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
11/16/2016
But also regulators including the South African reserve Bank and others are increasingly looking at the blockchain.
11/16/2016
Efforts to build poor people’s resilience are already gaining ground.
11/15/2016
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?
11/15/2016
The distinction between blockchain and bitcoin is important: Bitcoin is just one of many crypto-currencies, which uses blockchain technology as its transaction conduit.
11/15/2016
Flutterwave provides end-to-end payments technology and infrastructure
11/14/2016
The government also permitted Mobile Network Operators to license agents.
11/14/2016
Growth in new mobile subscriptions is slowing.
11/13/2016
For Fidelity Bank, in keeping with its promise to make financial services easy and accessible to its teeming customers, it integrated mCash into its Instant Banking service *770#.
11/13/2016
CIOs in East Africa must work closely with their boards to invest in technology that will enable their organisations to thrive against the background of more demanding customers
11/11/2016
The digital payment addresses the need for a convenient, low cost acceptance payments service throughout the continent
11/10/2016
Purple pages services offers a mobile cleaning services and has an online platform that offers personilised shopping.
11/10/2016
They also provide the ability to leapfrog and accelerate development in key sectors like health and education.
11/10/2016
The East African nation is also planning to float an Islamic bond in the international markets.
11/08/2016
Customers can dispute and stop debit order payments via FNB and Absa’s online channels
11/07/2016
The mCash utilises Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD code in payment processing.
11/06/2016
Consumers with limited access to traditional banking have seized the opportunity to manage their money, make transfers and deposits, pay bills and purchase airtime through their mobile phones.