Standard Bank decided to migrate its on-premise Atlassian toolset onto the AWS infrastructure and partnered with Synthesis to ensure best practices were adhered to and a seamless transition was possible. Challenge A number of significant outages were experienced on this toolset due to the on-premise infrastructure having aged. Users were faced with an increase in outages
How Mobile and Innovative Financial Service Solutions can shape resilient societies across Africa by acting as a catalyst of financial inclusion and entrepreneurship Author: Pat Adams SADC Banking Association Developing financial resilience with Fintech The 16 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have a combined estimated population of 345 million,32% of which
Diebold Nixdorf, a global leader in driving connected commerce for the retail and banking industries, has expanded its strategic partnership with bp to provide an integrated solution comprised of hardware, software and managed services. bp extended its multi-year, managed services agreement with Diebold Nixdorf and will leverage DN AllConnect ServicesSM globally to drive its transformation journey as it
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has embarked on a study to investigate the feasibility, desirability and appropriateness of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as electronic legal tender, for general-purpose retail use, complementary to cash. A retail CBDC can be defined as a digital form of cash aimed at providing the best attributes of
Digital and financial solutions specialists, MoData, have partnered with Renovite Technologies to deliver leading-edge cloud-native payment technology solutions to clients in Africa, which will enable them to modernise their core payment system with the convergence of physical and digital channels, providing for a seamless customer experience. The partnership will give banks and retailers in the
Temenos, the banking software company, is accelerating its leadership in the cloud by introducing the next-generation in SaaS For the first time, banks can now self-provision the most complete banking services at the click of a button; With Temenos (www.Temenos.com), banks can innovate in minutes and launch new products in days to achieve the industry’s
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial services provider, has been awarded the 2021 ‘’Retail Banking CEO of the Year Nigeria’’, ‘’Most innovative Retail Banking App Nigeria’’ and ‘’Best CSR Bank Nigeria’’ awards by Global Banking and Finance magazine. The respective awards conferred on the Bank are in recognition of the indelible
Vivo Energy Uganda, the company that distributes and markets Shell-branded fuels and lubricants in Uganda, together with National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Uganda Breweries Limited, Stanbic Bank and Next Media Services have partnered to promote sustainable environmental protection in a new educative campaign dubbed ‘Taasa Obutonde,’ which means ‘Let us save the environment.’ The campaign,
The Managing Director of GCB Bank Ltd, Mr Kofi Adomakoh, has decribed Ghana’s digital transformation agenda as laudable. He cautioned that, while pursuing digitilisation goals, “we must take cognisance of the inherent risks associated with digital transformation such as cyber-security, fraud, data and privacy breaches.” Addressing the 5th CEO Summit in Accra in the presence
$2.0 million USD to be extended to qualifying MSMEs The African Union Development Agency NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) and the Ecobank Group (ecobank.com) its strategic partner on the development of the 100,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Initiative, are set to launch the financing component as from 27 May 2021. AUDA-NEPAD launched the 100,000 MSMEs Programme
