dotFNB offers interactive gesture technology
FNB’s cashless branch, dotFNB, has become the first bank in South Africa to launch interactive gesture technology in its flagship Canal Walk store. The introduction of this technology into the store front serves as yet another digital touch point for the bank to...
Cogenta launches multi-currency pricing tool
Leading retail intelligence technology group Cogenta has launched the first global multi-currency pricing intelligence tool for retailers, manufacturers, brand managers and researchers. The latest addition to the acclaimed Retail Insight range can convert retail...
Insurance provider invests in Dac Systems
Dac Systems, a Proudly South African national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products, has assisted with a seamless upgrade of Microsoft SharePoint Server as part of an infrastructure upgrade project for an insurance services provider in South...
Non-repudiation: the new security buzzword
Most fraud is committed by a company’s employees - the old cliché “It must have been an inside job” is right on the mark. Non-repudiation is the buzzword for security systems that discourage such practices and, if a fraud is committed, that enable companies to...
Digitalisation will force insurer agility
Leading international research group, Gartner, has identified digitalisation as one of the primary strategic objectives for insurers over the next two years. CIOs face significant pressures to quickly deliver measurable business outcomes from their IT investments,...
Nedbank acquires iNetco system
Driven by growth – it has signed up 2-million new individual and small business clients over the last two years – Nedbank has acquired the iNetco system to improve its operational efficiency in the face of growing transaction performance complexities. With Nedbank’s...
FastNet achieves PCI DSS compliance
In a bid to fight increasing card fraud, which is estimated to have cost $11,27-billion worldwide in 2012 (a 14,6% increase year-on-year), leading wireless data company, FastNet, has announced it has achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)...
Standard Bank opens Innovation Centre
Standard Bank has opened its first Innovation and Design Centre in Johannesburg. The centre is configured for technology-driven testing including mobile applications and will be accessed by both customers and staff, across personal and business banking. By putting...
Infrasoft accelerates core banking solutions
Infrasoft Technologies, a market leader with more than 130 core banking installations across more than 3 000 sites, accelerates the next generation cloud-based core banking solutions for the smaller financial institutions and co-operative banks. The solution helps the...
Quartile Capital protects data with HP
Established in 2008, Quartile Capital is a Johannesburg-based boutique financial services company. It is 100% black-owned and has a Level One broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) Contributor rating by Empowerdex. Quartile Capital provides corporate finance,...
MTN Rwanda deploys Ericsson solution
Ericsson has announced that MTN Rwanda has deployed its Converged Wallet m-commerce solution. The launch brings easy-to-use, next-generation mobile financial services to MTN Rwanda’s subscribers, including mobile phone users that do not have access to traditional...
Clickatell PIN-less airtime booms in Nigeria
AfricaCom 2013 provided visitors to the continent’s largest telecoms conference with deep insight into the rapid growth of data penetration and mobile services across Africa, with much of the focus on the subject of Mobile Money and related products. Clickatell, a...