Intelligent Banking & Finance

TymeBank is rated as one of South Africa’s top three digital banks

TymeBank was launched just 18 months ago and has already been rated as one of the top three digital banks in South Africa by SITEisfaction. It follows on from the recent Forbes accolade, which claimed TymeBank as the second best bank in the country due to its high levels of...

Moving away from passwords in the era of technology

Kemi Okusanya, Vice President, Visa West Africa, whose responsibilities cover Ghana, tells Intelligent CIO that there is a drift away from legacy authentication methods like passwords, that need to be typed towards multi-factor authentication systems. The outbreak of the...

The game changer for South Africa’s oldest bank

First National Bank (FNB) is the oldest bank in South Africa and one of the country’s ‘big four’ financial institutions. It is a division of FirstRand Limited, a large financial services conglomerate, which trades on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange under the symbol FSR....

Mukuru CEO: Using technology to serve the underserved

Mukuru is one of the largest remittance companies in Africa that brings safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities across the continent. Intelligent CIO discusses the company’s deployment of technology with its CEO Andy Jury. Mukuru has been at the...