The unique environment for financial services in Africa is fertile ground for disruptive new FinTech players who are capitalising on the opportunities to disrupt or leapfrog established business models to make financial services more relevant, affordable and accessible across the continent. The successful adoption of mobile money has revolutionized the financial services sector in Africa
In-store on the way out? Brick-and-mortar stores are under threat from all angles. From a payments perspective, the in-store checkout experience is increasingly incompatible with modern lifestyles and expectations. For example, 86% of consumers avoid stores with long queues, and frustration with waiting in line costs retailers billions in revenues each year. Too many retailers
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia – technology evangelist at Microsoft Konstantin Goldstein. On November 10, 2016 he will present corporation’s view of blockchain technology and scenarios of its application in business. Topic of the report of Konstantin Goldstein is “Blockchain as a new stage of technological development. Moving from words to code”. “Distributed ledger technology has the potential
More Secure Internet of Things: Intel and Visa are working together to integrate Visa’s encryption technology with Intel Data Protection Technology for Transactions as an option for merchants to provide more secure data transmission. Through the collaboration, payment data originating from an encryption-enabled device can be transmitted in a format that is unusable if intercepted
AEVI enabled BBPOS´Android-based terminal WisePOS to connect to the Global Marketplace, branching into easily mobile device options to provide more tailored solutions to customers. At this year’s Money 20/20, being held in Las Vegas, AEVI is making a statement about being a truly open ecosystem. The company is announcing its cooperation with hardware vendor BBPOS
