Swan goes live on SSP Pure
Mauritius-based insurer Swan has gone live on SSP’s Pure platform, just over seven months after project commencement, delivering Phase One of the programme on time and within budget. Following a competitive selection process, Swan selected SSP’s Pure platform based on...
Mastercard partners with Mojaloop and AfricaNenda for trusted payments
As countries across Africa continue to modernize their payment infrastructure, Mastercard is expanding its efforts to help build trusted and inclusive payment systems through strategic collaborations with The Mojaloop Foundation and AfricaNenda Foundation. Africa...
Aweh Mobile launches in SA
South Africa’s telecommunications landscape has welcomed a new player with the official launch of Aweh Mobile. Aweh Mobile places the household at the centre of its value proposition, as mobile services are increasingly shared across multiple members of the same...
CFOS play an outsize role as AI scales enterprise-wide
As AI becomes more integrated into enterprise operations and decision-making, chief financial officers (CFOs) are taking on a larger role in shaping enterprise priorities around AI, helping turn strategy into execution, and determining how investments and capital...
CFOs must take a more disciplined approach to finance AI investment
As finance AI adoption moves beyond experimentation, CFOs must take a more disciplined approach to managing their portfolios, according to Gartner. Finance leaders are implementing this more disciplined approach by setting realistic time-to-value expectations,...
CHRO confidence remains positive, but inches down
CHRO Confidence among US chief human resource officers (CHROs) remained positive in Q3, but continued to edge down from its record high earlier this year, according to the latest survey by The Conference Board. The CHRO Confidence Index declined to 56 in Q3 from 58 in...
SA hits 1,5m domains
The ZA Registry Consortium (ZARC) has reached a milestone of 1,5-million domain registrations across South Africa’s commercial .ZA second-level domains. The milestone, spanning the .co.za, .org.za, .net.za and .web.za namespaces, reflects decades of sustained growth...
US taskforce aims to regulate renamed AI
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new taskforce focused on artificial intelligence (AI) – which he has renamed as Super Intelligence. The new taskforce will be led by Jay Clayton, the director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. Other members of the team...
Agentic AI boosts cloud opportunities for telcos
Telcos searching to expand sales avenues are discovering evolving channel opportunities in cloud marketplaces which align with their AI strategies to streamline delivery of network services to enterprises, according to GlobalData. Factors ranging from agentic...
Two-thirds of organisations lack mature 24/7 security operations
There is a widening gap between security ambition and operational readiness as organisations face increasingly sophisticated and AI-enabled threats, according to a new report from Logicalis - Closing the Security Maturity Gap. Despite significant investment in...
Almost one-fifth of retailers suffer permanent data loss from cyberattacks
A shocking 87% of retailers faced cyber incidents over the past 12 months, according to a new global study from Kaspersky, which gives insight into the risks and challenges the industry faces – and suggests ways to address them. Retail is moving into an AI‑driven and...
Risk reporting takes a new turn
Enterprise risk management (ERM) teams should make greater use of AI-generated risk insights, according to Gartner. They should also work to incrementally quantify and improve the timeliness of risk insights to make them more actionable and keep pace with today’s...