06/28/2021
Trail of SA brothers linked to missing Bitcoin stash is still murky
A "To Let" sign could be spotted Saturday, fastened to a glass door of vacant office premises in Johannesburg’s upmarket Rosebank business hub that were listed in Africrypt’s communication with clients.
06/28/2021
Scammers Create Bitcoins Wallet And Disappear $3.6 Billion From South African Investors
At that time, when its users started complaining and suspicions were raised, the brothers called for calm and asserted that the reason behind it all was that the company was the victim of a hack.
06/27/2021
Tanzania’s Central Bank Working on Reversing Crypto Ban, Following President’s Directive
The Bank of Tanzania prohibited the use of cryptocurrency assets in the country back in November 2019, saying that they were illegal.
06/23/2021
In this latest document, the IFWG recommended that South Africa should now consider regulating cryptocurrencies.
06/22/2021
NCBA Bank took on an ambitious project with Huawei through its partner, MuRong Technology, which would see it build a next generation core banking system
06/21/2021
This service is available on business days with a cut-off time of 3pm, using its Global Net Banking channel, HSBCnet.
06/21/2021
“The cost and friction of payments in South Africa is too high,” says Farzam Ehsani, VALR co-founder and CEO.
06/20/2021
The Communications Authority (CA) of Kenya has launched a mobile application for reporting cybersecurity incidents, following a surge in detected cyber threats during the Covid-19 pandemic.
06/20/2021
With 56 per cent of the population in Nigeria ‘unbanked’, many are turning to apps to access key financial solutions including: loans (43.3 per cent), financial services (35.6 per cent) and investments (20.3 per cent). Africa as a whole record
06/18/2021
South Africa was fourth with $25.8 million.
06/17/2021
Further to this, cryptocurrency cannot be duplicated in any way or be printed as endless money, the way central banks have been doing throughout the years.
06/16/2021
There are mutual advantages of adopting an open API architecture
06/16/2021
And this is a problem because financial inclusion is an essential step toward combating poverty and income inequality.
06/16/2021
Creating a digital platform, application modernisation and cloud migration of the continent’s largest financial institution will enable innovation, resilience and cost-efficiencies allowing Standard Bank to respond to customer needs
06/16/2021
The platform has enabled the central bank to consolidate data collection across its various departments into 42 returns, with over 250 forms and 400 validation rules.
06/15/2021
“The Central Bank should be ready for the changes and not be caught unprepared.”
06/15/2021
The company is one of the only European fintech firms to work directly with an African bank in rolling out a fast-paced, collaborative platform that aims to transform how data is utilized across the banking sector.
06/14/2021
To bring the issues into perspective, let me outline Standard Chartered’s journey towards digitisation and self-disruption in Africa.
06/11/2021
This virtual event is open to businesswomen, women-owned tech startups, tech CEOs, students, tech enthusiasts, venture capitalists, bankers, among others.
06/11/2021
For over two years now, she added, the CBN had been been exploring technology and had made tremendous progress.