Smart client technology takes Internet banking and online services to the next level, providing tools with which to improve customer relationships, says Sybille McCloghrie, group business development director at COSA.
In this week`s IT in Banking World Wide Wrap: Blind people to have better access to ATMs, banks are moving towards voice authentication, security fears turn UK bankers away from online banking;
Local company Wizzit is targeting the country`s unbanked sector with a cellular banking product.
A new study has found that local SMEs consider infrastructure more important than IT and Internet access.
NSFAS fintech partners to challenge contract cancellations
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PIC Solutions has been selected by Standard Bank of SA to randomise accounts in its card portfolio.
A local company is enabling African traders to accept credit cards even without electricity or fixed-line telecommunications.
Absa is using a single view of the customer at data warehouse level to enable strategy decisions and save on costs at the same time.
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
SunGard has announced that ABN AMRO, one of Europe's largest banks, has launched a pilot programme to test the new message standards released from SWIFT with SunGard's intelliTRACS solution to improve automation in the exceptions and investigations process.
NetTrace has been selected by Investec Private Bank to fulfil the role of inventory management, lease management and cost centre management of its computer workstations.
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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
In this week`s IT in Banking World Wide Wrap: Britain`s biggest savings bank is trying to discourage some customers from using its branches, online banking on the increase in Israel and SAP aims to grow its banking software market share.
Standard Bank has signed a RiskMentor credit risk management consulting contract with PIC Solutions.
PIC Solutions` Credit Academy will deliver credit risk training to Uganda Microfinance`s personnel.