In a first for Africa, BankservAfrica partnered with McKinsey & Company to host a National Payment Systems workshop at this year’s SWIFT African Regional Conference 2017 (#ARC2017) in Abidjan on 18 May 2017.

The workshop brings together African financial institutions and central banks looking to modernise an existing, or implement a new, national payment infrastructure in order to streamline and facilitate national payments to support the economy.

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance institutions, has won the Best Digital Banking Solutions award at Banker Africa’s East Africa Awards 2017, one of the most prestigious accolades for financial institutions operating on the African continent.

The announcement was made last night at a ceremony in front of 200 senior banking and finance delegates in Nairobi, Kenya.

With the recent events surrounding the WannaCry ransomware attack, REMTCS' ANNI PASS solution would have identified and mitigated the ransomware attack, preventing it from spreading throughout an organization.

Since 2014, the Client Relationship Model II (CRM II) regulation has become a hot topic in the Canadian financial services industry because of its influence on banking practices in Canada.

CRM II aims to protect investors from false investments and provide them with comprehensive information about fees and the performance of their investments. A part of a global shift towards increased disclosure and transparency in the banking industry, its European and U.S. counterparts are MIFID II and the Dodd Frank Act, respectively.

Yapı Kredi, Digital Bank of Turkey continues to develop revolutionary applications and to break new frontiers.

Tech-savvy Brits are adopting and becoming increasingly reliant upon new ways to pay, but small businesses are struggling to keep up with changing consumer demands, research from Barclaycard has found.

A growing opportunity

Nuance Communications today took a major step towards reducing the risk of consumer fraud by announcing a new suite of biometric security solutions, driven by the latest in artificial intelligence (AI) innovations.