07/11/2019
The microfinance institution has over 170 branches and caters for millions of modest-earning, but salaried South Africans such as government employees, mineworkers and civil servants.
07/10/2019
OPay will use the capital (which wasn’t given a stage designation) primarily to grow its digital finance business in Nigeria—Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy.
07/10/2019
Bank of Kigali Plc chooses cloud-native, cloud-agnostic Temenos T24 Transact to provide end-to-end digital banking services to customers
07/10/2019
Infrastructure funding gap in Africa is estimated to be around $130-170 billion a year, according to the African Development Bank.
07/09/2019
As a number of experts look to analyse Nigeria’s position as the leading economy in Africa and a drive of future growth, KPMG has been particularly vocal in its take on the situation.
07/08/2019
According to a World Bank report published last year, the cost of sending cash in sub-Saharan Africa was at least 20% higher than any other region in the world.
07/08/2019
Attacks on enterprise are becoming cheaper and easier for agents to execute, writes BRIAN PINNOCK, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast
07/08/2019
South Africa’s small businesses face a number of challenges: a declining economy, skills shortages and more.
07/08/2019
In Ghana , mobile financial services are mostly used by those poorly served by the traditional financial sector.
07/05/2019
A unified digital strategy across diverse markets allows the advantages of scale.
07/05/2019
SA technology analyst Arthur Goldstuck believes outages at the cybercrime company Cloudflare were likely to blame for Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram's network issues.
07/04/2019
Studies by the world’s major consultancies show that flexible workspaces now make up about 8% of global office space, rising to 30% by 2030
07/04/2019
The cause was clear: Wala was unable to disentangle itself from the banking system it hoped to exist apart from and, eventually, replace.
07/04/2019
As reported on June 28 during a Town Hall meeting in Masaka, Kasekende said, “Let me state clearly that the cryptocurrency businesses are not regulated at the moment and therefore carry a significant risk of loss of savings, with no recourse to prot
07/03/2019
Mobile money has literally changed the lives of millions in East Africa in the last 12 years.
07/02/2019
The Attorneys Insurance Indemnity Fund (AIIF) now known as the Legal Practitioners’ Fidelity Fund (LPFF), has been notified of at least 110 cyber-scam related claims worth over R70-million since 1 July 2016.
07/02/2019
Top on the mind among respondents were security and data protection risks
07/02/2019
Cyberattacks, mostly targeting payment systems, are now one of the most powerful threats, with more than 82 per cent of the companies having been targeted, according to a recent AFP research.
07/01/2019
A new paper details the results of the survey alongside findings from other regional studies
07/01/2019
The service agreements we sign with banks, internet providers and cellular companies allows them to collect a huge amount of our personal data.