PRICING GUIDE

Personal Banking

The One Account is an innovative facility that meets all your banking needs. This single facility, secured by your home, fulfils all the functions of a cheque account, overdraft, personal loan and home loan. It’s convenient, affordable and the modern way to go.
Your banking charges are flexible and depend on how often you use your account and the types of transactions that you do, e.g. electronic vs branch transactions.
With the One Account you pay a fixed monthly package subscription fee of R138.00.
This fee includes your annual FNB Visa Cheque Card and Petrol Card fees, Cheque Books, Lost Card Protection and the administration of your account.
In addition you can:
Select the Electronic Pricing Option, as outlined atthe beginning of this guide under ‘Personal Cheque Accounts’.Or
Select one of three transactional plans with a base monthly fee, which includes a fixed number of transactions.Transactions included are debit orders, account payments, linked account transfers, scheduled payments and transfers, FNB ATM cash withdrawals, prepaid purchases, branch cash withdrawals and cheque and debit card usage, and:
Be able to choose the plan suitable for your usage pattern and also have the flexibility to change to a higher or lower plan when you need to.
Be charged for items in excess of the limit at an additional per item fee.
We are pleased to announce that the following transactions for our Personal account holders are now free effective from 1 June 2007:
ATM Cash Deposits
All Cellphone Banking transactions, including prepaidpurchases, linked account transfers, account payments,as well as statements and balance enquiries
All transactions via Telephone Banking (IVR and SpeechBanking only), including prepaid purchases, linkedaccount transfers, account payments, statements andbalance enquiries
Prepaid purchases via any of FNB’s electronic banking channels, i.e. FNB ATMs, Cellphone Banking, Online and Telephone Banking (IVR and Speech Banking)
ATM Balance enquiries.
This means that you can perform as many of these transactions as you like with no transaction or subscription charges.

Banking, and Financial Markets

To examine how financial markets such as bond, stock and foreign exchange markets work.To examine how financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies work. To examine the role of money in the economy
Financial Markets.Markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage of funds
The Bond Market and Interest Rates.A security (financial instrument) is a claim on the issuer’s future income or assets .A bond is a debt security that promises to make payments periodically for a specified period of time
· An interest rate is the cost of borrowing or the price paid for the rental of funds
The Stock Market
Common stock represents a share of ownership in a corporation
A share of stock is a claim on the earnings and assets of the corporation
The Foreign Exchange Market
The foreign exchange market is where funds are converted from one currency into another
The foreign exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another currency
The foreign exchange market determines the foreign exchange rate
Banking and Financial Institutions
Financial Intermediaries—institutions that borrow funds from people who have saved and make loans to other people
Banks—institutions that accept deposits and make loans
Other Financial Institutions—insurance companies, finance companies, pension funds, mutual funds and investment banks
Financial Innovation—in particular, the advent of the information age and e-finance
Money and Business Cycles
Evidence suggests that money plays an important role in generating business cycles
Recessions (unemployment) and booms (inflation) affect all of us
Monetary Theory ties changes in the money supply to changes in aggregate economic activity and the price level
Money and Inflation
The aggregate price level is the average price of goods and services in an economy
A continual rise in the price level (inflation) affects all economic players
Data shows a connection between the money supply and the price level
Money and Interest Rates
Interest rates are the price of money
Prior to 1980, the rate of money growth and the interest rate on long-term Treasure bonds were closely tied
Since then, the relationship is less clear but still an important determinant of interest rates
Monetary and Fiscal Policy
· Monetary policy is the management of the money supply and interest rates
o Conducted in the U.S. by the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed)
· Fiscal policy is government spending and taxation
o Budget deficit is the excess of expenditures over revenues for a particular year
o Budget surplus is the excess of revenues over expenditures for a particular year
o Any deficit must be financed by borrowing
o Conducted by the Legislative and executive branches of the Federal government
How We Will Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
· A simplified approach to the demand for assets
· The concept of equilibrium
· Basic supply and demand to explain behavior
· in financial markets
· The search for profits
· An approach to financial structure based on transaction costs and asymmetric information
· Aggregate supply and demand analysis