Happy new Financial Year to all at FirstRand .. so cool to start a new FY heading into Spring as the world around us starts opening up again .. can’t wait to see the Chairman’s report of the last period tho 😎 .. grateful for the monster efforts by all .. 👊
Spent the morning with our new set of grads .. I offered them each my job in exchange for their youth .. so far no takers .. must be the job 😉 .. what a privilege to have such a diverse, competent and inspirational bunch choose us for the start of their own journeys.
Been a very busy April for our army keeping systems up and helping with all the relief offers .. (FNB, RMB, WESBANK, FIRSTRAND, DA) .. grateful for proper tools to use and for amazing colleagues .. 💪
There are drum rolls, and then there are drum rolls ... FNB has been named BrandZ Most Valuable Brand in South Africa 2020! ... Thanx to our loyal customers, committed staff, and to SA for trusting us to HELP .. 🙏
Having coffee at our special ‘clubhouse’ this am .. grateful to be on the field with an awesome team across FNB, RMB, WESBANK, DA, FIRSTRAND etc. for this year’s crazy season lying ahead .. next stop Dec 🐇🎩
ready to rumble .. Results-Day today .. wearing a blazer for occasion .. 😎 .. report card will show just how much HELP our awesome team was able to give our amazing customers and communities during one of the most challenging & exciting years since we opened our doors in 1838 🙏
The hardest and most important award of them all .. thank you for the recognition .. but realizing too that we have plenty more to do .. journey continues .. 🙏
Monster meaningful innovation .. Global shares .. for everyone .. on
#FNBApp
.. Amazon Apple Netflix Tesla .. from R10 without taking money offshore ..
#RealHelp
😎
Monster news .. we have successfully paid out the first batch of the Government’s SME Loans today .. grateful to be part of helping to get the relief out to qualifying businesses ..
I don’t often wear a tie .. 😎 .. but today is the 185th day of ‘Results show and tell’ (since 1838) for this little business of ours .. lights, fresh lipstick 😉 & action ! .. thank you to you all for being part of our ‘special family’ .. 🙏
Big day .. Today our 183rd time since 1838 we stand up and explain to stakeholders what we were able to produce the past financial year .. holding thumbs you approve and we make you proud .. 🙏
Shout-out to all honest and hardworking businesses in the ‘frontline’ of the economy trying their best to keep the lights on .. and a plea to all those in charge of policies to roll away even the smallest of obstacles for them ..
#buildconfidence
proud of
#teamFNB
.. weeks of very little sleep for banking and tech teams working on
#helpfulness
.. at this stage finalized 200000 restructured agreements for 50k customers in Retail and 12000 restructured agreements for 6k customers in Commercial .. still going strong
& then on another random day in the universe some people get a legendary send off after years of service .. go well Laurie Dippenaar 👊 .. last FNB Board meeting today .. thanx for the honourable inspiration and apologies for all the stress we caused 😎
Closed off Exco today .. reflected just how much better the movie is going into May this year than it was this time last year .. grateful for awesome teams, customers & partners .. all going according to plan and growth momentum building steam .. next stop Mars 😎
Quick thank you to everyone (both those behind the scenes as well as those in the front lines) who are making magic keeping the lights on and the wheels turning .. go big .. 👌
Not everyday u get lift the average heart rate of each person in a nation up nicely over lunch all at once .. with only one team actually doing any exercise .. go bokke 🎩🐇👊
Some positive news to end the week on .. last few days of speedpoint volumes show card aquiring volumes back to similar daily volumes we saw the weeks before we went into lockdown .. early days but holding thumbs momentum is maintained
Leadership conference day .. privilege to work with such magic colleagues who are all fired up to make a difference out there and building an even better business year after year despite all the curve balls thrown at them 🦾
Sanibonani nonke .. Just a random day taking random selfie here at the lifts of exec floor in FNB .. with someone I have not yet met here before .. one day I want to be like him ..
#coolplacetoworkfor
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What to expect from
#FNB
this year? .. monster innovation & exponential helpfulness as we play our part in support of our awesome customers who continue to make sense of the messy environments across all countries we operate in .. smiles all round .. next stop 2021 👊
In case you missed it .. latest Ombud report .. won’t rest until we have 0 but shout out to our magic teams who sweat customer service so hard ..
#exponentialhelpfulnessatplay
.. 👊
#exponentialness
.. ran a cool/monster live update to 12k team-members all at once this am .. this place rocks .. 😎btw remember the other highlight for the week SpaceX launch tomorrow 🙏
Party is over 😎 .. let’s get cracking .. our 183rd year of
#FNBHELP
.. team focussed on making our awesome customers & shareholders proud with even more world-class meaningful innovation across Insure, Invest, Transact, Credit and Connectivity needs .. please push us hard !
Today a different cool launch 😎.. ribbon cutting our new offices in Pietermaritzburg 👊 .. refreshed commitment to local market experiences for customers and magic-making teams on the ground .. much nicer than last year’s trip post riots .. 😉
Cool stats .. last 12 months FNB funded more than 32k women owned businesses advancing more than R9bn (up14%) .. with lowest credit loss ratio .. proud of our ladies in business .. 💪
Check what the eBucks and FNB teams have put together for all of you traveling on the highways .. all detail on FNB App under the eBucks applet .. exciting
Something special to show your kids .. Kenneth was there yesterday when team processed the final batch of cheques thru our machines .. & switched off .. fond memories 😎
Cool stats from exco pack this month .. FNB carbon footprint in branches down 50% over last 5 yrs .. & .. our solar on campuses now produce 5,8 MwH per annum
It’s budget time at FNB .. Thought I had a full plate .. but doubling our efforts/plans this am .. if Elon can tackle twitter on top of SpaceX, Tesla etc we can all dream bigger .. 👊
This year we celebrate 180 years since our ‘day zero’ in 1838 as the Eastern Province Bank in Grahamstown .. good luck chaps 😜 ..
@YatinNarsai
@MichaelJordaan
.. see you in 2198 😎
Super honoured! .. Thank you to our amazing customers for your continued support 🧡 .. humbled to be recognised as the leading SA Financial Services brand for the 3rd year in a row.
#LoveFNB
@Kantar_AME
Sometimes ‘mobile’ is not about a phone .. check our branch on wheels unit on the way this am to support a community where a branch is being revamped 😉
My 2020 resolution .. starting the process to move on from an expired means of communication between customers and employees .. “email” .. too clumsy, packed with fraud risk & monster spam frustrations .. our platform-based messaging maturing fast .. 👊
Cool stuff .. our first SmartID issued at the new capability inside the Burgersfort branch this week (courtesy of HomeAffairs) .. pensioner lady our first customer .. 👌
So our books have just closed on our 180th financial year-end (since 1838) 😎 ... Happy new Financial Year to all at FirstRand .. another big year ahead to inspire, innovate & build trust .. & thanx to all our sweetspot customers, partners, shareholders for the awesome support !
Ready to rumble .. coolest and bestest little business in the whole wide world having our leadership conference today .. “monster leap from 2 decades of digital innovation into a new era of customer-centric data-driven platform-based disruption” .. who said banking is boring? 😎
Good morning from London .. other than the vaccine proof given in SA before coming here there is no sign of covid-impact left .. massive crowds, packed streets full of shoppers/tourists, full restaurants & public transport .. no masks & smiles all over .. let’s do it 😉
2 cool records thus far .. just hit new mainframe record of 2850 transactions per second .. also team reports eBucks traffic thus far up 7x on black friday ‘18
#FRplatform
coolness .. our staff now use our banking app for extended employee related functions too .. uberisation
@play
.. no more need to sign-in to other front-ends .. 🎩🐇
Reporting back .. day 1 behavior .. we are traveling back to JHB tonight .. plenty confident swaggering, compatriot nodding and winking visible all over 😉 .. clear people trying to pretend humility, but it’s not working .. 😎 ..
#magic
Big day today for team-FNB as we host SARB at BankCity .. we don’t take it for granted the value of having a stable and world-class regulator .. industries struggle when they are not given solid & sustainable frameworks within which to operate
monster day 💪 .. FNB Board .. taking a proper team photo afterwards for our archives so we can square off against the teams who handled our special business during the world wars ..
#grateful
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Results day for us today .. hold thumbs 😉 .. cool vibe song to kick it off with driving in to office .. wishing all a great day .. tnx for all the support 🙏
Ready to rumble .. monster in-person stage day for our leadership teams in Sandton .. nobody ‘working’ from home today 😎 .. relieved from fiddling with mute/wifi/camera/share buttons for a day 😉
#BOOM
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Quick note wishing all a magic ‘23 .. all doors are open .. NB for all to please dream big 💪 & make sure you lean hard on us
@teamFirstRand
/RMB/FNB/Wesbank etc to help you thrive .. exponential helpfulness @ play 👊 .. ( .. apologizing in advance for our wobbles too 😎)
And just like that 1000s of our country’s best and most mobile talent will now most likely reconsider plans they had to leave SA to build futures for the loved ones elsewhere .. here’s to us all now dreaming big and making it count 👊
📢 Immediate Payments (real-time clearing) fees will be REDUCED to R10 for payments less than R3000 from 1 July on the FNB Gold Business Account!💃 🕺
#LoveFNB
#FNBBusiness
Happy Spring day .. shout out to all our awesome customers planning new growth initiatives .. make sure you push us hard to help you grow as the new season unfolds .. 😉