Banking & Finance
APIs and SaaS boost insurance modernisation in Africa
By implementing the Root portfolio of SaaS solutions with built in APIs, TFG Insurance has gained capability to build custom products that meet requirements according to individual risk, price, life stage while...
How cloud platforms can help African neo banks to realise goals
Komuniti in collaboration with banking as a service and embedded finance enabler, Ukheshe, is bringing digital banking to people in South Africa leveraging the framework provided by Ukheshe. African communities have...
GITEX GLOBAL, Expand North Star to take over the city of Dubai at two mega...
The surge in international demand has rallied the world’s largest tech and start-up event to scale even higher in 2023, spearheading a global tech takeover across two Dubai mega venues next month. The 43rd...
African enterprises warm up to Blockchain technology
Blockchain is a record-keeping technology designed to make it impossible to hack the system or forge the data stored on it, thereby making it secure and immutable. It is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
The lessons of 2020 are driving trends in business leadership and FinTech for...
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Chairman of Nigerian FinTech firm Innovate1Pay, Mahmood Ahmadu has shared his vision for 2021, as businesses reopen in the new normal. Drawing on the pragmatic leadership required in a...
Managing security budgets for peak performance
Gartner, a world-leading research and advisory company, has forecasted worldwide security and risk management spending growth to slow but remain positive in 2020. Worldwide spending on information security and risk...
GITEX GLOBAL, Expand North Star to take over the city of Dubai at two mega...
The surge in international demand has rallied the world’s largest tech and start-up event to scale even higher in 2023, spearheading a global tech takeover across two Dubai mega venues next month. The 43rd...
CRS payroll automates and empowers pharmaceutical company
CRS Technologies is a leading provider of solutions and services to the growing human capital management industry. Recently, it partnered with a South African pharmaceutical company to implement its solutions and...
Volante Technologies and Finextra’s report reveals MEA aims for payments m...
Volante Technologies, a global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, has announced that banks and FinTech firms in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) are planning more investment in payments modernisation...
Five things to look for in a payments provider
By taking advantage of online shopping, more people are building websites to sell goods online – but do they know which payments partner to choose? Joshua Shimkin, Head of SME Growth & Marketing at Peach...
Nedbank goes all-in on hybrid work with Citrix
Nedbank, one of South Africa’s four largest banks, has made a permanent shift to a new model, leveraging digital workspace solutions to provide secure, reliable access to everything employees need to engage and...
Eight guiding principles for Zero Trust in banking and financial services...
Security leaders will be familiar with the term ‘Zero Trust’ – an approach crucial as vulnerabilities and attacks are becoming more damaging to organisations. Hila Meller, BT Vice President Security,...
iiDENTIFii helping reverse grey listing of South African banks by using...
In January 2025, the global anti-money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force, will review its decision to greylist South Africa and interrogate the public and private sector measures to address its...
How Stanbic Bank Uganda is embracing digital to modernise operations
By adopting IBM’s Cloud Pak for Integration, Stanbic Bank Uganda is accelerating digital transformation, maximising operational efficiency, reducing integration costs while onboarding new APIs securely, and...
TFG migrates to Cape Town-based Root’s low code, digital policy a...
TFG, The Foschini Group has started moving its insurance book onto Cape Town-based start-up Root’s digital policy administration system. This has changed how TFG develops, markets, sells, and manages insurance...
Financial services company MUA, implements SilverBridge Partner Portal to...
MUA, a regional financial services company committed to providing innovative insurance and financial solutions for communities in Mauritius, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, partnered with South African financial...
Nigeria based Vigia selects ThetaRay AI solution for anti-money laundering
VigiPay, a Nigerian fintech providing digital payment services, and ThetaRay, a provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, announced they will collaborate to protect VigiPay’s growing business...
Nedbank goes all-in on hybrid work with Citrix
Nedbank, one of South Africa’s four largest banks, has made a permanent shift to a new model, leveraging digital workspace solutions to provide secure, reliable access to everything employees need to engage and...
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