FNB’s nav» Turns 10 with New Youth and Payroll Solutions for South Africans

by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Digital Finance

For the past decade, FNB’s nav» ecosystem has evolved from a financial management tool into a comprehensive platform designed to help South Africans navigate life’s biggest financial decisions. Marking its tenth anniversary, FNB has unveiled two new offerings—nav»...

‘Prove you’re human’ is the wrong security question in agentic commerce

by nouman | Jul 13, 2026 | Digital Finance

For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down. Over the last year, agentic commerce has shifted from a conference concept to reality. Visa enrolled local banks in its Agentic Ready programme,...

Xoom, a PayPal Service, and Flutterwave Enable Direct Money Transfers to Nigeria

by nouman | Jul 10, 2026 | Digital Finance, West Africa

Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, today announced a collaboration with Xoom, PayPal’s international digital money transfer service, to enable fast transfers into Nigeria, one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies. The relationship...

The bank of the future will need to serve people and the AI agents acting for them

by nouman | Jul 10, 2026 | Digital Finance, Opinion

For years, digital banking has been measured by access. Ensuring clients can open an account without visiting a branch, transact from a phone, or get help outside normal banking hours shaped the first wave of banking digitisation and changed how millions of South...

Ethiopia advances nationwide rollout of interoperable digital government payments

by nouman | Jul 10, 2026 | Digital Finance, East Africa, Top Stories

Ethiopia has taken another step toward implementing interoperable government payments nationwide as public institutions, regulators and payment infrastructure providers convened to operationalize a unified implementation framework aligned with the country’s National...

Ethiopia: EthSwitch explores Huawei partnership on AI, Payments and Connectivity

by nouman | Jul 8, 2026 | Digital Finance, East Africa

Ethiopia’s national payment switch, EthSwitch, is exploring expanded cooperation with Huawei on artificial intelligence, payment infrastructure and cross-border payment connectivity with China, as the country seeks to strengthen the technological backbone of one of...