Advanced technology increasingly shaping Africa’s financial sector

 

Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa.

*Ashish Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Mara Group, gave conference delegates interesting and thought-provoking insights

 DHL (http://www.dpdhl.com), the world’s leading logistics service provider, held its 5th annual Global Technology conference in Dubai last month, featuring a number of key sessions on doing business in Africa.

Under the theme of “Connecting Markets, Trends & People”, the conference hosted some 300...

Google's Advanced Protection gets more advanced  Android AuthorityGoogle’s Advanced Protection program now blocks sideloading non-Play Store apps  XDA DevelopersGoogle APP users won't be allowed to install apps from outside the Play Store  ZDNetHonor 9x Pro Review  PhoneArenaGoogle's Advanced Protection limits sideloading of non-Play Store apps and turns on Play Protect automatically  Android PoliceView Full coverage on Google News

Capital FM Kenya
Tanzania leads Africa in financial inclusion
Daily News
TANZANIA the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa and ninth globally for demonstrating most conducive environments for financial inclusion, according to the new Global Microscope 2014 by The Economt Intelligence Unit. The new study released th month ...
The Ministry of EAC to begin an exercise of fast tracking the integration processRwanda News Agency (registration)
EAC advocates equal trade playing fieldCNBCAfrica.com
EAC Tax...

While China produces 7,000,000 engineers annually, barely 20,000 engineers graduate in Africa -- a continent with the same population as that of the second largest economy in the world, so Africa needs to catch up.

Africa is a mobile-only continent. There never was a landline infrastructure to begin with, apart from isolated urban areas, and their maintenance wasn’t that good.

Africa has achieved exceptional economic growth over the past decade, averaging 4.5 percent a year and underpinned by prudent macroeconomic management.  Now we must achieve economic growth that is accompanied by significantly less poverty and greater prosperity for all the people of the continent.
With new discoveries of oil, gas, and minerals seemingly every month, we need to be able to extract, market, and invest the new-found earnings from these resources in higher quality education,...

A Mauritius-based financial services firm, afb, which provides innovative consumer and SME financial products, has signed a $20 million (about Sh40 billion) investment deal with GEMCORP, that enables the former to hasten its speed of growth within sub-Saharan Africa.

On the Left: Mr. David Robinson, ‎Deputy Director, African Department at International Monetary Fund (IMF); in the middle: Mr. Armando Manuel, Chair of the African Caucus and Minister of Finance of Angola.

*The forum assembles more than nineteen Ministers of Finance and fourteen Governors of the Central Banks

The development of the continent continues to be affected by insufficient resources.

The President of the African Group and Minister of Finance of Angola, Armando Manuel, declared in...

Garmin Sub-Saharan Africa will be hosting meetings in Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania from the 8th to the 15th July

The Africa team for Garmin Sub-Saharan Africa (http://www.garmin.co.za) will be hosting meetings in Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania from the 8th to the 15th July to meet with buyers, potential resellers and business partners. The purpose of our trade delegation is to engage and meet with prospective businesses partners who are involved in the fishing, farming, agribusiness, oil...