The South African Society of Bank Officials (SASBO) – which boasts of a whopping 50 000 members, making it the most prominent financial union in the country – is set to undertake a nation-wide strike on Friday, 27 September. The union wants to...
Remote biometric digital authentication company, iiDENTIFii, has enabled Standard Bank to offer its Shyft App to non-Standard Bank customers through remote identity verification. With the iiDENTIFii solution in place, non-Standard bank users can open a Shyft...
Standard Bank has identified eight key areas of potential cooperation between South Africa and Nigeria, which the two countries could use to spur faster economic growth and improve the living standards of their citizens. Africa’s two biggest economies...
Standard Bank has recently launched short-term insurance chatbot together with new online functionality for wealth clients in a move to becoming the leading integrated financial services organisation in, for and across Africa. Deepesh Thomas has been...
Standard Bank Group and Microsoft announced a new strategic partnership that will help to transform the bank’s technology estate and internal corporate functions, enabling the bank to accelerate its digital transformation journey significantly improving its...
Founders Factory Africa (FFA) and Standard Bank have announced that they have selected and invested into the first five fintech startup businesses in Africa. Founders Factory Africa is a South African company operating across Africa delivering a...
April 18, 2019 •
Finance, Security •
Fundi Maseko •
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Standard Bank has launched a consumer education programme, WalletWise which aims to empower consumers with knowledge that enables them to make more informed decisions about their finances and lifestyle. The programme aims at tackling financial topics of...
January 30, 2019 •
Finance •
Neo Sesinye •
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Credit cards are all about convenience – in-store, online or overseas. Using credit now and gaining long-term financial benefits may seem like worlds apart. That’s about to change. Professional Provident Society (PPS), the financial services company...
November 11, 2018 •
Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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From new innovations and digital transformation, growing economies to emerging startups, it’s been an insightful week across Africa’s ICT sector. This week, Microsoft unveiled some of the core features of its latest operating system, Windows 10....
Angola has a strong relationship with China, which offers diplomatic backing for the state. With that said, Standard Bank has recently launched Chinese internet banking in Angola with hopes of installing to the rest of the continent by 2019. The growing...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced it will open an infrastructure region in South Africa in the first half of 2020. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will consist of three Availability Zones. Currently,...
August 30, 2018 •
Online & Social •
NetAdmin •
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Standard Bank to launch first of its kind social campaign on Twitter to show that inspiring and positive tweets can be turned into tangible educational tools with the help of 3D printing and laser cutters. For every action there’s an equal and opposite...
Politics once again played a major role in South Africa’s Google searches this week, thanks largely to the announcement of Cyril Ramaphosa’s reshuffled cabinet. In the wake of the announcement, people scrambled to find out more about the people...
The global head of TMT for African bank, Standard Bank, is predicting continuing deal flow and increasing investment in Africa’s flourishing telecom, media and technology sector in 2018, against a backdrop of improving economic growth and increasingly...
February 7, 2018 •
Finance, Top Stories •
NetAdmin •
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On Monday 5 February 2018 Standard Bank and UnionPay International announced that the companies have entered into a partnership which will see the bank accept UnionPay cards in multiple African markets. The companies believe that the dual development is set...
Standard Bank, announced today that they have dropped their data charges on their mobile banking app. This means that Standard Bank customers will no longer be charged for data, no matter what network they are on, when using the Standard Bank app. This...
