We chatted to Clayton Hayward, co-founder and MD of UKheshe, to find out more about the Ukheshe platform, what some of the barriers are for financial inclusion among SA's youth...
Sindy Peters 6 hours ago
EquityMaven, a local fintech startup, plans to disrupt traditional business valuation services by offering highly detailed, investment banking-style valuations online...
Evan-Lee Courie 1 day ago
FinYou is a purposed-based lending solution that links merchants with funding from financial institutions...
Evan-Lee Courie 3 days ago
Richard Rattue of Compli-Serve says the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the fintech and working from revolution. It has created a new normal that is going to be around for a long time..
Nicci Botha 8 May 2020
Llewellyn Allen, Metropolitan's head of marketing, explains how the financial services giant is navigating the rapidly changing world we find ourselves in...
Nicci Botha 6 May 2020
You might as well be Nostradamus, Siener van Rensburg or the auntie who puts together the astrology column in the newspaper for all anyone can predict the future, AC (After Coronavirus)...
Brendan Seery 14 Apr 2020
Chris de Beer, Africa regional manager at infoSource comments on how the print industry, like every other industry around the world, is going to be hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic...
Chris de Beer 2 Apr 2020
Solvency, a black-owned insurance solution, launched in January 2020 and is set to disrupt the short-term insurance industry in South Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 6 Feb 2020
The next technological evolution is advancing at an exponential rate and by leaving out some on this journey, we allow the current societal divides and inequalities to deepen...
Sindy Peters 15 Nov 2019
Run by two young entrepreneurs, Investmint is an online platform that connects businesses in need of loans with investors looking to invest by means of a loan...
Evan-Lee Courie 17 Oct 2019
HouseAfrica is a Nigerian-based startup on a mission to make real estate investment accessible to everyone through technology...
Evan-Lee Courie 9 Oct 2019
You just have to track Michael Jordaan's various projects to see he has never shied from the exploiting the potential of technology, particularly in the financial space...
Nicci Botha 16 Sep 2019
Publicis Machine recently received three honourable mentions at the global Pearl Impact Awards for their work on the Sanlam Reality account. We asked chief content officer Sarah Browning-de Villiers what it takes to succeed in the content marketing space...
Jessica Tennant 18 Jun 2019
There is still $400m unbanked in Africa, and the goal is to work with the private and financial sector to connect the poor with adequate financial systems...
Nicci Botha 20 Mar 2019
Are financial services providers able to cater to the demands of the next generation?...
Walter van der Merwe 7 Mar 2019
Corrie Bakker, head of strategy and business development for Africa at PayU talks about what we can expect in the payment provider front in 2019...
Evan-Lee Courie 21 Jan 2019
Standard Bank was crowned the country's most valuable brand at the inaugural BrandZ Top 30 Most Valuable South African Brands when it launched at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning...
Danette Breitenbach 1 Nov 2018
The 20th Sunday Times Top Brands Awards saw iconic South African brand, Koo, awarded the Consumer Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix. In the business category, another local brand, Discovery Health, was awarded the Business Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix...
Danette Breitenbach 25 Oct 2018
Independent financial advisers (IFAs) believe one of their greatest challenges now and over the next five years is regulations related to the industry...
Nicci Botha 15 Oct 2018
Second quarter 2018 SARB New Mortgage Lending data showed slower year-on-year growth in the value of new mortgage loans granted compared to the previous quarter...
John Loos 28 Sep 2018
Joe Public founders Pepe Marais and Gareth Leck were announced as 2018 Medium Business Entrepreneur of the Year at this year's Entrepreneur of the Year competition sponsored by Sanlam and Business/Partners. This just off the back of being announced Loeries 2018 Agency of the Year...
Jessica Tennant 14 Sep 2018
Vuca - the acronym for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - is the new normal within the South African political context, said policy specialist, Theo Venter...
Nicci Botha 12 Sep 2018
Economist, Dr Roelof Botha is quite adamant that South Africa is not in a recession despite what Stats SA said...
Nicci Botha 10 Sep 2018
Karen Nadasen, CEO of PayU South Africa, is regularly described as one of South Africa's most inspiring women in tech, nominated for IT Personality of the Year 2017...
Evan-Lee Courie 30 Aug 2018
An announcement you may have missed from Cannes Lions: There's a new cryptocurrency soon to be launched, but it won't be taking its name from any memes or computer jargon. Instead, it'll be launched by Senegalese musician Akon...
Andy Walker 28 Jun 2018
Social media is an excellent marketing tool, but in the wrong hands, it can also be severely damaging...
linda graham 20 Jun 2018
Ryan Marx, Jax du Plessis and Duane du Plessis know all about price comparison, having been the team behind pan-African platform CompareGuru...
Tom Jackson 18 Jun 2018
To the older generations, millennials are an enigma. They are the first true digital natives, and in South Africa they are also the first generation to bear the fruits of democracy and empowerment...
Nicci Botha 4 Jun 2018
If there was a theme song for public relations in general and reputation management in particular, it should be the Marilyn Monroe and Frankie Vaughn duet Specialisation from her under-appreciated 1960 movie Let's make love...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 25 May 2018
More and more, consumers in sub-Saharan Africa are looking beyond their borders to get the products and services they need...
Efi Dahan 12 Jan 2018
