B2B Central

FinTech

01 Mar 2022

Ukheshe Technologies announces appointment of Darryn Botha as its new CIO

By Staff Writer

Botha’s role will include overseeing data security, maintaining a stable IT infrastructure, while enabling Ukheshe's business strategy
25 Feb 2022

AI and M2M take South African payments and e-commerce to new heights

By Staff Writer

The opportunities in South Africa are immense as smart technologies, such as AI and M2M, are put to good use in best of breed payment solutions.
23 Feb 2022

The biggest fintech trends changing the face of payments in emerging markets

By Staff Writer

Ukheshe's Mark Dankworth shares his thoughts on how mobile money, cross-border payments and ‘buy now, pay later’ are transforming the financial sector, for the better.
18 Nov 2021

Forces in fintech

By Staff Writer

BlackRock sees the digitisation of cash trend continuing in 2021, with the BlackRock FinTech Fund remaining heavily invested in financial technology.
02 Nov 2021

Professional advice is not a ‘nice to have’ – especially in insurance

By Staff Writer

Technology has practically taken over in most spheres of existence – from business transacting to personal and everyday activities like shopping, staying in touch, as well as education – and insurance is definitely a sector that is not exempt from this ‘technological takeover’.
05 Oct 2021

Insurers can bridge the relationship gap by focusing on digital customer communication

By Staff Writer

Traditional insurers have never faced as much competition for their customers’ attention as they do now. A whole litany of tech-centric start-ups are coming for their lunch and they’re doing so by making life much simpler for customers. In order to remain competitive, therefore, insurers need to focus on building stronger relationships with customers.
04 Aug 2021

Redefining insurance

By Staff Writer

COVID-19 has prompted great changes in society and business. Insurers must take this opportunity to re-imagine how they serve their clients, and ensure they continue to prosper. That’s the word from Jason Mellow, Head of MiWay Business Insurance.
03 Jun 2021

Stash by Liberty takes top honours at global customer experience awards

By Staff Writer

The Liberty Group's innovative Stash app has won two global awards for offering outstanding customer experience in the insurance industry.The 2021 Digital CX Awards saw the Stash app win the Outstanding Customer Experience Transformation in Insurance Award, as well as the Best Insurtech for Digital Customer Experience Award.

17 May 2021

Reaching the underinsured & uninsured using digital technolgy

By Staff Writer

There can be no doubt that South Africa is massively underinsured. That’s true of healthcare, where around 80% of the population has no form of private health insurance. It’s also true of life and disability insurance, The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA)’s most recent Life and Disability Insurance Gap Study showed that earners younger than 39 years face an average insurance shortfall of R1.4 million for life cover and R1.5 million for disability.

12 Apr 2021

SIGTech's quant trading platform used by managers with $312bn in AUM

By Staff Writer

SIGTech, the provider of next-gen quant trading technology for global investment managers, has revealed that despite only launching in 2019, fund managers with a combined AUM of $312 billion are now using its platform.
08 Apr 2020

Shifting the status quo

By Janice Roberts

If Covid-19 has taught us anything, it’s that we need to be prepared, even for the unthinkable. As technology further shapes financial services (some may say how it currently stands was unthinkable some years ago), it’s one area where we can prepare, while adapting to managing risks before they happen.

07 Apr 2020

Innovation Hub to promote responsible innovation in the SA financial sector

By Janice Roberts

South Africa’s financial regulators have launched the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) Innovation Hub to respond to changes in the financial sector driven by financial technology (fintech) and to promote responsible innovation in the sector.