May 31, 2019
Education is critical to moving South Africa forward. It can help to solve skills gaps and contribute towards decreasing unemployment and poverty, and growing GDP. Technology is a central enabler in this context, and can improve access to quality of and engagement...
May 30, 2019
Could open banking usher in a new era of convenience, access and service differentiation? It’s a tantalising possibility, but not one without potential security pitfalls which must be closely managed and mitigated. Done properly, concept of pen banking can...
May 24, 2019
In their drive to be digitally relevant and hold market share, both traditional and digital banks run the risk of losing customers by reducing human interaction. This is the warning from Bardien Pienaar, GM at Merchants. He says that, in an environment where consumers...
May 23, 2019
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about systems taken for granted because they’ve always been there and they’ve always worked. By Martin Grunewald, executive head: payments business at BankservAfrica Take the load shedding that we experienced in the first months of 2019...
May 20, 2019
Pieter Engelbrecht, business unit manager at HPE Aruba, discusses how the high street can unlock the future of retail. It’s clear that the retail landscape is in a state of major transformation. Thanks to disruptive technologies and changing consumer behaviour,...
May 16, 2019
The only thing with less impact than a delegate reading a PowerPoint presentation to an audience at a conference is a looping in-store video. Industrial Revolution, a long-time provider of quality IT and related solutions to local business, is set to change the...
