Johannesburg-based Tshimologong and IBM are calling on startups to participate in this year’s TechAccel programme
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Vantage Capital exits Vumatel
Vantage Capital, Africa’s largest mezzanine debt fund manager, has announced that it has fully exited its investment in Vumatel, the largest fibre-to-the-home network provider in South Africa
Asoko Insight and the UK’s DIT extend digital DealRoom platform
Following the successful pilot of the digital DealRoom with the UK governments Department for International Trade (DIT) Africa, Asoko Insight has announced that the deal origination platform will continue to match UK investors and businesses to fund-seeking African corporates for a further six months
Delaying digitalisation poses genuine threats to banking business: Temenos survey
Building a mobile-first greenfield bank is ranked as the top innovation strategy by 37 per cent of MEA banking executives, according to a global retail banking survey released by Temenos, the banking software company
IBM unveils new AI designed to help CIOs automate IT operations
IBM has announced at its Think Digital conference a broad range of new AI-powered capabilities and services that are designed to help Chief Information Officers (CIOs) automate their IT infrastructures to be more resilient to future disruptions and to help reduce costs