Absa Launches App for Retail and Business Customers

Absa

Financial Services Group Absa Bank has launched its much-anticipated App as part of its strategic digital journey, which forms part of its ambition of becoming the Go-To bank in South Africa. The App builds on a strong foundation of infrastructure developments while leveraging shared global resources to deliver value to customers. The technological capability built

I&M Bank partners with MasterCard to launch Kenya’s first multi-currency Prepaid card

I&M Bank has announced a partnership with MasterCard that will see the introduction of the first ever MasterCard branded multi-currency Prepaid travel cards in Sub-Saharan Africa. The I&M MasterCard multi-currency Prepaid cards will enable cardholders to carry three currencies, namely: U.S. Dollars, Sterling Pounds and Euros on a single card, while at the same time

FNB Enables Money Transfer to Zimbabwe through Cellphone Banking

FNB has launched a service for FNB customers in SA to send money to residents in Zimbabwe using its Cellphone Banking channel. “FNB’s Zimbabwe Money Transfer service is more convenient and economical than anything else offered in the market,” says Yolande van Wyk, Head of Digital and Alternative Banking for FNB Africa. Recently, research data

PASA Mandates 3D Secure for all Online Payments

The Payments Association of South Africa has mandated the implementation and usage of 3D Secure for all merchants that process Card not Present transactions.  The first implementation date was the 2nd of April 2013. The need for additional protection against unauthorised use of cards arose due to the significantly increasing fraud in this area.  It

DataCash Launches Next Generation Global Fraud & Risk Management Solution

Global payments services provider, DataCash – a MasterCard company, announced the launch of GateKeeper:2.0. Aimed at online merchants and acquiring banks from a white label perspective, Gatekeeper:2.0 utilises advanced technologies and innovation to offer superior end-to-end fraud monitoring, detection and prevention. The GateKeeper solution currently screens over 30 million transactions per month, from 30,000 merchants

Bank of Kigali chooses iVeri to Introduce e-Commerce to Rwanda

Bank of Kigali Limited, the largest bank in Rwanda has received an e-Payment Gateway from iVeri Payment Technologies, a provider of multi-channel e-payment solutions, making it the first bank in Rwanda to acquire e-Commerce merchant transactions. The iVeri Payment Gateway software will allow merchants in Rwanda to offer e-commerce services through their websites, a service

South African supreme court of appeal rules in favour of SASSA and Net1

Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that a full bench of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (“Appeal Court”) unanimously ruled that the tender process followed by the South African Social Security Agency (“SASSA”) in awarding a contract to Net1’s wholly owned subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (Proprietary) Limited (“CPS”) was valid and legal.