WesBank's Corne Janse van Rensburg discusses how the financial institution's academy up-skills employees, helping them deliver operational agility.
With the investment in Branch, Visa wants to bring financial access to billions of people still unreached by banks.
The bank allows its customers to shop for tech and gaming appliances via its banking app.
Fintech firm i-Pay becomes Ozow, and will for one year offer zero merchant fees to emerging businesses that process under R1 million in monthly transactions.
NSFAS fintech partners to challenge contract cancellations
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Standard Bank taps Founders Factory Africa to help establish tech-enabled businesses over the next five years.
Banks that don't embrace AI run the risk of losing both existing and potential customers to competition that offers superior personalised experiences, says Patrick Shield, CTO at Software AG
The bank will manage all its employees via Workday's app-like human capital management suite.
Huawei Cloud drives African FinTech innovation
Mark Wang, Solution Architect at Huawei Cloud Southern Africa, spoke to ITWeb about Huawei being a strategic partner in the banking sector. He also addressed challenges for banks in SA and potential growth in the payment ecosystem for customers. #huaweicloud #fintech #digitalbanking
Standard Bank's move to select Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider marks the latest ramp-up in the adoption of cloud-based services.
New digital-only bank, Bank Zero, goes into beta testing, with plans to open in the second half of 2019.
Innovation, time to market and agility to adapt to changing environments will set organisations apart.
Over R12.8 billion was sent via eWallet transactions in the six months between July and December 2018.
Their collaboration promises to generate innovative use cases, such as no-password login and enhanced remote user registration, the companies say.