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South Africa: Standard Bank, SAP roll out mobile banking service

Thursday 14 February 2013 09:57 CET | News

South African financial institution Standard Bank has entered an agreement with SAP, an enterprise application software provider, to launch the AccessBanking offering in South Africa.

The offering includes the AccessAccount, a transactional banking account based on SAP Mobile Platform. SAP Mobile Platform integrates SAP and third-party back-end systems, which allows users to create mobile applications to extend the information from enterprise systems onto mobile devices.

With the app, sales agents can sign-up via a portable mobile device and open a bank account for customers. Once customers have the AccessAccount, they are able to perform transactions such as person-to-person transfers and purchasing of electricity and airtime through their mobile phones at any time. Customers can also perform transactions such as cash-in, cash-out and money transfers at Standard Bank AccessPoints, which operate through partnerships with informal traders already running businesses in their communities.

In recent news, Standard Bank has launched a contactless card payment technology, issuing its credit and cheque cards with a tap-and-go payment method.


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Keywords: Standard Bank, SAP, mobile banking, South Africa
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