MePIN and UnoTelos Secure e-banking in West Africa

MePIN, the global provider of fast and strong customer and payment authentication, has signed a partnership with UnoTelos, a leading Multi System Integrator company in the West African markets. Banks and payment providers need strong user authentication to protect their online services and customers against fraud. Traditional and legacy user authentication and transaction authorization slows

Barclays Bank Tanzania to ‘Reward’ Depositors

Barclays Bank Tanzania existing and new customers with salary accounts with the bank stand a chance of winning up to 5m/- in its newly campaign dubbed ‘Switch’ to begin next month. The Product Manager of Barclays Bank Tanzania, Mr Valence Lutenganya, said in Dar es Salaam over the weekend that the campaign focuses on employed customers

Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa Points to the Growing Importance of Digital Business

Gartner, Inc.’s “Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa, 2015″ report identifies over 30 key technologies and describes how they will impact business performance during the next 10 years. “The Hype Cycle aims to help global strategic officers and domestic CIOs from the private and public sectors take account of the current state of important technologies

Bharti Airtel And Uber Announce First-Of-Its-Kind Strategic Partnership

We are thrilled to announce an innovative collaboration with Bharti Airtel – the largest wireless carrier in India and third largest wireless carrier in the world. Through this partnership, riders in India can pay for their trips with Airtel’s mobile wallet, Airtel Money. Additionally, Mumbaikars will now be the first in India to enjoy free

DHL Africa Launches Pocket-Sized, All-Touch Computers

The rise of e-commerce and increased competition are driving the demand for real-time supply chain visibility. This is according to Oliver Facey, Vice President of Operations for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa, who says that supply chain operators should increasingly invest in transportation management systems and solutions to improve the quality, speed and precision of service.

Tigo Pesa and Worldremit Enable Easy International Money Transfers for the Tanzanian Diaspora

Millicom, announced that Tigo Pesa, its Mobile Financial Services in Tanzania, has joined with WorldRemit, the London-based online peer to peer money transfer service. The partnership will enable the Tanzanian diaspora to directly send money to families and friends back home through their smartphones, tablets and computers. Announcing the launch in Dar es Salaam today,

eCommerce Awards Top 50 Websites

The 2015 South African eCommerce Awards continued to see solid growth this year, with more than 200 websites entering the awards. The awards, now in their 10th year, are designed to recognise and reward those South African websites that have demonstrated excellence in their use of the Internet as a platform for commerce. Through a

Bank M Marks Eight Years of ‘big’ Success

Bank M Tanzania marks the eighth anniversary, registering tremendous success from its operations during the period, the firm announced. The bank’s assets currently stands at 809.09bn/-, which is equivalent to 2,509 per cent growth over the asset level at the end of the first year of the bank. Bank M’s Chief Executive Officer, Ms Jacqueline

CRDB Bank Right Issue Gets Impressive Success

CRDB right issue has been subscribed successfully by full amount thanks to three underwriters who bought the remaining amount. The bank in June 26, staged the right issue in a bid to raise slightly over 150bn/- to finance the firm’s expansion drive and meeting the regulator’s minimum core capital requirement. The bank’s shareholders bought 70.5

Intex Technologies Partners with JUMIA in Côte d’Ivoire

A strategic alliance has been concluded between JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire and Intex Technologies. The Indian company chose the e-commerce leader to sell its products in Côte d’Ivoire. This alliance provides the brand with access to the growing Ivorian telephony market and reinforces JUMIA’s supply in a very competitive segment. The two companies have worked quietly