A few weeks ago during our Flutterwave 3.0 event, we promised to deepen our presence in markets across the African continent. We’re excited to be bringing our products to the great businesses and individuals in Tanzania after the Bank of Tanzania approved our license as a payment services provider. Our products and services will look
The Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place during the annual Sibos conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands in October 2022 Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leading Pan-African Banking Group, has won five prestigious awards at the Global Finance Treasury & Cash Management Awards 2022, including Africa’s Best Bank for Cash Management and Africa’s Best Provider of Short-Term Investments/Money
Mobile wallet penetration in the UAE to receive a boost Visitors from Africa will soon be able to make payments in the UAE seamlessly through their mobile wallets Mobile wallets continue to rise at the POS, jumping 55% YoY in 2021 across the Middle East and Africa* Dubai: Network International (Network), the leading enabler of
Project Dunbar developed two prototypes for a shared platform that could enable international settlements using digital currencies issued by multiple central banks. The platform was designed to facilitate direct cross-border transactions between financial institutions in different currencies, with the potential to cut costs and increase speed. The project identified challenges of implementing a multi-CBDC platform
Download the full report here In today’s economic climate, it is critical for banks and other financial institutions to retain their current customers while also attracting new ones. As a result, banks are attempting to create an easy, tailored, and frictionless end-to-end digital buying and contracting experience. Having the capability to digitally onboard customers simplifies
The first businesses in the Middle East and Africa region have started to experience the seamless ease of Mastercard’s Track Instant Pay solution, in partnership with leading pan-African fintech enablement partner, Ukheshe Technologies. Track Instant Pay is a next-generation virtual card solution that uses machine learning and straight-through processing to enable instant payment of supplier
Clickatell customers can now benefit by using Salesforce Order Management to send consumers a faster, more secure and convenient pay-by-link request via SMS and WhatsApp Clickatell, a CPaaS innovator and Chat Commerce leader, has announced it has launched the integration of its industry-leading Chat 2 Pay payment solution with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the fastest path
*Salient points Revenue increased 6% to R85.9billion Operating costs rose 4% to R47.4 billion Cost-to-income ratio decreased to 55.2% from 56% Pre-provision profit increased 7% to R38.5 billion Impairments fell 59% to R8.5 billion Headline earnings per share increased to 2197 cents from 946.5 cents Return on equity improved to 15.8% from 7.2% Group CET
When you give your sales team the right tools to effectively and efficiently manage clients and build a relationship with them, you positively impact your bottom line. 1Stream’s smart CRM is specifically designed to do just that and has helped transform organisations across various sectors in Southern Africa, which understand the value of building meaningful
Absa Group has signed agreements with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana, the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) and Grindstone in South Africa to support and collaborate in initiatives that are aimed at growing emerging technology and other businesses in Africa. The agreements expand Absa’s Digital Partnerships capability, established in 2020
