In this World Wide Wrap: Citi pilots mobile payment, customers choose RSA, and European awards deadline extended.
The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering and Dimension Data will host the CoMMIt 07 Symposium in September.
The growth in mobile banking services in Africa is "tremendous", says First National Bank.
Hosted by the South African Fraud Prevention Service, the conference will be held from 22-24 August in Muldersdrift.
NSFAS fintech partners to challenge contract cancellations
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In this World Wide Wrap: Advanced function for ATMs, mobile access to Web secured, and Five adopt Neptune.
The revised IT infrastructure deal signals a potential stay of execution for incumbent CSC.
The stock exchange mulls future SENS technology to make the service more efficient.
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
An Abuja-based fibre network links several Nigerian banks' branches, upping service delivery.
In this World Wide Wrap: Web 2.0 tools influence expectations, virtualisation gets backing, and vendors punt open source SOA.
Micro Focus, the UK-based legacy modernisation software house, has introduced the Enterprise View APM tool. [Local rep: MigrationWare]
The future of banking in Africa
MTN and Huawei, in partnership with Brainstorm magazine, held an executive roundtable on 11 May for industry insiders from the financial sector to discuss emerging technologies and digitisation in the banking space. #mtn #huawei #fintech
Banks like to keep control of their processes and so are unlikely to sell off Bankserv entirely, analysts say.
In this World Wide Wrap: E-banking safer with CD, NetTeller beefs up security, and IDB chooses Neptune.
Digital banking options can save customers 40% to 100% in transaction fees, say banks.