Julius Baer (Middle East) Ltd (JBME) has appointed Roy Zaatar as Managing Director, Senior Advisor and Group Head, joining its Middle East and Africa leadership team in Dubai as of 16 September 2026, according to a press release dated 28 September 2026. Zaatar leads a group of relationship managers covering the region and reports to
Absa Group, one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services providers, has selected Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, as a strategic Multicurrency Clearing (MCC) partner for the Group. The new collaboration builds on the two companies’ recent launch of Absa Global Pay in South Africa which demonstrated the value of combining the company’s
Kora, a pan-African payment infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of One Rail, expanding its payments infrastructure to support stablecoins. Through One Rail, merchants can seamlessly collect, hold, convert, and settle funds in digital currencies alongside traditional fiat payment rails. African businesses operating across borders face persistent structural challenges, including slow international settlement times, high foreign
Mukuru, the Pan-African fintech trusted by more than 17 million customers, today launched the Mukuru Account & Card in South Africa. The product is offered in partnership with Bank Zero, the licensed sponsor bank, and is enabled by Paymentology and Mastercard. The new proposition builds on Mukuru’s established remittance and card foundation, giving customers access to
SBV Services, for forty years, has played a critical role within the cash ecosystem, ensuring the secure processing, storage, movement, and distribution of cash across South Africa. As the organisation celebrates its 40th anniversary, SBV Services (SBV) Group CEO, Mark Barrett reflects on the company’s legacy, impact and enduring purpose as an organisation that is about
Walletdoc, one of South Africa’s leading payment technology companies, is bringing Visa Payment Passkeys to local merchants, enabling them to offer shoppers a faster, more secure and passwordless online checkout. South African shoppers can now skip the frustrating redirect to their bank and the one-time PINs that slow down online card payments and instead approve
AFRICLOUD, a cloud infrastructure company, has opened its third African region in Lagos and now accepts payment in local currency across West, Central, East and Southern Africa. Businesses across the continent can run servers in Nigeria, South Africa or Portugal from one account, and pay for them the way they already pay for everything else. Buying
Luno, a leading regulated digital asset platform operating across multiple emerging markets, has acquired GTXN, a cross-border payments company and fund manager in Kenya, and named Dan Kleinbaum as its chief executive officer. GTXN gives Luno the licensed rails to collect and pay out money across the corridors that link developed and emerging markets, offered
International Trade Centre (ITC) and The Access Africa Office, the coordinating office for the African subsidiaries of Access Bank Plc one of Africa’s leading pan-African financial institutions, establish a new partnership to boost access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises, and increase access to markets and skills training, in 14 African countries. The programme
Tyme Group today announced that GoTyme Bank has been named Best Digital Bank for Consumers at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2026 across both its South Africa and the Philippines operations—making it the leading digital bank in all the markets in which it operates. The award follows another year of exceptional growth for Tyme Group,
