Managers of Wealth Africa

Kenswitch unveils cross border ATM integration

He noted that Kenswitch has been focused on financial inclusion

UBA Launches New Banking Platform for Companies

The United Bank for Africa Plc at the weekend said it has launched the ‘U-Direct Corporate,’ a web-based banking platform for cash management.

World Bank Partners Firstmonie On Mobile Money

Nigeria has a low rate of financial inclusion

SA has most tech hubs in Africa – World Bank

Tech hubs in South Africa include Bandwidth Barn, Silicon Cape, m:lab Southern Africa, Startup Garage, the Innovation Hub and RLabs

EBank to Mount Challenge to South African Lenders in Namibia

EBank will establish branches for card collection and other services

KCB, KBS partner for Abiria card fare payment platform

Powered by TapToPay and using the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, the MasterCard-enabled card can be used for transit

Emerging Markets Payments sponsors African Banker Awards 2014

Emerging Markets Payments, the leading electronic payments processing company in the Middle East and Africa, has again sponsored the African Banker Awards.

The African Banking Technology Summit 2014

It has been said that Africa's financial services are among the continent's fastest developing sectors.

Cloud – what is it not good for?

A good starting point is to recognise that there is no single definition of cloud, nor is there a unifying set of criteria that banks and other financial institutions use when making their decision.

Kenya’s Equity Bank To Build $34m Data Centre

The first phase of the 5000-acre tech city located in Machakos County, 64 km south of Nairobi will cover 400 acres of land, which the University of Nairobi Enterprise Services (UNES) has already mapped out.

Stanbic Bank launches MoneyWallet Card

The card, a product of Stanbic Bank’s collaboration with MasterCard, can be reloaded as often as the holder desires

Why we need biometrics

Last year, the insurance and banking industries were two of the largest hit by fraud. It is for this reason that sufficient security measures like biometrics need to be put into place

Kenya’s Equity Bank launches paper-thin SIM card tech

Kenya’s Equity Bank plans introducing paper-thin SIM cards to help its customers access the bank’s mobile money service without needing to use dual-SIM phones.

Kenya Commercial Bank launches in-house processing centre Compass Plus

The newly integrated platform from Compass Plus will significantly improve the system usability

Companies ‘more on guard’ over money laundering

It conducted similar surveys in 2009 and 2011

Kenya: Equity Bank to Launch MVNO Services in July

Every SIM card will be a debit card

Calls to regulate Ghana’s mobile banking gain momentum

Technology is good but it has also brought us a lot of headache

Standard Bank debuts new payments app

SnapScan, developed by Stellenbosch-based FireID, allows bank customers from any of South Africa’s banks to make cashless and cardless payments both in-store and online. By Duncan McLeod.

DST launches advanced version of Anova

“We’re witnessing increased demand from asset and wealth management firms to modernize their current performance measurement and attribution systems," said Webb.

IBM launches mainframe hubs in South Africa, Kenya

The hub is also planned to help clients adopt big data and cloud computing technology

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