Category: INTERNATIONAL
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Kenya: Safaricom bets on voice identity to rein in fraud
Listed telco Safaricom has introduced voice biometric system aimed at reducing fraud and helping its customers to reduce cases of identity theft. The system, dubbed Jitambulishe, will allow customers to access Safaricom services such as resetting M-Pesa PIN and PUK requests through a faster and less intrusive vetting process. The system aims to cut down…
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Heineken to open $100MN brewery in Mozambique in 2019
Heineken will open a $100 million brewery in Mozambique, its first production facility in the southern African nation, the brewer said on Monday. The world’s second-largest brewer plans to start production at the 0.8 million hectoliters capacity plant in the capital Maputo in the first half of 2019, it said in a statement. Advertisement Heineken,…
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Nigeria’s Access Bank’s next frontier
Nigeria’s Access Bank plans to grow its trade payment and settlement service over the next five years as foreign lenders faced with increased regulation at home cut their correspondent banking exposure to West Africa. So-called correspondent banking operations boomed over the last decade as commodity prices spiked and offshore lenders looking to tap into trade…
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Nigeria’s hottest investment opportunities
The past year has been one of economic progress for Nigeria, with Africa’s largest economy managing to crawl back into growth territory in the second quarter of 2017. Advertisement The Nigerian government has realised that it needs to make the country as attractive and lucrative as possible for offshore investors to bring their capital, skills…
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Tanzania restores power in parts of country after nationwide outage
Tanzania’s power utility said on Friday it had started to restore electricity to parts of the country after the East African nation was hit by a country-wide blackout on Thursday morning. “Efforts are ongoing to make sure that power supply is restored to all parts of the country,” the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO)…
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South Africa’s rand weaker as ruling party’s succession race gathers steam, stocks firmer
South Africa’s rand weakened early on Monday as the leadership race for the new leader of the ruling African National Congress gathered momentum, with the largest voting bloc expected to signal its preferred candidate this week. At 0709 GMT, the rand traded at 13.7950 versus the dollar, down 0.4 percent from its New York close…
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Nigerian capital inflows more than doubled in Q3 to $4.2BN
The total value of capital imported into Nigeria more than doubled in the third quarter to $4.15 billion, after the economy emerged from a recession, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. Nigeria’s economy grew in the second quarter, climbing out of its first recession in 25 years, as oil revenues rose. Last…
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Court challenge to South Africa mining charter postponed to February
A court hearing for a challenge by South Africa’s mining industry to revisions to a sector charter which include raising levels of black ownership has been postponed to February from December, country’s Chamber of Mines said on Monday. “A judge decided that two days was not enough time and asked for three days, so the…
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East Africa:Burundi’s inflation rises to 17.6% yr/yr in October
Burundi’s inflation accelerated to 17.6 percent year-on-year in October from 15.2 percent in September due to rising food costs on local markets, official figures showed on Monday. Food inflation jumped to 28.0 percent in the year to October from 23.9 percent in September, the Institute of Economic Studies and Statistics (ISTEEBU) said in its monthly…
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Kenya: Unclaimed assets now hit Sh25bn
Unclaimed cash and securities surrendered to a State agency have hit Sh25.9 billion as managers of non-compliant firms face heavy penalties and jail terms. While the agency is now holding a large haul of cash, most of the surrendered assets are by publicly traded firms. Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority (UFAA) chief executive Kellen Kariuki said…