underserved communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn many of the communities where we have expanded these services, residents previously had to travel long distances simply to apply for or replace an identity document,&#8221; the bank said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Access to something as fundamental as an ID should not be determined by geography.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DHA Minister Leon Schreiber said the latest milestone is moving the department toward its goal of eliminating the green bar-coded ID book across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the old ID document is prone to fraud, with the Smart ID being more secure, and the digital push also helping to end the era of long queues at Home Affairs offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since launching and expanding its Smart ID capability, Standard Bank has processed close to 50,000 Smart ID applications, reflecting the strong demand for more convenient access to Home Affairs services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having reached the 100-branch milestone, the bank is now focused on the next phase of expansion, with plans to nearly double its Smart ID footprint before the end of 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By year-end, Standard Bank expects to process more than three times the total volume handled to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bank is also working towards introducing additional DHA services through its branch network before the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The digital partnership is currently only enabled for Smart ID services, with banks catering exclusively to their own clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longer-term plan is for Passport services to be added, as well as banking app integration and home-delivery services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking group Standard Bank has now rolled out Smart ID services to 100 branches in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":851127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"failed","_sma_x_autopost_error":"Instagram publishing failed: Instagram returned HTTP 400: Media ID is not available","_sma_x_post_id":"2087462606680318081","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2173874823432917","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[17969,6230,499],"class_list":["post-869886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-dha","tag-smart-id","tag-standard-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869886","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=869886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869891,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869886\/revisions\/869891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}