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The quest for zero downtime

How are financial institutions faring with uptime?

Time millionaires

Unlike money, you can't earn time or make more of it. It's a finite thing.

Bronwyn Williams

Dishing the digital dosh

Banking is dead. Long live banking.

Digital banking

Open source charms banking

Open source software is worming its way into the local banking industry.

FULFILLING THE NEEDS OF MANY

Christo Vrey, Managing Executive at Absa Digital Channels, talks about the evolution of banking.

THE SIX STEPS TO INDEMNITY

SECURITY: THE MUTATING MENACE It was wholly prophetic, but it didn’t help the bank, its customer or the mobile platform provider.

As smooth as Swiss chocolate

Perago, a small company from sunny South Africa, is taking over the international banking world from its new base in Switzerland.

Banking on a revolution

The notion of a cashless society is going to be very real, very soon if all goes according to one local company’s plan…

Making banking sexy (again)

Remember when banking was cool? It`s time to spice things up again.

In-depth analysis

SEWING UP A SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE

“From our point-of-view, we have a multichannel approach through one platform,” says Christo Vrey, Managing Executive of Absa Digital Channels, “this makes the banking experience more seamless and simplified for those using both cellphone and Internet Banking, as many people do.

SA banks on the ERP edge

South African banks are looking to replace their expensive legacy platforms with newer architectures and packaged software. Standard Bank and Absa are first out the gates.

Left in the dark again

Customer dissatisfaction with the closure by Standard Chartered Bank of its consumer banking division, formerly known as 20twenty, is mounting. Of particular concern are overdrafts, which have been called in on 60 days notice, while alternative credit facilities are both more expensive and harder to obtain.

The dotcom echo

Goodness gracious. IPOs with the suffix ".com" are back in vogue. And some South African firms look ready to ride their coat tails.