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Tigo Tanzania Achieves Global Mobile Money Certification

Tigo Tanzania’s mobile financial services business, Tigo Pesa, has received the GSMA Mobile Money Certification, recognizing Tigo’s ability to deliver safe, transparent, reliable and more resilient services that promote consumer Read More →

Apr 16, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1687

BankservAfrica Processes Record Volume of Electronic Transactions in March

BankservAfrica, Africa’s largest automated payments clearing house, cleared the highest volume of electronic funds transfers (EFTs) on record in March of 89 million and at a value of R847 billion. Most Read More →

Apr 12, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1687

PayPal, Safaricom and TransferTo Announce Collaboration in Kenya

PayPal and Safaricom announced a revolutionary collaboration that enables Kenyans to seamlessly move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts. The new service eliminates significant barriers that have hindered consumers Read More →

Apr 10, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1687

AlphaCode Calls on SA to Become a Fintech Centre of Excellence

“Now that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has established a fintech programme to track and analyse developments, South Africa has all that is required to become a fintech centre Read More →

Apr 4, 2018 Staff Reporter

Banking 696

Capitec Releases Results for Year End February 2018

Capitec Bank’s most recent annual financial results for the year ending February 2018 shows that the bank’s strategy to grow its active client base to nearly 10 million – with Read More →

Mar 27, 2018 Staff Writer

Banking 696

South Africa Launches 2025 Vision for its National Payment’s System

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) published The National Payment System Framework and Strategy Vision 2025 which sets out the goals and strategies for the national payments industry, aimed at building Read More →

Mar 20, 2018 Staff Reporter

Companies 689

NCR Launches Innovative SelfServ 80 Series ATMs in South Africa

NCR Corporation, a global provider of omni-channel solutions, announced the launch of NCR SelfServ™ 80 Series, a new family of ATM solutions that will help financial institutions redefine the banking Read More →

Mar 19, 2018 Staff Reporter

Banking 696

Standard Chartered Bank Launches its First-Ever Digital Bank in Africa

Standard Chartered Bank has announced the official launch of its digital bank in Côte d’Ivoire. This marks the Bank’s first digital bank in Africa and the first-of-its-kind to open in Read More →

Mar 19, 2018 Staff Reporter

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Zenith Bank Partners Facebook and Mastercard to Pioneer QR Payments on Facebook Messenger

Zenith Bank has confirmed that it is in a strategic partnership with Facebook and Twitter to launch a Masterpass QR bot for Facebook messenger, that will enable Nigerian businesses set Read More →

Mar 16, 2018 Staff Reporter

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NIC Bank Becomes First in East Africa to Implement Modern NCR Interactive ATMs

NIC Bank Kenya has partnered with NCR Corporation a global provider of omni-channel solutions, to launch NCR Interactive Teller, an innovative ATM-based technology that not only lets people talk to Read More →

Mar 16, 2018 Staff Reporter