Category: <span>Banking</span>

Stanchion Payments has announced the appointment of Carlin Wicomb as Regional Managing Director: Africa. Carlin brings over 15 years of experience in payments and fintech throughout Africa and emerging markets, combining deep technical expertise with a strong track record in commercial leadership. Given the company’s ambitious expansion plans, Carlin’s experience in building and scaling operations...

Africa’s largest telecoms operator MTN Group is exploring banking licences in select markets as the company looks to expand lending from its own balance sheet, CEO Ralph Mupita said on Tuesday, 25 August. MTN is stepping up its push into fintech services to drive growth beyond traditional telecommunications revenue, with lending emerging as one of...

JSE-listed fintech Lesaka Technologies is rebranding Kazang Insights as Lesaka Data & Insights as part of the consolidation of its merchant-based businesses under the name of Lesaka Merchant Division. Formed through Lesaka’s 2024 acquisition of Touchsides from Heineken International, Lesaka Data & Insights now operates as a neutral data and insights partner to FMCG brands,...

How to avoid vendors that want to sell software over helping you build customer relationships. Payroll and HR solutions are natural extensions of selling business and IT services. You might not be a payroll or HR specialist, but all your clients rely on those disciplines to keep their organisational wheels greased. Many of them are...

South Africa’s largest bank by customers has officially changed its name from Capitec Bank Holdings to Capitec Limited. The resolution for this name change was approved by shareholders at the bank’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday, 31 July 2026. It has been filed with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission, and Capitec has received...

Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable fintech company, is in the process of acquiring a bank in East Africa, Chief Executive and co-founder Olugbenga Agboola said, as the Nigerian payments company accelerates its expansion into banking services. “We are currently acquiring another bank, in another country,” Agboola said. He did not disclose the identity of the target institution...

JSE-listed fintech group Lesaka Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LSAK; JSE: LSK) is consolidating its merchant-focused businesses under the name of Lesaka. The new brand signals how Lesaka has brought together leading fintech companies into a single platform that mirrors how merchants run their businesses.  The move follows Lesaka acquiring the Connect Group in 2021 and Adumo...

The London Stock Exchange will open a new venue outside of its regular market hours in a move to offer “near-continuous trading” in the working week. The new offering, which will be called LSE 24, will operate from 5 p.m. until 7:50 a.m. in London and is expected to be ready for client testing by...

9Pay Joint Stock Company has officially established a direct connection with Visa through CyberSource, a global payment processing platform within the Visa ecosystem. This strategic move positions 9Pay as one of the few payment intermediaries in Vietnam to possess card infrastructure capabilities equivalent to international operating standards. The combination of Visa’s global network and 9Pay’s domestic processing...

SOTRU Identity and Communications (Pty) Ltd, a South African verification and secure communication platform, launches in the market to tackle a fraud problem that traditional KYC and KYB checks were never built to solve: impersonation and payment fraud that happens after a supplier has been verified. Business email compromise hit 63% of organisations globally in...