11/25/2016
Senegal to Introduce Blockchain-based Currency to West Africa, eCFA
The eCFA franc as it will be called will be in circulation in parallel to the current physical CFA franc bank notes.
11/25/2016
MasterCard, SnapScan partnership adds 30,000 South African merchants
Each MasterPass transaction is classified as an Authenticated Mobile Transaction
11/25/2016
Financial services prepare for digital disruption
Digital disruption occurs when new digital technologies and business models affect the value proposition of existing goods and services.
11/24/2016
Uganda Could Become First African Nation To Adopt Bitcoin Regulations
The legal and regulatory environment is moving towards embracing the technology so as to harness its benefits and to promote innovation.
11/24/2016
African Banks Start to See the Potential of Blockchain
African banks are relatively new to the R3 arena
11/24/2016
National Bank of Malawi selects Swiss FinTech NetGuardians
Risks are present at all corners during core banking upgrades.
11/24/2016
Asian, African Banks are attacked using zero-day vulnerability
The total number of InPage users is almost 2 million worldwide.
11/23/2016
Last year electronic fraud in the banking sector accounts for about 16% of total fraud in the industry
11/23/2016
Ghana is doing quite well in the ICT sector
11/23/2016
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.
11/23/2016
Payments systems vary between, and even within countries, and are complex
11/22/2016
Well-known consumer brands are set to launch virtual networks on top of MTN’s infrastructure.
11/22/2016
Largest network on the continent allows merchants, banks and mobile operators to scale transactions cross-border, cross-currency and cross-network
11/22/2016
The industry currently employs about 4000 people, most of who are in rural communities.
11/22/2016
New mobile banking application to help customers across the country
11/21/2016
Launch of Boost Africa Initiative, a new integrated approach to boost young innovative entrepreneurs across Africa
11/18/2016
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.
11/18/2016
The mobile payments service M-Pesa, which allows users to make payments, send money and store cash without a bank account.
11/17/2016
The investment is strongly aligned to the Bank’s Ten Year Strategy 2013-2022 and its High 5 priorities.
11/17/2016
Sterling Bank simultaneously rolls out Temenos Core Banking Solution across 185 branches