Sep 3, 2018
African GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth continues to fall short of the magic 5% annual figure often given as the number needed to make a substantial dent in poverty. In South Africa, again officially the continent’s biggest economy, growth went negative in...
Aug 31, 2018
Old Mutual is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring a series of services to the markets in which the company operates. Vuyo Mpako, chief digital and data officer at Old Mutual, says working with AWS allows the financial services giant to bring innovation and...
Aug 30, 2018
Robo-advisors have come a long way since their launch more than a decade ago. Providing financial advice or online investment management with minimum human intervention, people have become more open to them in today’s digital environment. Stuart Blyth, director...
Aug 29, 2018
South African investment administration services provider Curo has implemented Infovest’s Investment Data Management solution to automate reporting and alerting, support data governance and enhance customer service. With Infovest Investment Data Management (IDM) and...
Aug 13, 2018
Independent pan-African banking group Ecobank has announced the finalists for the second edition of the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge, a competition for Africa-focused technology start-ups. The list includes 11 fintech start-ups from across the continent and...
Aug 10, 2018
The latest update to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a small but important one. PCI DSS 3.2.1 does away with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and early-Transport Layer Security (TLS), the common cryptographic protocols consumers use to connect...
