Global award for SA fintech
Omnisient, a South African-founded fintech that helps banks apply AI to anonymised and protected consumer data for credit scoring and precision marketing, has been named one of CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026. The recognition places Omnisient among a small...
Africa’s next growth story will be built on connectivity
Africa's trade corridors have long played a vital role in connecting the continent to global markets, writes Jacques Taylor, MD of Tata Africa. The conversation today is no longer about moving exports to ports; there is increasing focus on internal trade corridors,...
‘Prove you’re human’ is the wrong security question in agentic commerce
Bots are no longer the enemy, and the inversion dilemma is real, explains Judy Winn, CISO at Peach Payments. For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down. Over the last year, agentic commerce has...
Account management can’t be automated away
Automation promised efficiency, its delivered distance, writes Reshma Lutchman, head of sales at Euphoria Telecom. Name an industry and we’ll show you clients swimming in prepopulated emails, endless, unhelpful chatbot loops, and AI-generated follow-ups that feel like...
COFI is coming: cybersecurity challenges financial institutions must tackle now
South Africa's financial institutions face growing demands for conduct and compliance, and regulation is moving to keep pace. The Conduct of Financial Institutions (COFI) Bill, now before Parliament, will consolidate and tighten the rules the...
When the office is everywhere, so are the risks
The modern workplace extends beyond traditional office walls. It now exists in coffee shops, spare bedrooms, airport lounges, and co-working spaces. By Amritesh Anand, vice-president and MD: technology services group at In2IT Technologies Hybrid and remote work have...
African cities need intelligence, not just smart city infrastructure
I am less interested in whether a city can call itself smart than whether it can act intelligently when something goes wrong, writes Reshaad Sha, executive chairman of Sentiv. Too many smart city conversations still begin with the visible symbols of progress, for...
Connect security, privacy, AI governance to reduce information risk
Information security, privacy and artificial intelligence (AI) governance are often treated as separate disciplines. But, in practice, they are closely linked. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix AI systems rely on information, which often includes...
Threat detection is only useful when action is built in
In a Security Operations Centre (SOC), detection is measured by what happens after an alert appears on a screen. By Timothy Smith, director: sales at DigitalShield Many organisations now have tools that identify suspicious activity across endpoints, email, identity,...
Randburg licensing goes offline as consumables run out
Randburg licensing department yesterday shut its offices when a lack of stationery and consumables made it unable to render services. This, despite the booking and licensing process being largely online. A poorly-worded notice on the door of the licencing offices was...
Data Engineer (Cloud)
Role Purpose We are seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and optimise scalable data platforms and pipelines that support analytics, reporting, AI, and business intelligence. You will transform complex, high-volume data into trusted, analytics-ready datasets while...
Data Engineer (Cloud) – Gauteng Johannesburg
Role Purpose We are seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and optimise scalable data platforms and pipelines that support analytics, reporting, AI, and business intelligence. You will transform complex, high-volume data into trusted, analytics-ready datasets while...