For most people, the ability to create and preserve wealth for the benefit of future generations is one of the key measures of true financial success. It’s also one of the most difficult aspects of wealth creation and management to get right. That is why successful wealth creators benefit from partnering with experienced family governance
Standard Bank has emerged as the most valuable banking brand on the African continent for 2022 in Brand Finance’s annual ranking of the world’s Top 500 Banking Brands, after increasing its brand value by 26% to USD1.583 billion. This significant increase in brand value has seen Africa’s largest financial services organisation by assets jump 17
Putting customer experience front and centre of your business goals is guaranteed to reap rewards for both customers and staff and positively impact your bottom line. The most effective way to do this is to take a holistic approach to customer experience management (CEM) through the implementation of a streamlined omni-channel application platform that keeps
Absa Group Limited (AGL), in partnership with PureSoftware, have launched a digital wallet, Spark by Absa in Botswana. In addition, AGL have successfully migrated their Timiza mobile banking offering in Kenya to the Arttha platform powered by PureSoftware. Spark by Absa is an innovative bank account that lives outside the traditional bank branch and is
While South Africa may lag behind other countries in some areas, its banking and payments industry is rated among the best in the world. The entire continent has needed to be resourceful to innovate with payment methods, to serve the banked, underbanked and unbanked. Karen Nadasen, CEO of PayU South Africa and Chairperson of The
Years, and sometimes decades, of patchwork additions as new products and services were added have left many banks with a real tech headache. Now, as they struggle with the challenges of open banking and more recently the rise of embedded banking, traditional banks are increasingly turning to cloud-based Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform models
FNB now offers its customers the option of taking out a Retirement Annuity (RA) quicker and easier on the FNB Banking App without having to fill in lengthy forms. In less than three minutes, customers can get a retirement annuity digitally without paying financial advisor commissions or investment processing fees. The lower fees ensure that
The appointment of Sugendhree Reddy as Access Bank SA’s new CEO bodes well for the bank at the start of a new year after a successful launch in South Africa last year. With her 20-plus years of experience in the financial services sector, we extend a warm welcome to Ms Reddy and look forward to
Through its popular UCount Rewards programme, Standard Bank managed to put money back into the pockets of its customers over the 2021 year-end spending period, helping to stretch the holiday budgets of millions of South African consumers amid a challenging economic environment. Fayelizabeth Foster, Head of Loyalty and Rewards at Standard Bank South Africa, says
While 2020 brought significant disruptions to many industries on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 has been a year of recovery. Many sectors saw an uptick from a payments perspective, sustained despite impediments to business such as looting, loadshedding, port and rail disruptions, and further waves of COVID-19 infections. Hopefully this bodes well for
