Browsing: Fintech

Yoco announced today that its customer base of small businesses had crossed the 50,000 milestone and to further grow its…

Vodacom Tanzania and Smart Lab have today launched “Vodacom Digital Accelerator,” a program that intends to help early-stage and growth-stage…

by Andrew Bahlmann Second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data surprised on the upside, with the 3.1% increase from Q1 handily…

AlphaCode, Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI)’s incubation, acceleration and investment vehicle has awarded R23 million supplier development loans to three…

Standard Bank has invested $4 million (R61 million) in South Africa’s FinTech firm Nomanini. The investment has enabled the local…

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) calls FinTech firms to submit their innovative and sustainable solutions to challenges identified within…

Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI), through AlphaCode, has awarded entrepreneurial packages valued at R16 million to eight of SA’s most…

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the fastest-growing investment zones for financial technology companies according to new research says Forbes. The…

MTN  is re-focusing its business on building an integrated digital operator and the results are encouraging. The shift is part…

AB InBev Africa is rolling out a Blockchain solution developed by BanQu, a US-based FinTech company. This technology enables farmers…

MTN Nigeria today announced that its subsidiary, Yello Digital Financial Services Limited (YDFS) has been granted a full Super Agent…

Nigeria, MTN’s largest market by subscribers, attracted 3.3 million subscribers in the six months to end-June 2019. The South African-based…

Naspers has announced plans to list Prosus on Euronext Amsterdam along with a secondary, inward listing on the Johannesburg Stock…

MTN Group today announced the appointment of Yolanda Cuba as Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer. Cuba will join the…

by Miguel Da Silva Despite the important contribution small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) make to the economic growth of South Africa, the…

PayU, Naspers’ global FinTech company, is expanding into Southeast Asia after it announced a deal to buy a majority stake…

ThinkMarkets, a provider of online trading in financial markets, announced on Wednesday that it will offer bank-like level of safety…

By Marwan Elnakat, digital banking solutions director for the CISMEA region at Gemalto With Capitec’s latest trading update making a…

By Avaya Consumers in South Africa prefer a digital-first approach to resolving their basic banking issues, only talking to a…

By Hemkumar Balaraman, project manager at Africa, Wipro Limited Recent years have seen South African banks compete in a key…

By Staff Writer Prodigy Finance, an international FinTech platform that has developed the world’s first borderless credit model, today announces…

Standard Bank Group continues to undertake a wide approach to its technology investments, such as increasing its digital capabilities, which has…

Don’t be left in the dark with what’s disrupting the financial services industry in South Africa. The FinTech (Financial Technology)…

The battle for control of the bank accounts of African consumers through mobile money – essentially the use of mobile…

By Staff Writer Stellenbosch-headquartered FinTech company Entersekt announced on Wednesday that it has appointed ICT industry veteran Pattison Mutambiranwa…