Managers of Wealth Africa

South African companies are desperate for tech skills – but just can’t find them

“To challenge entrenched market players, digital businesses need to innovate, but at times battle to find the technical expertise to do so."

South Africa’s first ever blockchain-based property register pilot

The benefit of the blockchain solution is that it allows the data to be stored in a decentralised, secure database

Welcome to ‘Silicon Savannah’

Because Kenya is emerging as the next big tech hub.

West African Financial Sector Embraces Digital Transformation And Innovation

Changing the paradigm of Instant Payments, was explained by Rishi Pillay, Managing Executive – FSS

Chatbots – a 2020 outlook

Tech-savvy Nigerians already boast of some sort of experience and interaction with chatbots.

Banks Rake in N27.5tn Deposits amid Threat by Fintechs

The growth was attributed to banks’ aggressively marketing and deposit mobilisation strategies as well as their introduction of technology solutions.

Airtel Africa inks new deal to accelerate mobile financial services

It will also allow Ecobank corporate account holders to make bulk disbursements, such as payroll payments, directly into Airtel Money customer wallets.

Oracle Accelerates Kenya Vision 2030 with Autonomous Cloud & Artificial Intelligence Technology

Oracle has also recently unveiled the world’s first Autonomous Operating System; AI Voice for the enterprise and the world’s fastest database machine.

African Bitcoin Exchange Founder Vanishes, Claiming Lost Wallet Password

Bitcoin Exchange Boss Does a Runner

MTN and Sanlam launch an innovative digital-based insurance product

This was the obvious next step for MTN SA in line with MTN Group’s strategy of driving financial inclusion across the 21 markets it operates in, including South Africa," said Felix Kamenga, MTN SA Chief Officer of MTN Mobile Financial Services.

Africa: Standard Bank Group to Use Digital Tech to Boost Agriculture Across Africa

Currently, the continent uses predominantly traditional small-scale farming techniques

150 East African Companies Shortlisted for CIO100 Awards

The awards have been running for the last none years and have become a yardstick to benchmark a company's innovativeness among its competitors and industries.

Intelligent Automation: Tips for Business Success

For businesses looking to take the next step in automation, it’s useful to understand what differentiates enterprises truly ‘winning’ with automation from those only seeing small pockets of success.

Temenos Successfully Delivers State-of-the-Art Core Banking Platform for Ghana’s Second Largest Bank

Consolidated Bank of Ghana goes live with Temenos T24 Transact to achieve sustainable growth and deliver exceptional customer experience

How digital transformation is accelerating growth in Africa

If there ever was a time to watch progress in Africa, it is now.

We did not attack your banks – City of Joburg hackers

The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) later revealed that banks were targeted by distributed denial of service attacks, and were not hacked.

Safaricom gains $40m after appointment of Kenyan CEO

Mr Ndegwa will take charge of the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed firm on April 1, next year.

Standard Bank: Scores of customers hit by technical glitch

Standard Bank had something of a technical hiccup on Thursday, as the company faced a desperate scramble to fix issues with mobile and online features.

Binance adds Nigerian naira support, plans for even more currencies

Remittances are big business everywhere in the world, but they're especially big compared to other capital inflows in emerging economies, as well as especially expensive.

South African banks hit by massive DDoS attack

Standard Bank and other local banks experienced problems with online and mobile app banking following the start of the DDoS attack, but most of these services have since been restored.

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