Managers of Wealth Africa

Ecobank Group and Google collaborating to deliver digital solutions tailored for Ecobank’s SME' customers

The aim is to assist African businesses remain relevant and fulfil their potential by embracing digital capabilities

Carbon Express - Carbon launches its new Social Banking Service

Customers can securely make payments and transactions without leaving their social apps

SA insurtech CompariSure lands investment

The startup distributes financial services products via its proprietary chatbot technology that leverages platforms like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

UBA Upgrades Mobile App, Introduces Exciting New Features for Customers

Customers who subscribe to the lifestyle offering on the app will enjoy access to the free online medical doctor, a great response to the new norm created by Covid-19 pandemic.

Card payments up Sh1.6bn despite corona demand slump

The decline, especially in March came as businesses experienced some impact as the global coronavirus pandemic hit consumer demand, leading to low orders and operations scale-down.

Covid-19: African e-commerce firms get coronavirus boost

Despite initial fears the virus would devastate poor African countries, the continent has so far recorded low infection rates compared to virus-stricken Europe and the United States.

Key cyber risks for banks during COVID-19

This all makes personal and corporate banking customers a natural target for fraudsters.

Kenya’s Glowing Fintech Scene Is Dulled By A Lukewarm Wealthtech Segment

There’s a relatively new crop of fintech startups that are now prioritising savings and investments over spending and consumption.

Ventures Platform Announces Investments in Tambua Health, Brass Digital Bank and FunnelJoy

This will see them fill in the gap left by traditional banks in Nigeria in their offerings for Small and Medium-scale Entreprises

Mobile Banking and Kenya

Many African countries are bucking this trend, leaping from cash-only societies to mobile-based.

Absa invests in A2X

A2X has listings from many key sectors, including mining, media, banking, retail, FMCG, financial services, insurance, healthcare and telecommunications.

Al Baraka Bank Sudan introduces iMAL business intelligence core from Path Solutions

This strategic platform empowers bankers to make smarter, faster, and more effective decisions, improving operational efficiency. It also enables business agility while driving innovation, competitive differentiation, and profitable growth.

Expert warns of Covid-19 cyber fraud spike

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a form of cybercrime where the perpetrator either illegally gains access to your email or registers a domain similar to yours and communicates with your clients or your suppliers as if they are you.

Three Cases For Crypto Adoption

According to multiple studies carried out, emerging markets like South Africa, have far greater penetration of smartphones than they do financial services.

Refinitiv Releases Findings of Sub-Saharan Africa Financial Crime Survey for 2020

90 percent expect their financial crime prevention technology to develop over the next two years

Ecobank CEO talks Africa’s Covid-19 support: “There’s still more work to be done”

The report projects that the region’s economic growth will shrink by an unprecedented 1.6% in 2020 amid tighter financial conditions, a sharp decline in key export prices and severe disruptions to economic activity as a result of the pandemic.

TymeBank and digital peers thrive in online shift prompted by coronavirus

TymeBank was just warming up to the possibility of mass customer acquisition at the Zion City Moria in Limpopo

Why COVID-19 could delay Interswitch, Africa’s next big IPO

Africa’s tech scene is still fairly young, but it does have a timeline with several definitive points.

How to protect your bitcoin from hackers

Bitcoin’s market capitalization surpasses that of its closest rival Ethereum and is still majorly the only cryptocurrency asset.

Safaricom to launch unit trust, new savings service

The giant telco also said that it is awaiting regulatory nod to introduce the new savings product

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