181 Global mobile money transactions surpassed US$2-trillion in 2025, doubling in just four years, according to the GSMA’s latest State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money. The mobile telecommunications industry body…
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Durban’s finance leaders are done with AI theatre
167 Finance teams are not short of dashboards, automation tools or AI pilots. What they are short of is time and confidence. Time to close, time to forecast, time to interrogate variance…
The conflict of interest at the heart of PayShap’s slow adoption
181 Imagine it’s 2036. Unemployment has been halved, business confidence is robust, and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises are powering sustainable growth. South Africa finally looks like a country realising its…
Build a second income in South Africa
140 For a lot of South Africans, the idea of a second income is no longer some flashy online trend. It is survival, breathing room, school fees, petrol money, a backup plan,…
FirstRand ups stake in Optasia in R1.5-billion deal
177 Banking group FirstRand has increased its shareholding in JSE-listed fintech Optasia to 26.1% after acquiring an additional 6% stake in a deal worth about R1.48-billion. The banking group purchased 74.1 million…
Defend your cloud with Altron Digital Business
183 As organisations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, cloud adoption has become central to agility, innovation and scale. But as workloads move beyond traditional data centres into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the…
Standard Bank breaks silence on Anele Mngadi claims
176 Standard Bank says it is not aware of any criminal charges relating to Anele Mngadi, as it has not been approached by any law enforcement agency. Mngadi was trending on social…
RAF ordered to pay Sunshine Hospital R92m within seven days
215 SCA overturns high court order that dismissed the hospital’s application to enforce overdue payments of civil judgments against the fund. The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has been ordered to pay Sunshine…
The MSP stack is collapsing under its own weight. AI is forcing a reset
223 Managed service providers (MSPs) have always dealt in complexity. What’s changed is how that complexity now behaves: it doesn’t merely slow delivery; it quietly multiplies cost and risk. Many providers are…
Jury finds Meta enabled child exploitation
204 A US jury has found Meta Platforms violated New Mexico state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney-general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of…