Managers of Wealth Africa

African tech companies are having a good year

Tech start-ups on the continent have fared well regardless of the pandemic-stricken year

Digital Transformation: Obaro calls for attention to cybersecurity

The technology expert further highlighted data breaches, data loss, access control, denial of service, insecure interfaces and poor API implementations, as some of the security challenges faced by organisations and government today in the use of cloud.

Standard Bank goes live on Traydstream platform

Traydstream digitises documents such as the Letter of Credit, Foreign Bills of Collections and Open Account Trade Finance.

Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund Targets Africa, Renewables to Lift Returns

The $710 billion fund, known as ADIA, this year started a climate-change equity portfolio aimed at boosting its green-economy exposure, and is a shareholder in sustainable-energy projects that generate more than 20 gigawatts of power.

Banking has gone beyond brick and mortar – Ecobank boss

Ecobank to use agency network and digital platforms as a means of being able to distribute banking services to people.

Access Bank Partners Coronation Insurance for Bancassurance

As part of efforts to deepen the financial services industry in Nigeria, Access Bank and Coronation Insurance are collaborating to drive an innovative, efficient and dynamic bancassurance system.

Ayeyemi: Digital Platforms Now Preferred Banking Method

The first one was the question of the goodwill that we are holding in the book of the holding company, relating to the acquisition of Oceanic Bank that ETI did in 2011, which is almost nine years.

CIBN Urges Banks to Strengthen Cyber-security

He urged banks to continue to reinforce their Risk Management Framework in tandem with government policies and urge the banks to consider conducting more market research on how customer needs might change in the Post COVID era.

StanChart launches a ‘Women in Technology’ incubator programme

“The Women in Tech Incubator will provide an opportunity for women-owned or led businesses to thrive in a post COVID-19 digital world by tapping into the opportunities offered by technology adaptation.”

Crypto pioneer buys a R600k house with crypto and it ends up costing R200k

Using a smart contract, with no ID, email or customer information required.

Telkom launches WhatsApp payment service

They will then be able to message this contact and follow the prompts to enable Telkom Pay.

Codebase unveils Digibanc SaaS to fast track digital banking adoption

Digibanc™ SaaS, has been created to empower financial institutions in their digital drives and ensures complete Regulatory compliance.

Calligo announces fourth UK&I acquisition of 2020

Calligo’s acquisition of Network Integrity Services is part of Calligo’s objective to expand its local presence throughout the UK

FNB customers can now own shares in Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, PayPal and Visa

Mkhize said that, while investment levels in the first 10 global companies have been good across the board, the clear winners in terms of popularity among South African investors have been Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft (in that order).

2020’s Ten Most Influential startups in Africa: SmartWage

Having clients before a product stood us in good stead to shape our product off the back end of direct user experiences.

Ghana: UNDP, Vodafone Ghana Foundation Train 61 Rural Women in Agribusiness

Made up of leaders of various groups , the participants were trained on how to use their mobile phones to save, transact businesses and access formal banking services to improve their livelihoods.

Discovery Bank announces doubling down its digital banking services

Clients get 5% off for activated Vitality programme, plus an additional 5% for having a Discovery Bank account and credit card.

Digital payments are big in South Africa – But no launch date for Apple or Google Pay

The first is available on both smartphones and smartwatches, while the latter two are only supported on smartwatches.

Deepening Nigeria’s Insurance with Digital Technology

But the insurance penetration remains underwhelming at only 0.4 of Nigeria’s estimated 200 million population.

Online shoppers warned against making instant EFT payments

Sarb and FSCA say consumers are put at risk and it may be in contravention of their bank’s Ts&Cs.

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