Aug 10, 2017
Sandra Crous (Swanepoel), vice-president: midmarket Africa & Middle East at Sage, examines how companies can help employees with their personal development. I wasn’t always a fast runner. The thought of running my first 10km was terrifying. But, by putting...
Aug 10, 2017
The insurance industry has been characterised as traditionalist and conservative – an industry that is slow to change with limited consumer reach. Technology innovations can thus be regarded as the new frontier for the insurance industry as these new...
Aug 10, 2017
While it has become fashionable to position new technology implementations as part of a digital transformation process, the reality is that it takes effort and skill to unlock the value that technology provides. In our experience, clients want to improve operations...
Aug 8, 2017
In 2016 $5.5bn of venture capital investment went into payments startups. This represented 22% of global fintech investment activity. Dominique Collett, senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investments and the head of AlphaCode In South Africa, payments still...
Aug 7, 2017
Cash, and the ATM, are here to stay, despite the growth in use of digital payment channels. This is according to Allen Mahadeo, head of self-service channels and branchless banking at Absa, who believes that the writing is not yet on the wall for cash or for the...
Jul 28, 2017
It’s never been simpler to shop online. Flowers, sneakers, food, diplomas – you name it, you can buy it online. Except you can’t, if you don’t have a credit card. Two in three black teens in the US make purchases online, so retailers are...
