by Dianne Bayley | Apr 20, 2020 | Sustainability
More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included. This is due to the high cost of providing financial services in Africa which forces many financial services providers to remain focused on...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Security and Legal
By Kathy Gibson, IT-Online – Africa is rapidly becoming more connected, more mobile and more tech-savvy – but this is opening the continent up to more cybercrime than ever before. “When you look at cyber-security in an African context, it is a ticking time bomb,” says...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Innovation
Digital disruption has clearly hit the banking industry hard across the globe, notes Sekete Maphopha, Tech Solution Planning Senior Manager – Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions & Services for Accenture, Africa. The first decade of the 21st century initiated...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured Articles, Features
Fintech is rapidly transforming the very essence of global financial services, writes Dominique Collett, a senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investment Holdings and the head of AlphaCode. At AlphaCode, we spend a lot of time researching and thinking about...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 20, 2019 | Workplace 2020
“Disruptive digital and e-commerce businesses, from scale-ups through to giants like Amazon or Google, are growing at such unprecedented rates that the gap between the staff they need and the talent available in the marketplace is widening. This is particularly true...
