Sep 15, 2017
There’s a surprising way in which leading financial services companies are pulling away from the pack, writes Hemkumar Balaraman, project manager: Africa at Wipro.Recent years have seen South African banks compete in a key battleground: the mighty mobile...
Sep 6, 2017
We are in the midst of a digital revolution that is fundamentally changing the way we do business, the way businesses operate, and how they interact with both customers and competitors. The world is gradually moving online in its entirety, one device — one thing...
Aug 31, 2017
Darrel Orsmond, financial services industry head at SAP Africa, believes the insurance industry is facing its very own Kodak moment. Forty years after the once heart-warming 1970s ad slogan became part of popular culture, it now reminds one more of the company’s...
Aug 22, 2017
Women are steadily catching up to men when it comes to cashing in on the convenience of sending and receiving money via eWallet on the FNB App. The latest data revealed by FNB eWallet Solutions shows that in the six months to June 2017 the percentage eWallet sends by...
Aug 22, 2017
Data has always played an important role when making informed decisions in the insurance industry, writes Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. In the past, data was gathered through face-to-face interactions with clients. Brokers and insurers shaped their...
Aug 18, 2017
Blockchain, the digital ledger that underpins cryptocurrency bitcoin, is a software platform for digital assets. It’s a clever piece of distributed database technology that is waging a silent revolution that could take it way beyond its financial roots to radically...