Liberty launches Risk Revealer

Liberty has launched an industry first: Risk Revealer, a Web-based tool that allows potential and existing clients to calculate their level of lifestyle and accidental risk. Nicholas van der Nest, Divisional Director for Risk Product Management at Liberty, says the...

Financial institutions and disaster recovery

Business continuity in the payment industry is becoming more important than ever as most companies in Africa are ill prepared when it comes to disaster recovery, says Lionel Slowe, head of the SADC project at BankservAfrica. According to the latest EMC disaster...

Nedbank’s App Suite now upgraded

Off the back of its recent win of the “Best Android Consumer App” at the MTN App of the Year awards, Nedbank has released an upgraded version of the Nedbank App Suite. The updated release fits into the bank’s strategy to provide clients with a...

Online insurance platform from Absa

Absa’s 1,3-million online banking clients will be the first in South Africa to have access to fully integrated online insurance. With immediate effect, clients will be just a few clicks away from having access to a launch suite of six core short-term and life...

Moving to a new era of fraud prevention

While insurance companies have used tried and tested techniques for fraud detection for decades, high performance analytics now allows them to become proactive in identifying fraud before it happens, says Dr Tracy Dunbar, director of Analytics at BITanium. Fraudulent...

Intervate, KPMG host productivity event

KPMG, in partnership with South Africa’s foremost provider of enterprise information management (EIM) and process automation solutions, Intervate, hosted an event where KPMG presented the fifth annual Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey in Cape Town on 7 August 2013. The...