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