ACI Worldwide has announced that Altech Card Solutions (ACS), a division of Altron, one of South Africa’s leading technology companies, is using ACI’s UP Retail Payments to better serve its large multinational retail customers in South Africa and across the African continent
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Telkom partners with Guardrisk to launch life insurance business
Telkom has launched Telkom Financial Services, which includes a life insurance business that would initially sell funeral insurance, written out of a Guardrisk Life cell, to its more than 12mn customers
GOIL, GhIPSS launch gh-link card
In partnership with the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), GOIL has launched the use of a gh-link card on GOILs Point of Sale (POS) devices throughout the country
Sterling Bank partners Clickatell to introduce personalised banking experience
Sterling Bank, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, in collaboration with Clickatell, a mobile communications and chat commerce specialist, have announced a personalised banking experience for existing customers and prospective account holders through WhatsApp
Ugandan e-commerce platforms help soften economic blow of COVID-19
Partnerships with development agencies and government efforts to boost the digital economy help soften the economic blow of the pandemic, said the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)