Banking & Finance
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...
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...
Cracking Machine Learning to speed up client service
Nedbank Insurance, part of the Nedbank Group that employs over 31,000 people across South Africa, has utilised Machine Learning and Design Thinking to help speed up how it processes emails. Challenge Today, every...
Why the tech sector needs to re-gear its approach to innovation
Global financial services company, Mastercard, is at the forefront of the payments industry and has implemented many new technologies. But that’s not to say it hasn’t come without its challenges. Gaurang...
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,...
Innovations that will reshape business in Kenya in the future
As global spending on Digital Transformation is projected to reach US$1.78 trillion in 2022, James Bayhack, Director, Sub-Saharan Africa at CM.com, looks at innovations that will reshape the business landscape in...
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...
Uganda National Social Security Fund transforms customer experience with...
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is a multi-trillion-shilling fund mandated by the government of Uganda through the NSSF Act, Cap 222 to provide social security services to employees in the private sector in...
Johannesburg Stock Exchange implements Denodo data virtualisation platform
Technology is at the heart of any modern stock exchange. For the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), which has over 140 disparate data sources across its data landscape and over 120 different applications which need to...
Axian Group enhances corporate integrity with Oxalys digital procurement...
Axian is a pan-African group that operates in five industries with high growth potential, namely real estate, telecoms, finance, energy and, open innovation and FinTech. Philippe Prodhomme, Group CFO, Axian Group,...
Standard Bank seamlessly transitions to cloud
Standard Bank decided to migrate its on-premise Atlassian toolset on to the AWS infrastructure and partnered with Synthesis to ensure best practices were adhered to and a seamless transition was possible. ...
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