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Financial Inclusion in Africa with Vipaso & Horizon – ITNA Digital Innovation Podcast EP 2
This week on IT News Africa’s Digital Innovation Podcast, Luis Monzon interviews Peter Neubauer, CEO of Austrian fintech startup Vipaso. Vipaso has recently released its digital payments innovation “Horizon” in…
Crypto Scams on the Rise in SA: Here’s How to Protect Yourself
The world seems to have gone ‘crypto-mad’. Digital currencies like bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, and even Dogecoin, are all over the internet. Their soaring value promises big wins for investors (if…
Finding the Business Case for Blockchain
The distributed ledger system behind blockchain, the technology used to secure cryptocurrencies, ensures that all transactions are validated and, importantly, that an immutable record is kept of these transactions. This…
Meta Rumoured to be Working on New Virtual Currency: ‘Zuck Bucks’
Meta reportedly plans to introduce a virtual currency “Zuck Bucks” to its apps to reward content creators and run other financial services like lending. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of…
Talking E-Commerce in Africa with Telkom’s Kenneth Kayser: ITNA Digital Innovation Podcast EP 1
In this first official episode of IT News Africa’s Digital Innovation Podcast, a weekly podcast that looks at hot innovations and digital businesses in the African market, Luis Monzon chats…
What Factors Influence Cryptocurrency Prices?
The digital money market is known for its outrageous instability, with financial backers encountering gains and misfortunes around the same time at times. What causes the cost and unpredictability of…
How CFOs & CIOs are Funding Digital Transformation with OPEX, not CAPEX
CFOs and CIOs, collaborating to drive the accelerated digital transformation necessitated by rapid technology advances and COVID-19, now have a smart alternative to traditional financing and management of IT assets…
Understanding the Risks to Cryptocurrency Trading
Alongside self-fertilizing crops and low-carbon shipping, cryptocurrencies have made the World Economic Forum (WEF) list of top tech trends in 2022 bolstered by research by the Thomson Reuters Foundation that…
Mastercard & Ukheshe Launch “First-of-its-Kind” Virtual Card Solution
South African fintech enablement partner Ukheshe Technologies says that it has started to process payments for Mastercard’s Track Instant Pay solution recently launched in the Middle East and Africa region.…
UBA & Cellulant Join Forces to Unite Africa’s Payments Ecosystem
Nigeria’s United Bank for Africa (UBA), and Cellulant, a leading Pan-African payments company, have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African…