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Youth Day, AI & Where to From Here?
The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence belongs in South African classrooms. It is already there, formally through approved school platforms, and informally through learner usage and teacher experimentation. The real challenge is moving beyond the hype to provide…
Banks Urged to Reuse Fraud Data to Fix Broken Dispute Processes & Rebuild Trust in Digital Banking
Fraud dispute resolution is often manual and can take weeks. Research shows 73% of customers say their loyalty is heavily influenced by how fraud is handled. While customer satisfaction and retention may largely lie in the ambit of the CMO,…
City Lodge Hotels Introduces New Buzz App
City Lodge Hotels has launched the Buzz App, a new mobile food and beverage ordering app that allows guests and visitors to order directly from their smartphones. Available at all City Lodge Hotels properties across South Africa, the app offers…
JUMO & Nedbank Launch Next Gen Digital Lending Ecosystem
In a move that signals a new chapter for South Africa’s financial services sector, Nedbank has entered into a partnership with AI-powered banking technology company JUMO to unlock a next-generation digital credit ecosystem. The collaboration brings together the balance sheet…
Datacentrix Investing in Education Through CSI Donations
Datacentrix has reinforced its ongoing commitment to local education and skills development through a series of recent corporate social investment (CSI) initiatives supporting schools in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Supporting learners with special needs In Mabopane, Tshwane West, Datacentrix provided 10…
What makes a forex trading app useful for active traders?
Things have changed a lot in online trading over the last ten years. What used to need a desktop, multiple screens and complicated software now fits in your pocket. Now, you can trade or monitor your investments from almost anywhere…
Global Payments Platform Unlocks Africa-wide Access for International Merchants
Yuno, the global financial infrastructure platform, announced a strategic partnership with Onafriq to bring Africa’s most expansive payments infrastructure to merchants worldwide. Through this integration, Yuno’s clients gain instant access to Onafriq’s network spanning 43 African markets, nearly 1 billion…
KYC and AML: How Identity Checks Secure Payment Systems
When you make a payment online, transfer funds, or open a new financial account, a set of invisible but powerful processes springs into action behind the scenes. Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) protocols are the backbone of…
Binance Launches U.S. Stocks Trading and Previews bStocks Tokenized Securities
Binance introduced U.S. equities trading, giving eligible users access to more than 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs. The launch reflects Binance’s belief that financial inclusion grows meaningfully when access to opportunities becomes simpler and more integrated. Binance will also soon…
Liberia Secures $125m Boost for Energy, Digital Connectivity
Liberia has signed a series of major financing agreements with the World Bank to accelerate development across energy, digital connectivity, and transport infrastructure, in a move aimed at supporting long-term economic transformation and regional integration. The signing ceremony was held…
Healthcare systems cannot fund what they cannot measure
Every day, healthcare funders make decisions based on data. They know how many patients were admitted to the hospital. They know how many procedures were performed. They know how many days a hospital bed was occupied. These activities are measured,…
Fortune 500 solar manufacturer enters SA market
SOLARWORLD Africa and IBC SOLAR South Africa (Pty) Ltd, this week announced a significant new partnership that will bring Tongwei’s premium photovoltaic (PV) modules to the South African market. As the first preferred distributors in the country to announce the…
HashKey MENA Pilots Stablecoin Payment Corridor Linking Africa and the Middle East
HashKey MENA, a Dubai-based virtual asset exchange licensed by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), has launched a pilot initiative to explore regulated stablecoin-powered settlement flows for cross-border trade between the Middle East and Africa.The company has signed a Corridor…
Farhat Bengdara is The Economist Who Ran the Oil Field
A profile of one of the Arab world’s most versatile financial and energy executives, and what three decades of institutional leadership actually produced. Farhat Bengdara was appointed governor of the Central Bank of Libya in March 2006, at 39 years…
EthioPay-IPS Surpasses 1 Million Daily Transactions, Processing Over ETB 5 Billion
BPC, a leading global payment software and service company, today announced that EthSwitch, Ethiopia’s national payment switch, a share company owned by the National Bank of Ethiopia, public and private banks, MFIs, PIIs and PSOs, has reached a major milestone…
Spiro Secures $215M to Accelerate Africa’s EV Revolution
African electric mobility company Spiro has secured a landmark $215 million investment round to accelerate the expansion of its electric vehicle (EV) and battery-swapping infrastructure across the continent. The funding, backed by major institutional investors including Impact Fund Denmark and…
