Investec Private Business Account

Comprehensive banking for privately owned businesses.

Investec Private Business Account gives you the tools to manage business finances effectively by combining a current and credit account, a Journey card, an online savings account, and electronic banking.

Overview of features

Your business faces a host of logistical challenges. Your banking experience shouldn’t be one of them. The Investec Private Business Account is designed to make managing your money easier so you can build and run a successful operation.

Features include:

  • A current account
  • Visa credit card
  • Specialised finance solutions
  • Online access to your instant access, notice and fixed term deposits
  • Online savings facility via Cash Management Account
  • Electronic banking: Online, Mobile and Telephone Banking
  • Journey card for fuel, oil and toll gate transactions
  • Personal service from your private banker and 24/7 assistance from the Client Support Centre
  • Earn Dividends points on business spend with Investec Dividends rewards programme
  • Free travel insurance
  • Foreign exchange services

 

Current Account Facility

Simplify your business finances by consolidating your daily transactional banking in one account, with a single statement. You’ll also be able to access funds via 1,200,000 local and international Visa ATMs. (For your protection, we apply daily withdrawal limits of R6,000 locally and R20,000 internationally.)

Benefits of your Current Account Visa card

  • Free travel insurance when you purchase an air ticket using your card
  • Dividends points on all point-of-sale card purchases
  • Access to the Visa Commercial Savings Programme
  • Additional cardholders’ purchases and cash withdrawals reflect against your credit limit but are shown separately on your statement.
  • Control expenditure by implementing spend limits on each card
  • No annual card fees
  • Fraud insurance if your card is lost or stolen
  • Sophisticated security features, including chip and PIN technology and an SMS and email account activity notification service

Credit Facilities

Single credit facility

Combine your business’s financing requirements into a single credit facility and benefit from the same competitive interest rate. We’re able to extend a single facility to meet all your credit and working capital needs.

Whether you need to finance stock or purchase supplies, your Investec Private Business Account card lets you manage a single line of credit to meet your cash flow needs.

Choose a flexible repayment option that suits your business, including:

  • A “reducing” facility – you service the interest and a portion of the capital used on a monthly basis
  • An “interest only” facility – you service the monthly interest

Structured finance for businesses

Speak to us about your structured finance requirements. Our specialist bankers are trained to assist you. We’re able to help with competitor acquisitions, black economic empowerment deals and management buyouts.

Electronic Banking

Online banking

Business banking anywhere in the world, 24/7. With Online Banking, you can:

  • Schedule future-dated payments and receive SMS confirmations of scheduled payments
  • Make beneficiary payments
  • Send confirmation of payments to beneficiaries by fax, email or SMS
  • Retrieve online statements and IT3b forms
  • Make online redemptions for the Investec Dividends rewards programme
  • Transfer funds from your Investec Private Business Account to your other Investec accounts and vice versa
  • The Cash Management Account offers you a convenient online savings account that allows you to manage and store surplus funds.

Multiple user access

Multiple User Access enables you to assign an appropriate level of online banking access and authorisation powers to a trusted person. Multiple user access gives you the ability to:

  • Control who pays what, when and how much
  • Receive transaction notifications by email and/or SMS. SMS notifications are also sent when beneficiary banking details are altered
  • Follow an audit trail for enhanced security and account monitoring

Telephone banking

For assistance with your business banking, you may also contact the Client Support Centre. A trained consultant will talk you through your transactions (including any transactions that may be concluded via Online Banking). However, for payments exceeding R20 000, we require your signed instructions.

Mobile banking

Use your mobile phone to do your business banking from anywhere, 24/7. www.investecmobile.com uses your mobile phone’s internet functionality that is compatible with GPRS, Edge or 3G technology, and a web browser. You can:

  • View transaction history
  • View balances on Investec linked accounts
  • Make payments and transfer money between linked Investec accounts

Cash Investments Accounts

Cash Investments Accounts

Choose your deposit account based on fund access requirements and interest rate expectations.

Cash Management Account

Business is cyclical. That includes yours. Sometimes your business may have surplus cash to invest, at other times it will require a cash injection. The Cash Management Account gives you the facility to save extra funds, which can then be drawn on when you need a cash boost. As an Investec Private Business Account client, you are automatically registered for this convenient online savings facility.

Benefits include:

  • No minimum investment amount
  • No notice period
  • Competitive interest rates, tiered according to the amount invested
  • Online accessibility

View the latest Cash Management Account rates

Other Cash Investments Products

We can also assist with structuring your portfolio.* Based on your cash flow requirements and our current interest rate view, we will seek to maximise your returns and hedge your interest rate risk.

* In line with the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS), only consultants who are registered as representatives of Investec Private Bank will dispense advice in respect of Investec Private Bank investment products and services.

Read more about Cash Investment products for privately owned businesses.

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Investec Private Bank. A division of Investec Bank Limited registration number 1969/004763/06. Investec Private Bank is committed to the Code of Banking Practice as regulated by the Ombudsman for Banking Services. Copies of the Code and Ombudsman’s details are available on request. An authorised financial services provider. A registered credit provider registration number NCRCP9.