Remote working requires greater workforce support

Remote working has become part of the standard operating procedure of many companies across industry sectors. By Annalie Terblanche at SilverBridge Holdings At the very least, business leaders have embraced a hybrid environment where employees split their time between...

QR payments take off with businesses, consumers

Although already on a steep adoption curve, Covid has fast tracked many organisations’ digital payments strategies. QR codes in particular are finding favour amongst major South African banks. Capitec’s most recent peer2peer (P2P) account-based payment...

Banking as a Service helps traditional banks stay relevant

Years, and sometimes decades, of patchwork additions as new products and services were added have left many banks with a real tech headache. Now, as they struggle with the challenges of open banking and more recently the rise of embedded banking, traditional banks are...

2022: opportunities and challenges for the insurance sector

Despite lingering concerns about the impact of Covid-19 variants, the GIB Group is positive about growth prospects for the industry in 2022, writes CEO By Jurie Erwee. The expected accelerating global economic recovery will encourage the demand for insurance. With...

The evolution of the African payment landscape

While South Africa may lag behind other countries in some areas, its banking and payments industry is rated among the best in the world. The entire continent has needed to be resourceful to innovate with payment methods, to serve the banked, underbanked and unbanked....