Programmable bank account Root launching next year

[silkenphoenixx]

I like the explanation of the use of "have been", me being Afrikaans and easily messing up tenses. *hides*

f2wohf is pretty much right, "have been" can mean "in the past" or "currently ongoing" depending on whether it's followed by a present-continuous verb:

I have been looking for a new flat. (I started a while ago and I am still doing it.)

vs

I have been to Disneyland. (It happened a while ago but it's probably not happening anymore.)

Anyway, back to the original topic. From the original article:

High-potential applications developed in Root can also be launched to all Standard Bank customers through Standard Bank’s dedicated API strategy.

This seems slightly more useful than what I originally understood this to be, but it still means that whatever you program needs to get Standard Bank's attention before you can monetise it, unless you sell your code directly to other Root account holders.