The unique environment for financial services in Africa is fertile ground for innovative FinTech players who are capitalising on the opportunities to disrupt or leapfrog established business models to make financial services more affordable, accessible and profitable across the continent.  

Turnkey open banking platform provider Token today announces that it is enabling Paymentworld Europe Ltd. to provide a bank direct payments facility to its business and consumer customers.

Paymentworld’s portfolio of payment services includes a payment gateway with 400+ payment options in 160 countries, an EWallet that enables B2B, B2C and C2C transactions, independent payment processing and value-added services such as loyalty and bonus programmes.

 identitii, the company enabling the secure, trusted and auditable exchange of information within and between counterparty financial institutions, today announced a new partnership with Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), the global market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The partnership will see a joint technology offering designed to help financial institutions securely digitise and automate corporate payment and trade transaction processes, and provide a detailed audit trail to aid the efficient and effective detection of fraudulent activities.

Deloitte LLP, with 20 years of successfully delivering large-scale customer outreach solutions, and AllClear ID, Inc., the world’s leading provider of customer breach notification and identity protection, today announce their collaboration to deliver data breach customer notification services to the customers of businesses under the GDPR regulations.

Temenos announced that Julius Baer’s divisions in Singapore and Hong Kong have successfully completed the migration to Temenos WealthSuite. WealthSuite combines core banking, portfolio management, channels and analytics functions in a single wealth management platform.

Julius Baer is a leading Swiss private banking group with around 400 billion USD in assets under management globally. The bank focuses on providing high-end services and in-depth advice to clients around the world.

Target Group, the business process outsourcing and operational transformation provider, has today announced it is bringing an enhanced digital service solution to the transfer agency (TA) market for investment firms by partnering with Bravura Solutions.

On June 20, Tbilisi will host Georgia’s major cryptocurrency event – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Georgia. Conference topics: mining, ICO campaigns, state regulation, and GovTech.    

In celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and the country’s Independence Day, tickets to the conference are 30% cheaper!   

The price of a standard ticket using the freedom promotion code is 60 USD instead of 85 USD.

Startups from around the world are developing niche technologies that are making life simpler and more convenient, but they struggle to find the right partners that can take their solutions farther.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25th May 2018, with significant fines for non-compliance. It impacts any organization in the EU and organizations outside the EU who sell, market to or monitor EU individuals.

With time running out, here are some minimum items you should have in place by the deadline:

1.   GOVERNANCE