Fintech

Scam losses: $1-trillion
and counting

New SAS analysis finds five critical weak points in banks’ defences against AI-scaled schemes, raising an...

Putting the tech
in Capitec

The group is pairing AI support systems with smart terminals, upcoming Home Affairs services, and environment-testing...

Black Friday raises payment realities for merchants

Retailers have to claim their piece of a market that is expanding ten times faster than...

Do international payments still need a layover in NYC?

The plumbing of international finance was built for a different era, writes CHRIS MAURICE, CEO of...

SA faces test for compliance tech

South Africa’s fight to escape grey listing shows how compliance technology has become a frontline weapon,...

Africa’s payments are on a rapid rise

New research by Standard Bank points to real-time, interoperable systems reshaping trade, remittances and liquidity across...

AWS Summit: SA banks use cloud
to extend global lead

Institutions ranging from Absa and Capitec to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange revealed secrets of tech success...

Why TymeBank is taking on Home Affairs

A massive increase in the cost of verification against the national identity system reinforces exclusion, writes...

Small LLMs and agents
transform payments

Many financial services companies are evaluating AI-driven tools, writes RAMON VILLARREAL, Red Hat global architect and...

Digital adventures: Click, Cart, Chaos 

The modern adventure of buying groceries online, and the woes that go with it, keeps SHERYL...

BNPL: Buy now,
panic later

Webber Wentzel partners Lerato Lamola and Anél De Meyer take a legal deep dive into South...

Money talks, but
who listens?

Financial literacy in South Africa involves emotions and social factors, not just numbers, according to a...

Trading platforms make poor promises 

New research by Octa reveals unrealistic profit promises from 62% of SA traders, signalling rising demand...

Peach purchases W Africa payment gateway

The acquisition unlocks the UEMOA Francophone countries, and later CEMAC, for the business that started out...

Empathy shapes
FNB app

FNB’s nav» Money tool has reached 5-million users, helped along by an emotional connection with customers,...

Global online spend to hit
$6.6-trillion by 2029

New findings by Omdia reveal online consumer spending is set to outpace the expansion of the...

Octatrader debuts new AI trading tool

AI Pattern Recognition is expected to make trading analytics more precise and time-efficient.