As AI ambitions collide with ageing architecture, technical debt is becoming a business risk that boards can no longer leave to IT to quietly manage. Johannesburg, South Africa – 14 September 2026 – For years, technical debt was treated as an IT problem. Ageing systems, brittle integrations and hard-to-change applications created cost and complexity, but as long as the business kept operating, those problems stayed largely contained within the technology function. That containment is breaking down. Businesses are changing faster, integrating more systems, launching digital products and responding to new regulatory demands. In that environment, technical debt shows up as...

Compliance has traditionally been associated with paperwork, manual checks and the challenge of proving that the right processes were followed. But as regulatory scrutiny increases and accountable institutions face greater expectations around customer due diligence, the industry has been moving towards a more practical question: how can compliance become easier to manage, evidence and maintain? As VOCA, SW360’s Verification, Onboarding and Compliance Application, marks two years in the market, its significance lies less in the milestone itself and more in what it represents: a shift towards making FICA compliance part of everyday business rather than an administrative exercise that happens...

There’s a strange fear emerging around A.I that the more we use it to think, analyze and make decisions, the less capable we will become of doing these things ourselves. But I think this misunderstands where the technology is actually heading, because A.I isn’t simply another tool we’re going to use alongside our existing ways of working. It is slowly becoming integrated into the very process through which businesses: • understand information • recognize patterns • evaluate possibilities and  • decide what to do next. Today, we still think of A.I as something separate from us. We open ChatGPT or...