Dec 17, 2019
Fintech start-ups have transformed the market for consumer lending in the US and other mature credit markets, by giving people an alternative way of borrowing money without having to go through a bank or a traditional lending institution. We see a similar trend...
Dec 2, 2019
In the 1980s and early 1990s, South Africa was viewed as having one of the most modern payments system in the world. By Martin Grunewald, executive head: payments business at BankservAfrica Since then, we haven’t necessarily kept up with continuous modernisation...
Nov 22, 2019
After a long period of debate as to whether the hype is justified, the time of insurtech is at hand, with innovators in this sector helping to reinvigorate insurance with tech-driven business models that completely transform the customer experience. That’s the...
Nov 18, 2019
.If the crystal ball-gazers are to be believed, hardly any of us will own our own cars in the next 10 years. By Gideon Galloway, CEO of King Price We won’t even do our own driving, as fleets of self-driving cars whoosh us silently to where we want to go. And as...
Nov 14, 2019
How well do you know your clients? Probably not as well as you think. Certainly not as well as they’d like you to. Dr Eugene Wessels, partner: data analytics at King Price Insurance But that’s all changing. Clients aren’t just demanding greater...
Nov 1, 2019
With more than enough of our own political highs and lows to occupy our headlines, the vagaries of British politics don’t often win the spotlight at South African dinner tables. By Nic Haralambous, chief operating officer of Coindirect But the looming Brexit...