When going through a digital transformation programme, talent is as important as technology in ensuring success.
What is the balance sheet after one year of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement?
Getting more women into the banking system needs more than a pink debit card. Demystifying the process of banking and making it accessible will help to bring more women into the formal financial sector.
How do you know that you are you? This existential question plagues humankind, as identification is not the same as identity.
Is the industry ready to offer services to this smaller sized, but fast-growing segment of the corporate market?
Spurred on by the pandemic, the banking sector looks set for a more concerted push into cloud-based IT usage.
Revolutionary change is sometimes hard to understand – but we are on the cusp of a new reality.
Fintech investments on the African continent exceeded $1.35bn last year. The question now is whether a lack of incumbent legacy systems can help propel the sector further.
The financial sector is one of the fastest growing markets for quantum technologies, and the long-term impact could be significant.
The performance of companies against environmental, social and governance criteria is increasingly impacting stock market valuations and is expected to be central to creating value in a changing economy.
What will it take to make cross-border payments as easy, quick, inexpensive and transparent as domestic payments? The debate continues.
Beyond retail banking and payments lies investment and commercial banking, the next frontier for fintechs looking to disrupt the status quo.
The application that wouldn’t die is still the finance industry’s go-to spreadsheet option.
Hitting the $1bn valuation mark can play a role in helping fintechs attract the best talent.
Equity markets in the Middle East are waking from their slumber as oil prices rise.
Time will tell as to what extent regulators impose stringent anti-money laundering requirements on cryptocurrency operations.
Symphony Communications’ CEO Brad Levy on the importance of placing humans at the heart of digital strategies.
As the OBIE seeks to widen the initiative to include ‘open finance’, it is important to consider the dangers and drawbacks.
Digital transformation is helping financial institutions address the challenge of decarbonisation, but transformational technologies bring carbon emissions of their own.
Remote sensing and artificial intelligence, combined with blockchain technology, could help more accurately measure and manage sustainability-related risks.