AI cuts Absa’s debt review turnaround | ITWeb Tech Headlines | 2 - 7 November 2026
These are the stories making headlines on ITWeb this week. Absa has reduced debt review processing from four days to one using AI, as the big-four bank moves the technology from experimentation into live operations. Meanwhile, township fibre uptake could climb from about 15% to 70% within a year, compared with 40% to 50% in suburbia, according to Accelerit Technologies CEO Mandla Ngcobo. In addition, Lesaka Technologies has built its pending acquisition of Bank Zero into its full-year forecast.
Mobile app security and push-based authentication solutions provider Entersekt relocates its European headquarters from Geldermalsen to Utrecht, both in the Netherlands.
If apps are the new security frontier, then defending that frontier means changing the way everyone concerned with software development and maintenance works.
The Internet economy is open, mobile and 24/7. Apps increasingly drive this world, and attract cyber criminals in droves.
The McAfee mobile security report uncovers the dangers of free app permissions.
The inventor of the World Wide Web calls for increased app security - without impacting the user interface.