Kenyan bank partners with SimbaPay

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya has partnered with SimbaPay, a digital money transfer provider, to offer international money transfer services to the bank’s customers in the Diaspora. Co-operative Bank accounts receiving the funds will be credited instantly. The...

Standard Bank expands in Africa

Standard Bank Group has expanded its already extensive East African footprint with the official opening of a representative office in Ethiopia. This means that Standard Bank, which is Africa’s largest bank by assets, has a continent-wide footprint in 20 African...

Newgen Software for Union Bank of Nigeria

Newgen Software, a leading global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Communication Management (CCM), and Adaptive Case Management (ACM) solutions is pleased to announce its partnership with Union Bank of...

West African business look to digitalisation

West African enterprises that want to keep pace with a changing consumer, employee and business landscape need to invest in the right business management solutions that will enable them to digitise their business processes. That’s the word from Magnus Nmonwu,...

Prepaid data roaming heralds shift for African M2M

Kees Snijders, MD of Flickswitch, believes the recent introduction by Vodacom of a prepaid data roaming solution could have a significant impact on the machine-to-machine (M2M) market in Africa. “While Vodacom is not the first operator to go the prepaid data...

MoneyGram, Econet partner for Zim transfers

MoneyGram and Econet Wireless have announced a new service that enables customers from more than 200 countries and territories worldwide to transfer funds via EcoCash, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile money transfer solution. The new offering means that more than...