06/16/2014
UBA Launches New Banking Platform for Companies
The United Bank for Africa Plc at the weekend said it has launched the ‘U-Direct Corporate,’ a web-based banking platform for cash management.
06/16/2014
World Bank Partners Firstmonie On Mobile Money
Nigeria has a low rate of financial inclusion
06/11/2014
Tech hubs in South Africa include Bandwidth Barn, Silicon Cape, m:lab Southern Africa, Startup Garage, the Innovation Hub and RLabs
06/11/2014
EBank will establish branches for card collection and other services
06/06/2014
Powered by TapToPay and using the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, the MasterCard-enabled card can be used for transit
06/03/2014
Emerging Markets Payments, the leading electronic payments processing company in the Middle East and Africa, has again sponsored the African Banker Awards.
06/03/2014
It has been said that Africa's financial services are among the continent's fastest developing sectors.
06/02/2014
A good starting point is to recognise that there is no single definition of cloud, nor is there a unifying set of criteria that banks and other financial institutions use when making their decision.
06/02/2014
The first phase of the 5000-acre tech city located in Machakos County, 64 km south of Nairobi will cover 400 acres of land, which the University of Nairobi Enterprise Services (UNES) has already mapped out.
06/02/2014
The card, a product of Stanbic Bank’s collaboration with MasterCard, can be reloaded as often as the holder desires
05/30/2014
Last year, the insurance and banking industries were two of the largest hit by fraud. It is for this reason that sufficient security measures like biometrics need to be put into place
05/29/2014
Kenya’s Equity Bank plans introducing paper-thin SIM cards to help its customers access the bank’s mobile money service without needing to use dual-SIM phones.
05/28/2014
The newly integrated platform from Compass Plus will significantly improve the system usability
05/28/2014
It conducted similar surveys in 2009 and 2011
05/27/2014
Every SIM card will be a debit card
05/26/2014
Technology is good but it has also brought us a lot of headache
05/22/2014
SnapScan, developed by Stellenbosch-based FireID, allows bank customers from any of South Africa’s banks to make cashless and cardless payments both in-store and online. By Duncan McLeod.
05/22/2014
“We’re witnessing increased demand from asset and wealth management firms to modernize their current performance measurement and attribution systems," said Webb.
05/16/2014
The hub is also planned to help clients adopt big data and cloud computing technology
05/16/2014
Exchange controls have been relaxed to allow for the practice, though the rules remain fairly strict