Managers of Wealth Africa

Nigeria’s Konga.com launches one-click KongaPay for online shopping

Nigeria’s ecommerce giant Konga.com has this week officially unveiled its highly anticipated payment solution called KongaPay

Standard Bank's Apple Watch app coming in September

The app is currently in a pilot phase with a limited number of users, presumably in-house testers.

KCB adds 1.8mn mobile customers in Kenya

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has signed up 1.8mn subscribers for its mobile phone-based banking services

FNB's Connect mobile network goes live today

First National Bank has become the first banking institution in South Africa to launch a mobile service by issuing its own mobile SIM cards – and the service went live today.

MasterCard and Ecobank Group agree to accelerate electronic payments adoption in 32 sub-Saharan African countries

One of the leading pan-African banking groups Ecobank Transnational Inc.on June 15 signed a landmark multi-country agreement with global payments technology company MasterCard to bring MasterCard’s payment solutions to more than 32

EcoCash gets the nod from SA Reserve Bank

Expat Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa will now be able to make cross border mobile money remittances back home

Standard Bank to Launch Apple Watch App

The company said the app is still being piloted with a handful of users

How integrated payments can help South African SMEs reduce costs and improve efficiencies

Integrated payments providers can help South African SMEs reduce costs and improve efficiencies, says Donovan Marais, Channel Manager at Sage Pay.

Just how big a threat is cybercrime to SA?

These attacks occur when multiple compromised systems, usually infected with a Trojan

South Africa and China sign ICT plan

South Africa and China have signed a Plan of Action on areas of cooperation in information and communications technology (ICT) to implement broadband infrastructure in rural areas.

Five years on, Airtel’s Africa business still off target

Despite making significant investments in the continent, the firm is yet to declare profit or meet its goals

FNB launches mobile service

FNB has announced that it has become the first bank to offer its own SIM cards to its customers from June 15.

Temenos launches T24 Cloud Islamic in Africa

With T24 Cloud Islamic this is set to change

FNB confirms mobile network plans

This has been coming for a while. South African banking giant FNB has confirmed plans to launch its own mobile network, with SIM cards set to be issued to its customers.

Sungard opens Nairobi office

Financial services firm opens fourth office in Africa

Kenya's KCB signs up 1.8 million mobile banking customers

The KCB M-Pesa service, operated jointly with telecoms operator Safaricom, allows users to deposit cash and borrow up to 1 million shillings

Altech Card Solutions protects customers against rise in banking, card fraud

The standard was introduced to ensure that the cardholder's information cannot be easily compromised

Businesses increase footprint with XLink

Local banks are also setting up offices in several of these countries

Chinese Giant Huawei Establishes Its Regional Headquarters in Casablanca Finance City

Chinese company Huawei, a global supplier of ICT solutions, has announced that it has been granted the Casablanca Finance City (CFC) status

Objectway Introduces Digital Wealth Experience Platform-Conectus

Conectus was first introduced in April as a module within Objectway's Wealth in One solution and is now available to the market beginning today as a stand-alone channel proposition.

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