{"id":172536,"date":"2016-07-19T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=172536"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:25:55","slug":"absa-launches-mastercard-masterpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/172536-absa-launches-mastercard-masterpass.html","title":{"rendered":"Absa launches MasterCard MasterPass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has launched the MasterCard MasterPass app for clients in South Africa, allowing them to make payments via a virtual wallet.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone application will be called\u00a0Absa MasterPass, and can be used where\u00a0MasterPass payments are accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Absa MasterPass App gives people the power to make purchases using the digital wallet on their smartphones, without needing to carry their bank cards with them,&#8221; said Absa.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Bank teamed up with MasterCard to become the first company in the Middle East and Africa region to offer MasterPass in <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/106217-standard-bank-launches-masterpass-payment-app.html\"><strong>July 2014<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0MasterPass app is available for Android and iOS devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More banking news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/172378-absa-launches-new-banking-website-and-app.html\">Absa launches new banking website and app<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/171275-how-your-chip-and-pin-bank-card-gets-skimmed-and-your-money-stolen.html\">How your chip-and-PIN bank card gets skimmed and your money stolen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has launched the MasterCard MasterPass app for clients in South Africa, allowing them to make payments via a virtual wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145197,"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":[10106],"tags":[2186,36,25969],"class_list":["post-172536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-active","tag-masterpass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172536"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172538,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172536\/revisions\/172538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}