Businessman Dr Iqbal Surve. (Photo by Gallo Images/Phill Magakoe)
AYO Technology Solution says it will make use of alternative third-party payment solutions, once FNB closes its transactional bank accounts.
AYO had lodged a legal challenge against FNB, but a court had struck it off the roll due to a lack of urgency.
AYO s board met and will implement a seven-point plan to ensure the sustainability of the business in the coming months.
AYO Technology Solutions says it will make use of alternative third-party payment solutions following the closure of its transactional bank accounts with FNB.
AYO, which is linked to businessman Dr Iqbal Survé, who founded African Equity Empowerment Investments (AEEI) - one of its shareholders - previously said FNB did not provide reasons for the account closures.
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Ayo Technology Solutions, the company indirectly controlled by Iqbal Survé, has filed an urgent high court application to stop FNB from terminating its transaction banking facilities, Ayo said on Thursday evening.
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Absa has cut all ties with companies directly or indirectly controlled by Iqbal Survé s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings.
The bank says keeping Sekunjalo companies as clients presents intolerable reputational, commercial, and legal risks .
The decision was kept secret for seven months – until a chance remark in Parliament two weeks ago.
Everything media mogul Iqbal Survé touches is anathema to one of South Africa s big four banks – the same bank that led the charge in cutting off the Gupta family from the banking system in 2016.
AmaBhungane has established that on 27 August last year, Absa sent letters to every client directly or indirectly controlled by Survé s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings, giving 60 days notice of termination of services.