Access Bank outlines vision for the future of African banking

At the recent Bloomberg Africa Business Summit, some of the continent’s most influential banking leaders convened to address a defining question for Africa’s economic trajectory: How can the continent sustainably fund its own growth in an increasingly interconnected...

G20 was ultimately a triumph for SA and Africa

The recent G20 summit in Johannesburg, which included a final declaration, transcended the anticipated geopolitical storms. By Hugh Hacking, executive head of structured investments and annuities at Momentum Corporate Despite the highly publicised boycott by the US...
Essential functions for AI transformation to fuel Africa’s growth

Essential functions for AI transformation to fuel Africa’s growth

I’ve just returned from Dreamforce 2025 in San Francisco, where leaders from around the world were talking about what comes next in the “agentic era” – a future where AI systems don’t just automate tasks, but plan, reason and act independently to achieve complex...

Will AI magnify or remedy financial literacy in Africa?

Before November 2023, generative artificial intelligence (AI) was a foreign concept for most, limited to the sci-fi genre and technical experts. That permanently changed when ChatGPT was launched in the public domain by OpenAI, writes Nick Manterfield, chief executive...