Managers of Wealth Africa

African Banks Start to See the Potential of Blockchain

African banks are relatively new to the R3 arena

National Bank of Malawi selects Swiss FinTech NetGuardians

Risks are present at all corners during core banking upgrades.

Asian, African Banks are attacked using zero-day vulnerability

The total number of InPage users is almost 2 million worldwide.

Banking fraud is costing the Nigerian economy dearly

Last year electronic fraud in the banking sector accounts for about 16% of total fraud in the industry

Banks asked to be wary of internal cyber attacks

Ghana is doing quite well in the ICT sector

Online banking fraud takes just one click

But the big banking fraud syndicates send out emails to millions of unsuspecting bank clients every day, just waiting for that one person they can trick and rob of funds.

Streamlining payments industry in Africa

Payments systems vary between, and even within countries, and are complex

MTN to host ‘household names’ as MVNOs

Well-known consumer brands are set to launch virtual networks on top of MTN’s infrastructure.

MFS Africa connects 120 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Largest network on the continent allows merchants, banks and mobile operators to scale transactions cross-border, cross-currency and cross-network

Rural banks advised to embrace technology in banking

The industry currently employs about 4000 people, most of who are in rural communities.

Ecobank Ghana launches mobile banking app

New mobile banking application to help customers across the country

New Approach Towards Boosting Young Innovators In Africa

Launch of Boost Africa Initiative, a new integrated approach to boost young innovative entrepreneurs across Africa

Cactus Capital invests in African fintech startups

Cactus Advisors’ founder and CEO, Zach George said the company was excited to be investing in pioneering fintech companies that had graduated from leading accelerator programmes worldwide.

The future of banking in Africa lies with banks, not fintech

The mobile payments service M-Pesa, which allows users to make payments, send money and store cash without a bank account.

AfDB approves US $10-million equity investment in TIDE Africa Fund

The investment is strongly aligned to the Bank’s Ten Year Strategy 2013-2022 and its High 5 priorities.

Sterling Bank, Nigeria, completes Temenos IT transformation project

Sterling Bank simultaneously rolls out Temenos Core Banking Solution across 185 branches

South Africa and Blockchain: changing the face of Africa

But also regulators including the South African reserve Bank and others are increasingly looking at the blockchain.

Kenya's phone banking gets global praise

Efforts to build poor people’s resilience are already gaining ground.

How Mobile Banking Is Transforming Africa

When up to 90% of your population doesn’t have a bank account, how do you bring them into the financial system quickly and easily?

The rise and rise of blockchain

The distinction between blockchain and bitcoin is important: Bitcoin is just one of many crypto-currencies, which uses blockchain technology as its transaction conduit.