Dec 8, 2017
Bah humbug, bugs, bots and what you didn’t bargain for. By Martin Walshaw, senior systems engineer at F5 Networks. For online consumers, ’tis the season to be jolly. For businesses, it’s a time where the retail chain may be forged in life. For...
Dec 8, 2017
One of South Africa’s largest banks has adopted an expansion of the software platform provided to them by Synthesis Software Technologies, allowing them to easily monitor and analyse balance of payment (BoP) transactions. The expansion, comprising a system known...
Dec 1, 2017
The traditional insurance model is under pressure to meet the requirements of a digital environment. Partnerships between incumbents and insurtechs are becoming more commonplace and provides customers with alternative value propositions. JC Oberholzer, Group CIO at...
Dec 1, 2017
The word ‘change’ is a common one in retail settings. By Charles Pittaway, MD of Sage Pay When you try on clothing, you do so in the change room; if a dress you bought doesn’t fit or you change your mind, you exchange it and, with any luck, after...
Nov 30, 2017
Cisco has released seven free, self-enrol online courses to help South Africans to develop their digital skills, and has pledged to train an additional 100 000 students by 2020. Underpinned by the Cisco Networking Academy, which celebrates its 20th year in South...
Nov 29, 2017
The world’s first fully automated cryptocurrency-denominated bond issuance that is also cleared, settled and registered on a public blockchain infrastructure has been completed by Nivaura, a fintech company that developed a cloud-based service for the issuance...
