By Alan Shannon, Executive: Client Engagement, Professional Banking and Small Business Services at Nedbank FULL STORY >

The upcoming annual SingularityU Online Summit will be providing a platform for seven local tech start-ups to access global investors and potentially take their innovations to the next level. FULL STORY >

SingularityU South Africa has announced its plans to host the SingularityU Exponential Finance Summit online in 2021 and revealed some of what it has in store. FULL STORY >

Capitec, South Africa’s largest digital bank, has added EasyEquities, the country’s best low-cost investment platform, to its new banking app. FULL STORY >

Rand Merchant Investments (RMI) startup incubator AlphaCode has taken another step to find the next unicorn in financial services when it chose Oyi Medical Card and awarded it R450 000 at its first virtual demo day. FULL STORY >

Amid all the distressing global news of chaos that seems to be running rampant at present, here’s some heartening local news - Microsoft South Africa has announced an investment of up to R40... FULL STORY >

Data revealed that most regulated forex brokers in especially South Africa experienced new records in first time traders. FULL STORY >

It’s time to strap on innovation and digital, and stride into the opportunities that lurk within a stagnant market, says Jon Tullet at IDC. FULL STORY >

It’s time to strap on innovation and digital, and stride into the opportunities that lurk within a stagnant market, says Jon Tullet at IDC. FULL STORY >

Samsung has announced its R280 million Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP), projected to have a measurable impact on job creation and a contribution of nearly R1 billion to the South African economy at large. FULL STORY >

SAS is putting a serious amount of money behind artificial intelligence, announcing their latest billion dollar investment into the emerging technology. FULL STORY >

CDC Group Plc, the UK’s development finance institution, has reached an agreement with pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom to invest $180m (about R2.5 billion) with the company, continuing the spate of investments this... FULL STORY >

Smartcall, a market leaders in prepaid cellular services and products, which has announced a R10 million investment into Mettlestate, a premium local e-sports authority. FULL STORY >

Huawei has offered a few more details ahead of the formal launch of its impending cloud services in South Africa. FULL STORY >

Amazon Web Services has confirmed plans to open a new AWS Infrastructure Region in the first half of 2020 in South Africa. FULL STORY >