SMEs can now take up credit on FNB App

As part of its commitment to help grow SMEs through lending, FNB now enables businesses to completely take up credit and investments via the FNB App. It says that this innovation, another first for the industry, allows businesses with an annual turnover between R0 and...

Email a primary vehicle for cybercriminals

Security specialist Mimecast has unveiled its third-annual State of Email Security report which includes insights from 1 025 global IT decision-makers. As cybercriminals continue to use email as a primary vehicle to steal data and deliver advanced threats, the results...

Phishers, spammers target travellers

Kaspersky Lab researchers tracking the activity of malicious spammers and phishers have uncovered multiple operations during May seeking to exploit people’s desire to secure a good bargain. Among other things, the researchers found more than 8 000 phishing...

Future of self-service is customer-led automation

In order to cope with the avalanche of digital information and activities, customers — like organisations — will increasingly turn to automation moving forward, according to Gartner. “There is often a lot of discussion about how organisations...
Exonomics drives exponential change in the financial world

Exonomics drives exponential change in the financial world

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Exponential Finance Summit in Cape Town – In an exponential world, new and exponential business models are coming to the fore and, in this environment, a new term – exonomics – is becoming more relevant. Amin Toufani,...

SAICA and UJ address 4IR

In his 2019 State of the Nation Address, President Ramaphosa said South Africa had chosen to be a country of the future at a time when the world was changing at a pace and in a manner that was unprecedented in human history. Together, SAICA and the University of...