As South Africa's payment system sunsets cheques and accelerates its move away from cash, consumers and businesses are looking for convenient and simple instruments for bill payments...
Paul Adant 22 Apr 2021
Superunion Africa, a global branding agency offering digital design and experience services, is proudly responsible for PEP's brand refresh in 2020...
Issued by Superunion 11 Mar 2021
Flash has partnered with the DG Murray Trust to launch a R2m electronic food voucher system to approximately 7,000 at-risk households in five food insecure communities...
Last year, AP News reported that financial services technology company FIS discovered direct-to-consumer banks had overtaken traditional banks and credit unions in customer satisfaction. Since then, the trend has only grown stronger...
Craig LeBrau, Issued by LeBrau Press 23 Mar 2020
Digital and mobile technology is continually evolving and advancing, creating new ways to pay; from mobile wallets to peer-to-peer to digital currency, the modern payments landscape has evolved past simply cards and cash...
Bevan Smith 4 Feb 2020
Pick n Pay has reopened the doors to its flagship On Nicol after a comprehensive revamp...
Now is the perfect time to get in on the super app game, establishing your company as a preferred partner or supplier early on...
Lee Naik 4 Oct 2019
Standard Bank has gained a stake in Nomanini following an investment of $4m. The bank will be able to use Nomanini's fintech platform to uncover data on the informal retail economy...
Zongs Liwani's Mbekweni Market in Paarl is the fourth Pick n Pay market store to open in the Western Cape. Pick n Pay's market store programme equips independently-owned stores with systems and retailing techniques...
The Shoprite Group has launched K'nect stores, which are dedicated to providing access to services like global money transfers, cellphone purchases, bill payments...
Paylater rebranded to Carbon to become a digital financial services platform, going "beyond banking", says CEO Chijioke Dozie...
Louise Marsland 19 Jul 2019
Digitalisation means that people are banking from their mobile phones, making payments via barcode scanning and even in some cases transacting using cryptocurrency...
Gerhard Greyling 28 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...
Pick n Pay's spaza modernisation programme has helped local entrepreneurs Armien and Yasmina Adams open their Something Nice Market in Blue Downs, Cape Town...
Paylater, the mobile app providing Nigerian consumers with access to credit, has reached 1 million downloads...
To enable higher levels of financial inclusion across Africa, banks and payments companies must drive solutions allowing small and informal merchants to accept digital payments at a lower cost...
With the Seedstars World Summit taking place on Thursday, 12 April 2018, the organisers have announced the final 65 finalists that will get the chance to pitch their ideas on the global stage. 20 out of the 65 finalists are from Africa...
Ilse van den Berg 11 Apr 2018
Disrupt Africa's annual list of the innovative African startups that will be making an impact in the year to come...
Gabriella Mulligan 5 Jan 2018
Nyanga businesswoman Khosi Liwani is the latest to join the Western Cape family of independent store owners taking part in Pick n Pay's spaza modernisation programme...
Pick n Pay has expanded its partnership programme with independent spaza store owners to the Western Cape...
Youtap has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia...
PayU Nigeria introduces PayU Subscription, a convenient payment method which allows merchants to safely and securely collect payments from consumers...
Payments technology plays a critical role for retailers, ensuring a fast and smooth shopping experience for consumers, as they transact billions of rand every month...
Pick n Pay announces 18% growth in headline earnings...
Allan Gray has defended its decision to invest in Net1 UEPs, the controversial parent company of social grants distributor CPS...
Hanna Ziady 10 Mar 2017
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mastercard announced that South African MultiChoice customers can now pay their digital satellite television...
A Cape Town-based fintech business, Electrum, is providing retailers and banks with the technology platform that they need to connect their systems to VAS providers...
Visa partners with Ecobank to bring low cost digital payments to millions of merchants across Africa...
To educate South Africans on the benefits of making safe, secure and fast payments with Masterpass, Mastercard, in collaboration with Digitata Insights has launched a gamification campaign...
A partnership between Pick n Pay and the Gauteng Department of Economic Development (GDED) to regenerate entrepreneurial grocery stores will see its second store open in Diepkloof...
When farmer Isaac Tondo fell on lean times in Liberia's long rainy season, his brother in the capital sent 8,000 Liberian dollars (US$87) to his Lonestar mobile money account, ensuring his children's school fees would still be paid...
Property by its nature has and always will require management. Since 1994, South Africa has become a popular choice for foreigners to buy investment properties...
Grant Holton 15 Sep 2016
Absolutely all companies out there, no matter how large or small they are, will end up with some debt collection problems as customers do not pay what is owed...
Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library 5 May 2016
A new partnership between the Gauteng Department of Economic Development (GDED) and Pick n Pay comes alive as the first ever spaza-to-store conversion, Monageng Market, opens in Diepkloof, Soweto this week...
ZAZOO has partnered with Oxigen Services India to seamlessly integrate its mobile virtual card (MVC) technology to power Visa Prepaid into Oxigen Wallet...
SimbaPay has announced the expansion of its free instant deposit service to Choice Microfinance Bank in Kenya...
The value of transactions processed through mobile platforms surpassed $2 billion during the first five months of the year, highlighting the increasing number of people turning to mobile devices to transact.
Martin Kadzere 24 Jul 2015
A United States based mobile payments firm, Mozido, said yesterday it has acquired a majority stake in Zimbabwean firm NettCash, which also runs similar operations, as part of its expansion programme.
SimbaPay has launched a product that allows Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa PayBill payments. This is a new addition to the existing SimbaPay platform...
The e-commerce industry in Africa will reportedly receive a boost as United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced an online payments and collections platform named U-bills, which has already...
Using smart phones to make purchases at markets, restaurants and convenience stores has become increasingly popular. Newly launched mobile payment app, Flickpay is set to transform the mobile payment industry with its fast and secure platform.
Customers can now transfer money to their Orange Money account directly from their BNP Paribas account, or vice versa using their mobile phones.
Telecommunications operator Orange and the BNP Paribas group, a specialist in banking services and investment solutions, have announced that their retail banking customers in Africa now have direct access between their BNP Paribas account and their Orange Money account through their mobile phones.
Thirty years ago, no merchant could have envisioned the day when buyers would be able to shop for their merchandise anytime, from anywhere around the globe, using nothing more than a handheld device.
Eran Feinstein 26 Feb 2014
Transaction reconciliation can be used both as a strategic advantage and as business critical safety net, as more retailers implement Value Added Services (VAS) to enhance the customer experience, to generate incremental revenue and to gain a competitive advantage.
Ian Steyn 8 Nov 2013
Visa Inc and Fundamo, the Visa-owned mobile money platform, recently announced the results of a study that reveals consumers in six developing countries are already highly aware of mobile money services - the ability to make payments or send funds simply by accessing an account on their mobile phone. Nearly 90% of consumers surveyed by Visa expressed interest in making use of these services in the future.
Umeme, an energy distribution network company in Uganda, recently launched bill payments by Mobile Money together with real-time bank reconciliations. This means that customers will be able to avoid disconnections caused by delayed payment reconciliations.
Manoj Kohli, CEO international and joint managing director of Bharti Airtel, has met with the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to discuss the telecommunication company's progress in the country. The courtesy visit comes two months after Airtel launched operations in Rwanda, expanding Airtel's footprint on the continent.