09/13/2021
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09/13/2021
“An offer that seems too good to be true should make you suspicious,” warns the South African Banking Risk Information Centre.
09/08/2021
Dumebi Udegbunam, Fixed Income trader at UBA, hailed the move by the apex bank as a formidable step as the nation navigates into the 4th industrial revolution.
09/08/2021
In addition to Senegal, its biggest market, Wave also launched in Cote d’Ivoire in April this year, and plans to step into Uganda, Mali, and other African markets.
09/07/2021
Also, present were Aymen Daoud and Alexander Bailey, Regional Head and Business Development Manager – Africa respectively of Backbase.
09/06/2021
"Our KAI- powered intelligent digital assistant, Enbi will deliver truly intuitive and engaging digital banking experiences our customers are looking for."
09/06/2021
As much as digitisation drives efficiencies and streamlines processes, digitisation
09/03/2021
To effectively drive customer experience, whether B2B or B2C, firms are sailing off to digital.
09/03/2021
Absa is looking to accelerate its digital transformation through strategic partnerships
09/03/2021
By capitalizing on open banking opportunities with next-generation money remittance software, we will reduce the cost of money transfers and simplify the customer experience.
09/01/2021
The firm further notes that African MSMEs have historically faced numerous barriers to growth.
09/01/2021
Chipper Cash, raised $30 million in the Series B funding round, that was led by Ribbit Capital, with the participation of Bezos Expeditions — the personal Venture Capital fund of Jeff Bezos.
09/01/2021
ComiBlock is for now focused on Africa, but looking at a global scale.
08/31/2021
In Francophone Africa, the company has invested in Afrikrea and Star News Mobile. Then in Omnibiz, RXAll, Sudo Africa, Tech Advance, Aladdin, Flex Finance, Star Kitchens Group, and EPump across West Africa.
08/31/2021
Higher average FUM levels drove higher asset-based fees for the period.
08/30/2021
"We have also relaunched the CIBN Mentoring Scheme with a view to building the capacity of young practitioners in the banking and finance industry thereby strengthening the talent pipeline into senior leadership roles."
08/30/2021
Financial institution suite: licensed financial institution will be able to request currency or issue stablecoins, manage digital currency across branches, KYC, identify and AML compliance capability.
08/27/2021
With over 150,000 businesses on its platform, it said that the goal is to reach at least a million merchants within the next four years.
08/27/2021
Combined with a cloud-first approach, a faster claims processing engine and high configurability, the solution will help Standard Bank Insurance improve operational efficiency and streamline claims management.
08/26/2021
In the report, it was stated that despite the challenges in the year, the sector showed resilience, leveraging lessons from the 2016/2017 economic recession.