{"id":11745,"date":"2010-03-11T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-11T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:59:00","slug":"paypal-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/11745-paypal-coming-to-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Paypal coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks the local Internet has been abuzz with speculation that First National Bank is planning to bring <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/11418.html\">Paypal to local shores<\/a>.&nbsp; The news first emerged in February via microblogging platform Twitter that FNB is in discussions with Paypal to bring the online banking service to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>First National Bank today invited journalists to an event where Michael Jordaan, CEO of FNB, and senior executives from Paypal, will discuss how they&#8217;re working together to make global eCommerce faster and easier for the South African market.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the partnership will only be revealed on 25 March, but this invitation all but confirms that local consumers can look forward to getting access to a much wider range of Paypal services in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>To date local consumers could make online payments via Paypal, but could not accept funds and deposit them into a local credit card account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?220675-Paypal-coming-to-SA\"><strong>Paypal in SA<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of speculation, FNB has now indicated that it is bringing Paypal to SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}