Aug 24, 2022
Unemployment in South Africa is at its highest ever, this can be blamed on the global economic down turn and Covid-19 and other local factors, however we must be positioning our industry for the recovery which will inevitably ensue. In order to be ready for the IR4.0...
Aug 24, 2022
When I founded MFS Africa more than a decade ago, I set a simple measure of success for the business: to facilitate access for my mom’s honey business in Porto-Novo, Benin, to collect payments from her customers from across the continent – and to make the...
Aug 23, 2022
The financial services sector is the recipient of dramatic digital transformation, writes Daniel Goldberg, co-founder and CEO of Bridgement. We may be familiar with the more consumer-facing elements such as the proliferation of mobile banking and internet banking, but...
Aug 22, 2022
The South African payment ecosystem will need to increase co-operation if it hopes to reduce the country’s over-reliance on cash. And, while the regulator still has a big part to play in the solution, flipping the way payments are generally incentivised in...
Aug 17, 2022
Millennials have received an especially bad reputation in the media over the past decade, characterised as lazy and entitled, and attributed as the reason for the so-called “death” of a number of industries, from the diamond industry to even beer and...
Aug 17, 2022
When South Africa became the first country in the world to launch Authenticated Collections (Debicheck), replacing EDO (AEDO & NAEDO) with DebiCheck in 2021, consumers and merchants breathed a collective sigh of relief. Now Registered Mandate Services (RMS)...
