Police are currently investigating the death of a Standard Bank employee who fell from the company’s Rosebank offices in Johannesburg last week.
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Get your tissues because our big bankers earn far more eye-watering amounts compared to SA’s insurance CEOs.
A former Standard Bank software expert managed to make off with around R6,3 million within a month while working at the financial institution.
Capitec might still be pulling ahead in the rankings, but it’s showing signs of fatigue with other banks gaining ground.
BrandsEye analysed some 500 000 social media posts to find out how South Africans really feel about our top banks.
If you’re applying for one of these bank accounts, you’re probably raking in some serious cash.
South Africans love a good rant on social media. If you analyse those rants, you’ll see a few patterns emerging.
The 2019 Fortune Global 2 000 list, decided on total revenues for the respective fiscal year, features 12 South African companies.
If you want to invest, but you’re worried about the economy after the election, these guys have some advice worth listening to.
The latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index (Sacsi) for banking report is out, and it’s not great news for Absa.
I’ve never fully understood why some people are loyal to any particular bank, especially when our options are so limited here in SA.
When it comes to ill-thought out ad campaigns and dodgy tweets from major companies, Twitter users don’t hesitate to put them on blast.
It’s common knowledge that South African banks charge us for just about everything, but here’s how we compare to the rest of the world.
The release of the Paradise Papers is just the beginning of an international take-down of wealthy individuals looking to escape paying taxes, and these are the South Africans among them.
When a Jozi man learnt that he would be losing pretty much everything he had worked for, he took his anger out on the Rosebank branch of Standard Bank.
Standard Bank was the victim of a massive transnational scam this week, with some crafty scam artists netting a fat payday.
It’s obvious that various income brackets spend differently, but just how different can that be? Here’s an exact breakdown.
They say competition is healthy, which is why the growth of another big bank here at home can only benefit us Saffas.
Standard Bank are also experiencing a little racism problem that took place over Twitter…
So what happens when your money goes walkabout and you expect those who keep it safe to help you recover it? People are angry and it seems they have good reason.
Everyone loves an underdog story and we’ve got a ripper from the Eastern Cape on our hands. This ostrich farmer isn’t about to bury his head in the sand.
We don’t like to say we told you so…but we did kind of have a rant of epic proportions last week along similar lines. It seems automated cold-calling people is just one of Standard Bank’s many problems.
I have said this many times and I still believe it to be true. Every bank can and will let you down at some stage. People who have loyalty to a particular bank are just lucky.
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Over the past week, a few very frenzied e-toll users have been complaining about SANRAL sending them SMSs which claim that they owe them money.
Moody’s announced today that, following the revision of the country’s foreign currency desposit ceiling, it had downgraded South Africa’s five biggest banks. This comes only days after the ratings agency downgraded SA’s government bond rating.
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 market research firm Columinate, which assessed consumer internet banking behaviour and satisfaction levels, suggests there is plenty of room for improvement for banks trying to connect digitally with their customers.
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 recent days FNB has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about its competitor, which it says is now attempting “to sell nonexistent products”.
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 irony? The mud-slinging quite quickly turned in the direction of Standard Bank, with Tweeters taking FNB’s side. Here’s a snapshot of what happened.