Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest bank by assets, has received a number of industry awards from Global Finance, presented on the side-lines of the annual 2019 SIBOS conference held in London. “We are pleased to have received these awards which serve as recognition of our Africa-focused strategy, and bear testament to our role in continuing
Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTC), Botswana’s fastest and widely available mobile network, has revamped and introduced SMEGA, its mobile money service. SMEGA now works on Comviva’s mobiquity® Money platform, one of the world’s largest white-labeled mobile money platform. SMEGA offers consumers a quick, convenient and secure way to perform financial transactions from the comfort of
BP and Masana Petroleum Solutions are set to revolutionise commercial fuel payment and management for their customers, with the launch of a new solution BP FleetMove built on the advanced Payment24 platform. Payment24, advanced international fuel payment system, is the backbone of two new flagship fuel payment and fuel management offerings for BP and Masana
Early this year, Orange Money Botswana and EcoCash launched a new partnership to enable better and more affordable access to digital money transfers between Zimbabwe and Botswana. Powered by TransferTo’s global mobile payments network, this service now allows Zimbabwean diaspora, living in Botswana, to use their Orange Money digital wallet to send money back home
Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) is the first payment service provider (PSP) in Africa to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification in 12 African countries. This comes after the successful completion of comprehensive audits in the Group’s global headquarters and all its other markets which include Kenya, Tanzania,
Zimpost‘s recently launched money transfer service, Zipcash, has been extended to Botswana.With effect from 27 August 2014, Zipcash customers can now send or receive money to and from Botswana. Plans to extend the same service to South Africa are also at an advanced stage, with testing already concluded. Zimpost launched Zipcash in December 2013. The
Barclays Bank of Botswana, has partnered with Bytes Managed Solutions, the exclusive distributor of NCR technology solutions in southern Africa, for the installation of intelligent cash deposit ATMs. Last month, the bank launched a new generation of ATMs that provide customers with convenient ways of banking outside the banking halls. The ATMs are specifically designed
While banking and payments is still considered a mainly a ‘boy’s club’ with few women holding top positions both in Africa and internationally we thought we would highlight some of the woman who are making their mark in the African banking and payments landscape. 1. Maria Ramos – Chief Executive of Africa, Barclays Maria Ramos
Botswana’s national annual inflation kept the downward trend in November, dropping to 4.1 percent from 4.8 percent in October, and is expected to further remain low supposed factors remain favorable, Statistics Botswana (SB) has reported. Data authority said that the inflation stood at as high as 7.4 percent during the same month in last year,
