Managers of Wealth Africa

Velmie launches mobile banking platform tailored for Africa

Velmie builds digital banking products, peer-to-peer lending and microfinance solutions.

New approaches to biometrics and digital ID systems in Africa considered to achieve universal coverage

The document reviews key insights from the webinars, including the wake-up call the pandemic has provided to governments about the value of useful, digital identity systems, and its exposure of fault lines in social protection and opportunity.

Nigeria’s Riby has gone nationwide helping clients digitise operations to access finance

The startup is also increasingly deepening its product stack to enable it to offer financial services to individuals and small business owners

Co-Operative Bank Kenya Announces Open APIs

The transactional APIs allow users to perform functions such as internal funds transfer, pesalink send to account, instant notification services, and send money from a co-op bank to a Mpsesa wallet.

Downloading South African banking apps – What you should know

South Africans should ensure they only download banking apps from official app stores.

Digital platform economy gains traction in Africa.

African organisations are increasingly embracing the drive towards the next wave of innovation in the global digital platform economy.

Digital Wealth Management: Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Value Creation

AI makes it possible to use algorithms to build predictive scenarios to support the investment process.

Facial recognition: African leaders must ensure ‘regulation before rollout.

Speed with which digital innovation is progressing threatens to outpace the law and lawmakers.

FinTech in Mauritius

The FSC has issued a guideline in April 2019 in relation to a Securities Token Offer

FinTech can help the Islamic finance sector to innovate and grow

The wider adoption of technology could simplify the Islamic finance sector and help it attract more digital-savvy millennials

Nedbank debuts tap on phone

Believed to be a first for Africa, the tap-on-phone functionality builds on Nedbank’s PocketPOS payment solution.

African organisations ready to drive innovation: Standard Bank

The paper, launched digitally, was authored by Choudary and Standard Bank CIB Digital’s Jonathan Lamb and Kent Marais.

Open Banking Presents New Opportunities For Banks In Kenya And The Africa region

The account holder will have the ownership of the data and allow them to share with other third parties at their discretion.

Digital Financial Inclusion in the Times of COVID-19

Pandemic covid-19 really affects society.

TechCentral’s CxO Insights: Meet Standard Bank’s Emmerentia du Plooy

In addition, business is notorious for circumventing governance because it is inconvenient or introduces a bottleneck – and this is a problem.

Paxful announces strategic partnership with global cryptocurrency exchange OKEx

The partnership offers more bitcoin payment options for users in developing regions as P2P trade surges in South Africa and Nigeria

Mobile cash transactions drop by Sh36.77 billion

In April alone, the deals fell by Sh50.23 billion to Sh360.22 billion from similar period last year which was the biggest month-on-month drop since last year.

Absa Life launches a bot that helps both customers and employees

Anyone who has tried to check an insurance policy unsuccessfully will know the pain of not being able to find the information you are looking for.

Mobile money gateway MFS Africa has acquired B2B digital payments player, Beyonic

Beyonic had previously raised an undisclosed seed round amount from US startup accelerator TechStars in 2016.

Corporate cyber attacks in East Africa on the rise

Current attacks within East Africa are being linked to hackers employing smarter methods to distribute their server networks and occasionally purchasing command and control systems in other countries, with traffic being routed through myriad systems makin