Mobile penetration has significantly increased across Africa, with Nigeria remaining the largest mobile market of about 162-million subscribers and a penetration rate of 84%...
18 hours ago
Mobile penetration has significantly increased across Africa, with Nigeria remaining the largest mobile market of about 162-million subscribers and a penetration rate of 84%...
Many insurers have embraced digital transformation to provide customer-facing solutions, but just as many are still heavily reliant on old, legacy systems for long terms policies, which hinders this process...
A high level of service and improved customisation are key elements to better reflect the digital needs of today's customer, especially during the insurance onboarding process...
Many insurers have embraced digital transformation to provide customer-facing solutions, but just as many are still heavily reliant on old, legacy systems for long terms policies, which hinders this process...
By Kumar Utpal 1 day ago
A high level of service and improved customisation are key elements to better reflect the digital needs of today's customer, especially during the insurance onboarding process...
2 days ago
The Fourth Industrial Revolution isn't the future - it's the present...
Adrian van der Merwe 1 day ago
Innovations in the fintech space is showing no signs of slowing down. Here's what we can expect in 2019...
Dominique Collett 3 days ago
The writing of disintermediation has been appearing on the wall for a while now. It's a real phenomenon, enabled by technology...
Riaan Bekker 3 days ago
African fintech startups have enjoyed a massive wave of investment in the last two years. But if they don't deliver on shareholder expectations, they may well go the way of the Dot.Com bubble...
Kate Mollett 10 Jan 2019
Banks are turning to the likes of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to customers' demand for an always-on, immediately responsive customer experience...
Vishal Barapatre 9 Jan 2019
IATA Pay is an industry-supported initiative to develop a new payment option for consumers when purchasing a ticket directly from an airline website...
9 Jan 2019
Since the advent of the decentralised blockchain in 2009, ingeniously invented by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, fintech has bloomed...
Justin McCarthy 9 Jan 2019
The blockchain dream is one of secure, seamless , transparent, trusted and convenient transactions...
Felix Antonysamy 8 Jan 2019
Virgin Money customers can now use its digital peer-to-peer (P2P) payment app, Virgin Money Spot, to pay for goods and services from a growing list of South African retailers...
8 Jan 2019
Social credit scores are set to be one of the trending terms for 2019. However, not all credit scores are created equal (or with equally good intentions)...
Bronwyn Williams 7 Jan 2019
South African business headlines were dominated by corporate disgrace in 2018...
Ernest North 7 Jan 2019
Twenty years ago, we were still buying insurance the old-fashioned way. Brokers would come to our houses. They'd assess our assets. They'd go away. They'd come back, with a lot of paper...
Wynand van Vuuren 7 Jan 2019
Emerging market insurtech companies are set to play a major role in the predicted rise of premium growth across the global insurance industry...
7 Jan 2019
On 9th January, Bitcoin - that mystically cryptic medium of exchange of invisible money (cryptocurrency) directly to another person (peer-to-peer) - turns 10...
Nasreen Saunders 7 Jan 2019
UN secretary-general António Guterres late last month announced the launch of a global task force charged with recommending strategies to harness the potential of financial technology to advance the Sustainable Development Goals...
31 Dec 2018
Entrepreneurs need capital to get a business off the ground, or to fund expansion, improve cash flow, or buy inventory to meet consumer demand...
Bradley Wattus 20 Dec 2018
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18 Dec 2018
The financial services industry has long been seen as extremely traditional in its technology use, but that is not the case any longer...
14 Dec 2018
Bitcoin has plunged from a high of almost US$20,000 in December 2017 to as low as US$3,675...
Greg Paul 12 Dec 2018
Pula Capital Partners (Pula), LRMG's B-BBEE investment arm, has partnered with KPI Management Solutions (KPI), further strengthening LRMG's focus on performance optimisation...
Pula Capital Partners 4 Dec 2018
Orange Group and MTN Group have announced a joint venture, Mowali, to facilitate mobile payments across Africa...
27 Nov 2018
After serious consultation with key partners and stakeholders, Benchmark International has announced that their utility token sale will be extended until 29 January 2019...
Benchmark International 27 Nov 2018
Amidst rapidly changing economic conditions, trends and technology, South African investors seeking to grow their wealth should be wary of attempting to identify the next Bitcoin or Apple...
CybiWealth 19 Nov 2018
When it was launched at Halloween in 2008, Bitcoin was practically worthless and all but invisible except to a select group of insiders...
Joe Pindar 16 Nov 2018
A new report from Juniper Research has found that the IoT payments market will grow at an average of 75% per annum...
14 Nov 2018
Blockchain has the potential to grow into a key capability, helping companies in the entertainment and media industry to keep track of content assets, avoid contractual disputes and establish the certainty and accountability that will foster trust with business partners and customers...
Paul Mitchell 12 Nov 2018
Regardless of their income, most South Africans experience some level of financial stress. It's therefore not surpirising that they are open to assistance on how to minimise their bills and create budget plans...
12 Nov 2018
Finance Trends 2019
