193 Standard Bank processed more than R164-trillion in payments in 2025, cementing its position as the continent’s largest transactional franchise and underlining the scale of its African payments infrastructure. The bank handled…
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WTO showdown looms over e-commerce tariff moratorium
177 World Trade Organisation members are meeting in Yaounde, Cameroon this month to decide the fate of a longstanding global agreement that bans customs duties on electronic transmissions such as digital downloads…
MTN Group shakes up board with five new directors
289 MTN Group has announced a significant overhaul of its board of directors, appointing five independent non-executive directors as part of what it described as comprehensive succession planning. The appointments, effective 31…
Anoosh Rooplal on the Post Office’s last stand
241 The South African Post Office has been in business rescue – a form of bankruptcy protection – since July 2023. Business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons have made it…
Global crackdown on children’s screen time gathers pace
203 Britain has told parents to curb young children’s screen time, advising no screens for under-2s and up to an hour a day for 2- to 5-year-olds because prolonged solo use can…
The real reason Absa wrote off R2.4-billion in software
190 Absa CTIO Johnson Idesoh Absa Group’s decision to take a R2.4-billion software impairment hit for the year ended 31 December 2025 is not solely because of AI – itself an accelerator…
Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived
221 Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the US has ruled. The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to…
Apple plans to open Siri to rival AI services
198 Apple plans to open its Siri voice assistant to rival AI services beyond its current partnership with ChatGPT, according to a report. The move, expected as part of Apple’s iOS 27…
MTN invests in AI network start-up alongside Nvidia
217 Mazen Mroué, CEO of MTN Digital Infrastructure MTN Group’s digital infrastructure arm has joined a US$45-million funding round in ORAN Development Company (ODC), a US-based start-up building AI-native radio access network…
War kills rate cut hopes as Reserve Bank warns of inflation spike
183 Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago The South African Reserve Bank maintained its main lending rate at 6.75% on Thursday, saying caution was needed as higher energy prices triggered by the US-Israel…