Standard Bank Complains About FNB On Twitter, Receives Backlash From Public
We’ve told you a lot about the shenanigans of SA’s Big Four banks recently. Yesterday a Twitter storm erupted around Standard Bank and FNB, with the former accusing FNB of misleading advertising. The...
View ArticleVisa Study Shows South African Consumers Have High Awareness Of Fraud, But...
In an effort to increase awareness around debit and credit card safety, Visa and First National Bank (FNB) have teamed up to highlight the importance of card security to better educate consumers and...
View ArticleBank War Continues As FNB Disputes Standard Bank’s Pricing Announcement
A month ago the battle between FNB and Standard Bank was just heating up. Following Standard Bank’s complaints about FNB’s “misleading” advertising in February, the banks remain at loggerheads. In...
View ArticleWits Are 2012 Varsity Shield Champions
Wits held onto their slender two-point lead for the final ten minutes. Wits, despite being down to 13 men at one stage, secured their place in the Varsity Cup next year with a hard-fought 19-17 victory...
View ArticleBREAKING: New iPad Available In SA End Of April
Get it at FNB at the end of April! FNB have announced they will start offering the new iPad to their customers at the end of the month, the first South African company to make the new iPad available...
View ArticleMost SA Internet Users Now Bank Online, Most Banks Yet To Catch On
Recent research confirms that the vast majority of South African internet users bank online, but that banks have been very slow to make use of digital channels to meet customers’ needs. A study by...
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FNB’s GeoPayments Will Be How You’ll Pay For Stuff Now On
Look at this technology. Just look at it. What prevents you from making EFT payments for absolutely everything in your life? It’s the clunkiness of the process. You log on, you enter a ream of details,...
View ArticleFNB Slashing Prices And Reducing Fees
Kicking off on 1 July, First National Bank (FNB) will no longer charge for card purchases on a number of their accounts and will also reduce fees by up to as much as 11% in certain cases. Click through...
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FNB Responds to ‘Sh*t People Say About Investing’ Video
Following the online trend of videos to do with ‘Shit People Say,’ came the video ‘Sh*t People Say About Investing,’ featuring local people using local investing slang. The video has already been...
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FNB Customers Can Now Draw Cash From Supermarket Tills
FNB, trying to get relief from foot traffic in its branches, is now offering cash back at Pick n Pay and Shoprite Checkers. This move comes as government is placing increased pressure on banks to...
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Here Is The FNB Broadcast That The ANC Are Saying Amounts To ‘Treason’ [Video]
The ANC are freaking out all over the place about a recent FNB broadcast. They’re saying it amounts to ‘treason,’ which is pretty radical. Here is a video of the broadcast. Check it out – it’s only 3...
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ANC Youth League Calls FNB ‘Cowardly’ And Demands They Put Videos Back On...
Wow, this whole vibe seems to be going to the next level. At the moment only the first video from FNB’s campaign is on the net (see here), and according to the ANC Youth League, the rest have been...
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FNB Admits To Removing YouTube Videos – Explains Why
In today’s episode, we see the ANCYL having a go at FNB for removing their latest campaign videos from YouTube. FNB were originally defending the videos, but have now admitted to removing them. This is...
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Here Are Some Quotes From The Deleted FNB Videos That The ANC Are Freaking...
It wasn’t so much the visuals of the now deleted FNB “You Can Help” YouTube videos that the ANC are freaking out about, it’s more about what was said. We managed to get hold of a number of those...
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Friday Morning Spice
Good Luck, Prawns – South Africa Retests Over 50 Top Cyclists For EPO - Lance Armstrong’s confession has pushed South Africa’s anti-doping body to retroactively test blood samples from over 50 top...
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Monday Morning Spice
Nightclub Fire Kills 245+ People In Brazil – A fire caused by a band’s pyrotechnics display, swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving...
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Michael Jordaan Resignation Rumours, As FNB Bends For ANC
In a move described by the DA as “inappropriate groveling,” the ANC and FNB released a joint statement following their emergency meeting, which may have resulted in FNB CEO Michael Jordaan’s...
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Michael Jordaan Announces Resignation As CEO Of FNB
First National Bank’s CEO, Michael Jordaan, has announced his resignation, via Twitter. After 10 years at the helm of FNB I will step down at the end of 2013. Thanks for all your support. — Michael...
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Michael Jordaan Is The New Chairman Of Mxit
Tech Central has reported that South Africa’s most Twitter-famous CEO, Michael Jordaan has joined Mxit as Chairman of the Board. The appointment is immediate. Because Jordaan has not yet vacated his...
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An Inconvenient Sex Tape: The Gross Mismanagement Of Online Branding in South...
A very interesting thing happened yesterday and it deteriorated rapidly, as we predicted. It had to do with Land Rover, FNB, a media company called Mindshare and a sex tape. So we published an article...
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If You’re In Your 30s, You’ll Love This #bobjunior #bobt
Get ready for this trip down memory lane. Remember BOB T savings cards? And how special they made you feel? Turns out they’re still around. You’re welcome.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
TUNE IN TO THE OSCAR PISTORIUS TRIAL LIVE-STREAMING HERE FNB Under Fire For Insensitive Handicap Terrorism Tweet – FNB boss Jacques Celliers says an investigation is under way after a joke from the...
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These Are The Top 10 Most Visited Locally Owned Sites In SA
Our beautiful South Africa citizens have some interesting internet habits – and as the local digital media community evolves, SA internet users are using SA-owned sites more and more. That said, sites...
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Wednesday Morning Spice
Moody’s Downgrades Four Top South African Banks - Moody’s downgraded the credit rating of four top South African banks Tuesday, after the government was forced to bailout a troubled lender. [tlive]...
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Is Your Name Steve? Join The Protest Against FNB’s New Ad Campaign
In all fairness, I would probably protest too if my name was being used in a national ad campaign that makes my name look stupid. After 20 complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority and with an...
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This Is Why Standard Bank Are A Bunch Of Pigs @standardbankza
UPDATE: IF YOU WANT THESE PIGS TO STOP CALLING YOU, I’M AFRAID IT’S MORE WORK FOR YOU BUT IT MAY WELL WORK – CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT. I have said this many times and I still believe it to be true. Every...
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THIS IS WAR: Investec Delivers Deafening Blow To Ailing SLOW Airport Lounges
Sometimes the world works in mysterious ways, the stars align by chance and all is hunky-dory. Other times, however, events unfold in such a way that you can see there is trouble brewing. Yesterday we...
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The “Big Four” SA Banks Has Just Become The “Big Five”
I imagine the banking business is a tough nut to crack, especially when there are already four names South Africans have become familiar with over the years. Props to Capitec then, who have shown such...
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Thursday Morning Spice
Bank Closes Accounts Held By Gupta Firm – A South African company owned by the Guptas said on Wednesday that First National Bank has closed its accounts, the latest local company to shun the family due...
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FINALLY: You Can Now Renew Your Car License Disc Through Your Phone
It happens every year. You get a reminder in the post about your license disc’s expiry date, and before you know it you find yourself either sitting with a massive fine or wasting time in the line at...
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South Africa’s Top Banks (And Bank Accounts) In Terms Of Cost
As with life insurance, mobile networks or medical aid, deciding on which bank to do business with can be just as much as a headache. While the competition between banks in the country grows, with...
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How SA’s Banking Fees Shape Up Against The Rest Of The World
Guys, does anyone else feel like our banks are taking the piss? Everyone knows that we’re being charged too much to access our own money here in SA, and with the recent VAT increase at the start of...
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Why It’s Pointless Choosing One SA Bank Over Another
I’ve never fully understood why some people are loyal to any particular bank. To have the energy to actively promote one bank’s products or services over another is positively naive. It’s just not a...
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South Africans Rank Their Best And Worst Banks
The people have spoken, and the results can be found in the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) for banking report. In the 2019 report, compiled by Consulta, the term “watershed...
View ArticleWoman Filmed Relieving Herself In Front Of Customers At Jozi FNB [Video]
Staff and customers at an FNB branch in Kempton Park, Jozi, were pretty surprised to see a woman relieving herself in plain sight. The incident, which occurred last month, was caught on camera, with...
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How Much The CEOs Of South Africa’s Banks Earn In A Single Day
Whatever you do, do not work out how much you make in a day after reading this article. Trust me, it’s not worth it. South Africa’s banks have published their full annual reports for the 2018 financial...
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Friday Morning Spice
Labour Court Foils Potentially Damaging Banking Sector Strike – The Labour Court has upheld an application to prevent an unprotected strike in the banking sector scheduled for Friday 27 September....
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Why I Moved From Nedbank To FNB
To be clear, this is NOT a sponsored post. It’s just some advice that I want to share with the world… My first bank account was at Barclays (before they left the country) and I had a Bob Junior card....
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More Proof That Everyone Hates Nedbank, Absa, And Standard Bank
You’ll be hardpressed to meet an adult South African who doesn’t have at least one gripe about their bank. As regular readers of this site will know, Seth had more than a few gripes about Nedbank,...
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What FNB And The Catholic Church Have In Common
I wrote a while back about why I moved from Nedbank to FNB and to this day, I still take genuine pity on those who do not bank with FNB. Whenever someone gives me their bank details and they’re not...
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The Bank Accounts That SA’s High Rollers Use
Last year, South Africans ranked their best and worst banks. This ranking looked at the entry-level accounts that most banks have been focusing on as they try to increase their client base. But,...
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Forbes Ranks Top Five Banks In SA
[imagesource: sxc.hu] Capitec went from putting the rest of South Africa’s banks to shame in 2017, to being under investigation by Viceroy Research a few months later (they’re the guys who took down...
View ArticleSnapScan, Zapper, And Masterpass Are Not Getting On
[imagesource:here] Just a few days back, FNB was triumphantly announcing that folks could use SnapScan, as well as Zapper, to pay at retailers using its Speedpoint payment terminals, as part of the...
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SA’s Best And Worst Banks, According To Social Media
[imagesource:here] When Forbes ranked the top banks in South Africa back in June, Capitec was in top spot, having recovered from their fall from grace back in 2018 when they were in the crosshairs of...
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Ranking SA’s Best And Worst Banks By Customer Satisfaction
[imagesource: Ufuk Zizana] The pandemic has affected almost every sector of society, most notably the economy. When we entered into a hard and extended lockdown on March 27 last year, banks in South...
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Tuesday Morning Spice
FNB Is Yanking eBucks Tiers For Some, Slow Lounge Visits For Others In Big Overhaul – One large chunk of account holders will no longer have the 5-tier rewards system, where earnings and rewards...
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FirstRand CEO’s Eye-Watering Payday
[imagesource: Moneyweb] It’s been a good few days for FirstRand shareholders and CEO Alan Pullinger. FirstRand owns First National Bank, Rand Merchant Bank, and Wesbank, to name just a few, and is set...
View ArticleFNB’s Logo Redesign Torn Apart On Social Media
[imagesource: FNB] Remember when Absa redesigned its logo back in 2018? I bet the team behind that redesign still has nightmares about the days that followed, as South Africans on social media took...
View ArticleOkay, The Salaries Of SA’s Banker CEOs Are Even More Nauseating
[imagesource:theceomagazine] We thought the salaries of the insurance company CEOs in South Africa were ludicrously high… Well, get your tissues because our big bankers earn far more eye-watering...
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The Ruperts Gave 10,000 People Titles To Land And Homes Through Khaya Lam...
[imagesource:creativecommon/getty] The Freemarket Foundation’s Khaya Lam project, spearheaded by billionaire Johann Rupert and his wife Gaynor, has given 10,000 disadvantaged South Africans titles to...
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