Mondia Digital, a consolidation of the Mondia Group’s digital content distribution business, an end-to-end, product-centric and data-driven company with a focus on opportunities in the B2B segment, and its digital payments company, Mondia Pay, have joined the VodaPay app offering. The VodaPay Super App, designed in collaboration with Alibaba Group-owned FinTech services platform Alipay, allows […]

Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe, trading as EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited, together with its long-term technology partner Comviva has won two silver awards at this year’s Emerging Payments Awards. Cassava Smartech and Comviva won the silver for the Green financial inclusion initiative by mobile money platform EcoCash in the “Best Direct Account to Account Solution” and “Most […]

Andy Jury, Chief Executive Officers, Mukuru, explains pioneering effects of FinTech in Africa and why all too often, companies or entrepreneurs in the FinTech space find themselves in a mindset of ‘building something that shines’ and then expect that associated demand, commercialisation and scale will automatically happen. FinTech is poised to continue disrupting financial services […]

SambaNova Systems, the company building the industry’s most advanced software, hardware and services to run AI applications, has announced GITEX Technology Week the availability of the company’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) language model included in SambaNova’s Dataflow-as-a-Service for language — increasing the capability of SambaNova’s natural language processing (NLP) model with unmatched speed and accuracy […]

Fintech Galaxy, a UAE-based open innovation platform, has raised US$2 million in seed funding to further bolster the development and rollout of its Open Finance platform, as it looks to expand its reach and boost financial inclusion across key Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets. The seed round was led by Jordan’s Ahli Fintech […]

PB Fintech FZ, an online financial aggregator has entered into a technical/API integration with Al Etihad Credit Bureau (AECB) to implement real-time eligibility checks for credit card applications based on the AECB Credit Score and banks’ approval criteria. Customers of Policybazaar UAE can now apply for credit cards having an immediate indication of the chance […]

South Africa-based FinTech enablement partner, Ukheshe Technologies has announced a new partnership with Chipper, one of Africa’s most valuable start-ups, to enhance and accelerate the rollout out of Chipper’s digital payment offerings. The offerings include free and unlimited P2P payments across South Africa, value-added services such as airtime and data, and the ability to legally […]

Proven Solution, a state-of-the-art venture by Proven Arabia, has announced that one of Jordan’s premium financial institutions, Capital Bank, has chosen Proven Solution to further its digital innovation and footprints in the banking industry. Proven Solution primarily offers solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, virtual and augmented reality. With the latest project, the tech […]

HID Global, a global provider in trusted identity solutions, has announced that UAE-based Al Ain Finance has selected its cloud-based HID Authentication Service and HID Approve mobile-based authentication application to offer its customers a secure and seamless online banking experience. Al Ain Finance built its UAE operation from the ground up on a foundation of […]

BIOS Middle East, a specialist in Disaster Recovery services, has been appointed Disaster Recovery Service (DraaS) provider by National Takaful Company PJSC, Watania, as part of a proactive strategy on the part of the Abu Dhabi-based insurance company to ensure Business Continuity and embed resilience across its operations. BIOSME is the first and only company […]