May 18, 2016
Envestnet Yodlee, a data aggregation and data analytics platform powering cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, has announced a strategic partnership with AlphaCode, a collaborative club for next-generation financial services entrepreneurs in South...
May 16, 2016
A partnership between home-grown fintech-preneurs and one of South Africa’s largest discount retailers is set to help small businesses by allowing them to transform their phone into a secure mobile point of sale (mPOS) terminal. They will be able to process...
May 10, 2016
Hello Paisa, an offering from leading service provider Hello Group has been announced as a semi-finalist in the 2016 African Start-up Challenge hosted by Innotribe. Hello Paisa is a mobile phone based international money transfer service that allows migrants in South...
Apr 15, 2016
South Africans can now instantly compare 26 financial products from 106 financial institutions to be able to save money and to choose the products which best suits their needs. These range from loans (including personal and student loans), cheque accounts and debit...
Apr 12, 2016
Accenture and Avanade have announced a solution dedicated to helping financial services firms transform their customer experience through greater personalisation in a digital world. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft and built on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
Apr 11, 2016
The World Bank’s Global Findex financial inclusion study shows that 12% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa have mobile money accounts – compared to just 2% worldwide – and of these 64 million adults, 45% of them have only a mobile money account, writes...
