African small and medium businesses face roadblocks on their digitalisation journeys and research by Microsoft shows 47% of SMBs find the cost of new technologies to be a restrictive factor for adoption, while 38% have difficulty comparing solutions driving...

Bram van den Bosch, Co-founder and CEO of Emata, a company dedicated to providing digital and affordable financial solutions to East African farmers, shares the remarkable journey of the organisation, from its inception to a recent successful seed fund...

Chipper Cash, a financial services company serving over five million customers across Africa and the US, has announced a strategic partnership with Visa to drive growth and financial inclusion across the African continent.   Chipper Cash has an...

 We hear from Toni-Louise Gianatti, Head of PR and Content at Soter Analytics, on how the insurance game is changing through injury prevention technology.  The days of being reactive are in the past. Waiting for an incident to occur before...

Mukuru, one of Africa’s leading fintech providers, introduces pioneering Naira bank top-ups to streamline remittances in Nigeria. Simplifying USD-to-Naira conversions, this innovation addresses customer pain points and caters to Nigeria’s vast...

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, has announced a new managed services partnership agreement with Luxoft, a DXC Technology company, to support Finastra’s Kondor customers in...

Allied Engineering Group (AEG), one of the largest SWIFT service bureaus globally, has announced its collaboration with Microsoft and Crayon to bring tailored and compliant solutions to financial service institutions (FSIs) that are migrating their SWIFT...

Virtual trading floors for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) flagship financial literacy programme – the JSE Investment Challenge – have officially opened as the competition marks a 50-year milestone.  Designed to highlight the...

Rapid development in Latin America is leading to high levels of innovation in FinTech. EBANX’s Beyond Borders 2022/2023 report explores the causes and potential effects this may have into 2023.  EBANX, a FinTech company that specialises in...

Verto, a leading B2B cross-border payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) enabler, has partnered with ForexPeople to bring secure, fast and seamless global payments to South African businesses buying, selling, or operating globally. With more than US$1.5 billion...

A flexible office environment can better align employee needs and business goals, but the financial and banking sector seems to be reverting to old habits and rallying for in-office presence. Ekta Puthran, MEA Lead – Collaboration,...

Carbon Finance, a Pan-African microfinance bank, has announced it has extended its partnership with Mambu to continue growing its financial services offering and accelerate expansion. The agreement enables Carbon to offer the full-spectrum of...