ABSA threatens to close Zuma’s wife’s bank account due to “unexplained millions” – Report
ABSA has reportedly threatened to close an account held by President Jacob Zuma’s wife Tobeka Madiba-Zuma due to “unexplained millions of rand” going through it, according to the Sunday Times.
Barclays will sell 22% of its shares in Barclays Africa
Barclays has announced its intention to sell 187 million ordinary shares in Barclays Africa Group, which represents approximately 22% of Barclays Africa’s issued share capital.
ABSA and Standard Bank face big fight over Internet banking fraud
Several people, who have each lost large amounts of money due to Internet banking fraud, are taking their fight to ABSA and Standard Bank – with legal action on the cards.
Absa sticking with SMS and USSD, despite SIM-swap fraud
SIM-swap fraud remains a problem in South Africa, with news emerging in October that the Hawks were investigating a criminal syndicate which had infiltrated mobile operators.
Absa MasterCard 3D Secure downtime
Absa clients have reported that they are unable to shop online with their MasterCard credit cards, as the 3D Secure system is offline.
Absa closes accounts for suspected arms deal payments
Absa has closed the bank accounts of a businessman accused of receiving suspicious payments as part of South Africa’s controversial arms deal.
Hey guys, anybody else having a problem with the ABSA Banking App?
The app says my device is rooted but it's definitely not a rooted device, app was working fine a few days ago.
Absa launches MasterCard MasterPass
Absa has launched the MasterCard MasterPass app for clients in South Africa, allowing them to make payments via a virtual wallet.
It seems like the option to directly print a proof of payment after you did an EFT is no longer available with ABSA's Internet Banking.
The only way to get it now is to have it emailed to you, which attracts a banking fee.
Can anyone else verify that they are seeing the same?
Twitter banking is safe: Absa
Absa has assured customers of the safety of its new ChatBanking platform that enables banking via social network Twitter.
I write this today to try possibly understand, or expose, the bond originator process we have in SA.
There is no naming and shaming here, I am merely a ?? :wtf::confused: ?? person where it comes to bond originators after this experience.
I got an offer to purchase, started the process...
Does anyone know how this is possible?
A week ago we received a new credit card and a secondary card linked to the same account from ABSA via courier.
The envelope was still sealed as it should have been and no evidence of tampering was present.
The primary card was only used once at an ATM...
Hi All,
Noticed some issues with 3D Secure this afternoon around 18:00, whilst busy doing online shopping with my ABSA cards. Contacted the vendor and they advised that the Bank declined the transactions on both my cards, with no error note. I immediately went to check the accounts, and it...
Absa Internet banking security concerns
Absa has stated that clients are not at risk from the security flaws Qualys SSL Labs lists for one of the bank’s domains.
Hi Guys, I need help. I called ABSA in the second week of December, to negotiate the interest rate of my personal loan. The consultant advised she will log a query for me and get back to me. Nobody called me, neither did my interest rate change. ABSA did however changed my debit order date from...