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 •
Comments Off on Standard Bank turns tweets into stationery with Tweet Machine campaign
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...
January 20, 2017 •
Finance, Top Stories •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Standard bank introduces Shyft, a foreign exchange app
Standard Bank has introduced Shyft, a platform that enables customers personal foreign exchange transactions from their mobile devices. The global wallet is now available on Android and Apple stores. Customers are able to buy and store 4 currencies at a time...
Standard Bank has acquired a majority stake in Firepay – the team behind mobile payments product, SnapScan. Firepay was formed in 2013 to apply new mobile payments technology to build innovative products. In 2014 Firepay, in partnership with Standard...
Standard Bank launched a first-of-its kind smartphone and tablet game-like animated banking app for children. The Standard Bank Kidz Banking App is available initially only to Android users, it is designed primarily for kids between the ages of 6 and 11, and...
September 23, 2016 •
Finance •
NetAdmin •
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More consumers are seeking online solutions, with over 460 million financial transactions processed by Standard Bank on mobile devices between July 2015 and July 2016. Of these, 23 million transactions refer to value transactions amounting to R92 billion, a...
Africa’s digital economy is slowly evolving, showing huge potential for the continents transformation towards a cashless society. Whilst the progress has been slow, African countries share some of the world’s highest speeds of digital growth. Electronic...
At an exclusive event, which was held in Johannesburg South Africa, WeChat revealed that it has extended its features with the introduction of a digital wallet service. According to the company, like a physical wallet, you can securely store your bank cards...
Standard Bank, a bank based in South South Africa, has issued a statement which revealed that the financial institution is currently experiencing slow responses on some of its banking platforms. According to the statement issued by the bank, “customers...
April 16, 2015 •
Top Stories •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Standard Bank unveils multiple incubators for entrepreneurs
Standard Bank launched two incubators on the 16 April 2015 with the aim to educate, create, empower and develop entrepreneurs. According to the company the new incubators are Standard Bank-owned brick-and-mortar facilities where entrepreneurs can test,...
