Steward Bank signs for NetGuardians’ cybersecurity tech
Fraud fighting solutions find a place at Zimbabwean bank.
Fraud fighting solutions find a place at Zimbabwean bank.
The Confédération des Institutions Financières d’Afrique de l’Ouest (CIF) in tech revamp with SAB.
South African bank unveils new app that allows users to send money, data and airtime.
The pilot location for the new digital bank is Côte d’Ivoire.
Creating inclusive banking for remote communities.
Mastercard has acquired Oltio, a mobile paytech firm in South Africa.
Oracle FSS’s Flexcube core banking tech out, Temenos’ T24 in, at Banque du Caire in Egypt.
Fintech with flourish. Nourish your brain.
Bank reported problems with its self-service channels.
Pilot in Nigeria is start of larger plan to get more businesses into their version of digital economy.
Kenyan bank will use Fiorano’s platform while integrating with Infosys’ Finacle core banking system.
Will also experiment with distributed ledger technologies – and ConsenSys helps out.
Featuring YapStone, Stash, Moneyfellows and Lendingkart.
Validata has gained a new taker in Africa for its quality assurance (QA) software – Stanbic Bank.
Kenya-based Family Bank has implemented Profile Software’s Acumen treasury management system.
Fiorano’s tech helps integrate with Banco Postal’s two core banking systems and national payment subsystem.
An interesting place to be a bank or a fintech!
Our southern stars are Bank Zero, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Rwanda’s largest commercial bank in major revamp.
Helping the Ghana government to issue national identity cards to its citizens in real time.
Extending services to customers in North Africa and French-speaking African countries.
The two companies will offer integrated, real-time fraud prevention solutions for e-commerce payments for merchants in MENA.
2018 will see the launch of Root in South Africa, a bank account for developers.
The duo are targeting Africa’s unbanked population.
Al Salam Bank Seychelles (ASBS) has chosen International Financial Systems’ (iFinancial) anti-money laundering (AML) solution, AMLtrac, as it plans to introduce domestic banking services for local and regional SMEs and corporates. As part of that planned expansion, ASBS, an offshore financial institution, has selected the know your customer (KYC) and document management, account monitoring, transaction […]
Namibia’s EBank has achieved digital transformation of services with Fiorano’s core banking integration. Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus seamlessly integrates EBank’s Temenos T24 core banking system with third party suppliers and channels facilitating its vision of financial inclusion.
Biometrics firm Veridium has teamed with Wala, a blockchain-powered financial services platform, as they target the unbanked and underbanked population in Africa. The duo will collaborate on a pilot programme in sub-Saharan Africa to demonstrate their digital model offering “zero-fee banking”. This pilot is funded by a grant awarded to Veridium from the Digital Financial […]
Africa is firmly in last place when it comes to the development of the digital society, unless you count the Antarctic, but looking towards the failures of other emerging markets might help things along, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology‘s sister publication). First of all you have to address the hurdles which Africa is facing. Firstly, the […]
Government intervention has been a hot topic all week at AfricaCom, and it doesn’t seem like there is going to be a resolution to the problem anytime soon, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology‘s sister publication). Of course there will always be a need to regulate any industry; commercial entities should not be left by themselves, they […]
Libya-based Bank of Commerce and Development (BCD) has signed for Finastra’s front-end software to launch a new online and mobile banking platform.
Mauritius-based Warwyck Private Bank has signed a deal with Swiss banking software tech vendor ERI to implement its Olympic core banking system.
Farmers Commercial Bank (FCB) in Sudan is upgrading its core banking system, Temenos’ T24. The bank enlisted National Data Consultants (NDC), a Pakistan-based implementation partner of Temenos, to help with the project.
Morocco-based Al Akhdar Bank, a joint venture of Crédit Agricole and Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), has signed for a new core banking solution, Ethix, supplied by International Turnkey Systems (ITS).
In an exclusive interview with Daily News at Sibos, Martin Grunewald, chief payments officer at BankservAfrica, discusses its vision for a modern payments system in Africa and why replication is a good thing. “If we don’t start, we won’t get to the finish line”. There is a lot of planning and talking now, but South […]
The State Bank of Mauritius, SBM Group and SALT, creator of a blockchain-backed loan platform, have entered into an exploratory relationship to use blockchain assets as collateral for lending services. SALT, which stands for Secured Automated Lending Technology, says it offers risk mitigation software which allows financial entities, like SBM, to participate in this new […]
Fintech firm Ovamba says it is working with Microsoft to create “the first African language driven chatbot designed to serve the millions of African SMEs who face exclusion from financial services due to the challenges of functional and business literacy”.
Ethiopia-based Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO), has gone live with new core banking software, Temenos’ T24.
TymeDigital, a South African online money transfer business bought by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) two years ago, has been granted a banking licence. The first licence issued to a new bank by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) since 1999. TymeDigital will enter a retail banking market dominated by South Africa’s five biggest banks: […]
BGFI Bank, a financial services group in Central Africa, is upgrading its core banking software group-wide. The bank is rolling out a new version of Sopra Banking Software’s Amplitude system, Amplitude Up.
South African start-up Bettr Finance is preparing to launch its mobile banking service – with the offer of no monthly account fees and no bricks and mortar branches. It’s early days at the moment, so timelines and specific details are not available. But on its website its alpha phase is limited to 10,000 users. The […]