Representatives of the four major commercial banks met in Johannesburg this morning, to discuss Absa clients` compromised online security and share information.
Absa aims to capitalise on the global contact centre outsourcing trend, through an outsourcing deal with US-based TransUnion.
Striata says local online users should think twice about opening e-mail from unknown sources as they may contain viruses or Trojans.
Talgentra will provide African Bank with the Tallyman software solution to support its collections operations in SA.
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The Absa online banking fraud case has sparked a great deal of fear among online banking clients.
A legitimate monitoring program has been blamed for the Absa e-banking fraud case.
Banks say customers need to be educated to avoid the kind of online identity fraud that occurred among several Absa clients last week.
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
Absa launched its new-look flagship branch, dubbed "the outlet of the future", at Sandton City last night.
Absa has certified its retail point of sale acceptance systems with both Visa and MasterCard to ensure acceptance of chip cards.
Investec Asset Management and global stockbroker UBS have announced an automated equity trading and asset management system.
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
Global Technology (Glotec) is to sell four subsidiaries for R1. It has also warned that it will report a significant loss for the six months to end-June.
The Banking Sector Education and Training Authority (Bank SETA) has awarded an e-learning tender to the University of the Western Cape and Safmarine Computer Services.
First National Bank (FNB) has disposed of its IT Customer Services division to CS Holdings (CSH).