07/05/2018
Africa has also seen a mushrooming of various tech start-ups that are bringing further disruption and traditional companies have been urged to adapt to the emerging tech trends or risk going out of business.
07/02/2018
This means that the SaaS products can be easily plugged into financial institutions’ existing systems.
06/29/2018
Marc Herson, an investor at Investec, said African banks struggle in reaching more remote, low income populations because they are set up as infrastructure players.
06/26/2018
Reports of Standard Bank downtime on Down Detector also started spiking at around 09:00 this morning.
06/26/2018
Currently, there were 71 Fintech companies operating in the country
06/26/2018
Global Knowledge Hub content has been drafted from scratch, it is available in a clearly defined scope and qualifies as structured data
06/26/2018
With the restrictions on South Africans taking money offshore easing, the head of platform proposition and marketing sees platforms providing an important offering to locals looking to invest overseas.
06/25/2018
'We intend to bring credit solutions to all of our PayU markets, including Africa,' says CEO Bob Van Dijk
06/22/2018
Bancor is seeding the initial currencies by contributing capital generated from its $153 million token sale in June 2017.
06/21/2018
Axia Robo Advisor with its cutting-edge technology achieves a unique user experience, delivering a complete offering of omni-channel wealth management services, adding significant value to their operations.
06/19/2018
Rwanda is moving towards cashless economy through cashless operation using ICT tools. In Rwanda ratio of e-payments transactions to GDP rose from 0.3 per cent in 2011 to 16.5 per cent in September 2016.
06/19/2018
Insurer Liberty Holdings faced questions from South Africa’s Information Regulator on Monday, a day after the company said it had become the victim of a cyber attack.
06/19/2018
Google will open an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in Accra, Ghana, later this year, its first on the African continent.
06/18/2018
Global trends and the ability to deliver true real-time banking functionality make it likely.
06/12/2018
The life insurance company joins Plug and Play Insurtech to tie the South African insurtech ecosystem to Silicon Valley.
06/12/2018
Paxful claims that cryptocurrencies are mainly purchased by bank transfers or gift cards.
06/11/2018
The SSC, which has over 200 000 beneficiaries, draws its funds from compulsory deductions from every worker who receives a basic salary.
06/10/2018
The latest deal between the World Remit and First Bank would deepen mobile money service and financial inclusion in the country
06/08/2018
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has released its report on Project Khokha, a Proof-of-Concept designed to simulate a real-world trial of a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based wholesale payment and settlement system.
06/08/2018
The economy of Africa has been severely buffeted by many factors over the years. However, P2P finance platforms like Paxful recognize the opportunity cryptocurrency offers Africa.