Into Africa: Digitisation and financial services
Into Africa: Digitisation and financial services
18 October, 2018 •Similar Articles
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A publication for Capital Markets in Africa Digitalisation: Africa’s future
“Across Africa, eCommerce platforms flanked by payments, logistics, tourism and big data partners are starting to lift national economies. Technological disruption is transforming markets and societies across Africa in ways that wouldn’t have been possible even five years ago. And this opens huge and still largely untapped commercial potential for domestic and international businesses”
Our contribution to the October edition focuses on the usage of financial services in Southern Africa. In the age of global connectivity and the rise of African digital platforms is becoming increasingly clear that the link between the uptake of financial products and the ongoing use of those products is neither automatic nor certain.