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Fintech

Standard Bank embarks on software transformation drive

Standard Bank is the first bank in Africa to implement core banking systems SAP and Finacle, amid ever-increasing pressures to consolidate client data.

Kanika Saigal, July 30, 2015

BANKING

No Eurobond plan for Nigeria Access Bank post Moody's rating

Access Bank has become the second bank in Nigeria to receive a rating from Moody’s, illustrating the bank’s strengths despite challenging macroeconomic conditions.

Kanika Saigal, July 30, 2015

Opinion

Quotes of the month

“I remember the morning I discovered my car had been burnt out outside the house. I’ve had some close security, but I never wanted them to be overly obvious and get in the way. I mean: they hadn’t attacked the house or anything. They had just burnt the car. It was a message: ‘People are angry’. I understood that”

July 29, 2015

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Time running out in APA compliance challenge

Final implementation of MiFID II is now just under 18 months away, yet the systems required to comply with the APA regime for pre- and post-trade reporting have not yet been built. Time is running out for the industry to assess the implications of these rules and to build the systems to comply, says Chris Leonard-Appleton at Thomson Reuters.

July 29, 2015

BANKING

RBC Caribbean fights back from the brink

The banking business of RBC Caribbean was close to dissolution less than three years ago but is now on a path towards profitability and reconnection with the communities that it serves. Kirk Dudtschak, the bank’s executive vice-president, was in the eye of the storm.

Helen Avery, July 29, 2015

BANKING

Nigerian pensions chief signals new era

The head of the Nigerian public pension fund commission reveals governance and diversification reforms, amid a bull market for savings in Africa's largest economy.

Kanika Saigal, July 28, 2015

BANKING

Iran’s long road ahead

The contingent lifting of western sanctions on the world's biggest untapped market has been met with cautious optimism by the financial industry.

July 28, 2015

Opinion

Sideways: Courage, stout regulators!

The dismissal of Martin Wheatley, head of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, by Chancellor George Osborne was widely interpreted as a step towards less intrusive regulation of the financial industry

Jon Macaskill, July 28, 2015

Opinion

#Grexit goes Gangnam Style

This reporter expected a smug tweet on Greece last month to elicit a Radio 4-friendly guffaw from one or two of our modestly-numbered Twitter followers. But as any trader will tell you: timing is everything.

July 28, 2015

Opinion

Power down in South Africa

It was to this journalist’s surprise that when making a short trip to Johannesburg for business, she was to be transported back to the airport at the end of her trip by electric car.

July 28, 2015

Opinion

Is this Africa’s digital revolution?

Each year, Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence prompt a variety of pitches – good and bad – from banks all over the globe. In Africa, which has some of the most under-developed countries in terms of banking, not only is it important for banks’ pitches to highlight strong fundamentals, profit growth and shareholder returns, but technological innovation that can leapfrog older, dated methods in banking and sometimes be the key to winning an award.

July 28, 2015

BANKING

Mozambique warned on resource boom

Lessons to learn from rest of Africa; local banks may be left behind.

Kanika Saigal, July 28, 2015

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