First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) through its corporate social responsibility arm,First National Bank Botswana Foundation (FNBBF) has launched a Gender
RMB banks on e-Commerce
Monday, 10 May 2021
On an annual basis, trillions of US dollars exchange hands electronically through various e-ecommerce platforms. These transactions mostly happen between buyers and sellers who are often thousands of miles apart.
For decades, banks have been at the forefront of ensuring both clients and sellers get the best form of services available, no matter the distance that separates them. In Botswana, Rand Merchant Bank Botswana has found it fitting to be part of this all-important payment platform called e-Commerce. RMB is a division of Botswana Stock Exchange listed lender, First National Bank Botswana. The latter is a subsidiary of FNB, a JSE listed banking giant.
RMB banks on e-Commerce
Monday, 10 May 2021
On an annual basis, trillions of US dollars exchange hands electronically through various e-ecommerce platforms. These transactions mostly happen between buyers and sellers who are often thousands of miles apart.
For decades, banks have been at the forefront of ensuring both clients and sellers get the best form of services available, no matter the distance that separates them. In Botswana, Rand Merchant Bank Botswana has found it fitting to be part of this all-important payment platform called e-Commerce. RMB is a division of Botswana Stock Exchange listed lender, First National Bank Botswana. The latter is a subsidiary of FNB, a JSE listed banking giant.
Agency look to up its digital game
In a bid to keep up-to-date with the ever-evolving digital world of today, Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) has introduced the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD).
The platform is an outcome of the agency’s 2018-2021 strategy to improve customer experience through the use of technology.
Speaking at the USSD launch, CEDA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Thabo Thamane said the organisation is aware of the need to expand its technology platforms, especially in the midst of Covid-19.
“As a result, the agency is implementing a suitable and relevant ICT strategy that will guide the design and implementation of critical technologies that support our current and future business model, and are responsive to today’s customer,” declared Thamane, adding the ICT strategy is aligned to CEDA’s ambition of creating a centre of excellence for Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMME) financing and development.
Botswana Guardian
BG reporter
Friday, 16 April 2021
First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) is better known as a bank of many firsts in Botswana’s cutthroat banking sector. Perhaps the bank’s biggest invention to date has been the FNB App which has surely defined and transformed the way banking is done since it was first launched more than 5 years ago. “We started working on the App in 2013 and it was successfully launched in 2014,” remembered the bank’s Head of Digital Banking, Gaogakwe Mokobi.
In an exclusive interview with Botswana Guardian on Tuesday, he explained how the App came into being. He stated that before the FNB App came into existence, the bank, which is the biggest in the market, has been on a digital banking journey which also saw them launching cell phone and internet banking. “We introduced the App to our customers, having realised that there was a gap, cellphone banking had too many steps and internet banking wasn’t as mobile as our custome