Innovation

The annual FNB Business Innovation Awards recognises small to medium sized businesses that leverage innovation to create jobs and build scalable businesses in any industry. At the June 2015 awards, one of the finalists, SPARK Schools achieved a special recognition and a promise from FNB Business to help its ongoing mission of providing high value low …

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The inaugural South African conference of Singularity University was held recently at Kyalami under the theme #futureproofAfrica and covered topics such as robotics, AI, crowd sourcing, fintech, space and medtech. In the closing session, conference organiser Bohdanna Kesala asked delegates “Now What?” and after 2 days of intense exponential thinking this was probably the most …

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African entrepreneurs taking on Silicon Valley got their big break at this year’s MTN Business Aspiring Innovators Programme. In its second year, the main event took place at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2016, arguably the world’s most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. According to Gartner, CEOs globally are expecting an 80% uplift …

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People and businesses will always need banking, but will they always need banks? This question is driving a wave of disruption and new thinking in the industry. Discovery has announced plans to enter the local retail banking market; telco and tech companies are making similar moves. Fintech is offering completely new ways of doing business and customers are …

Banking under siege by new entrants and new technology; inflection point or Kodak moment? Read More »

Corporate sponsors of Africa’s first peer to peer coding academy have secured their students for a 4 month WeThinkCode internship in 2017. Telkom, Derivco, RMB, Britehouse and BBD were among the top South African IT employers vying for the cream of the crop at the sponsor day held in central Johannesburg recently. Recruiters pulled out all the stops to …

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At the recent Digital Disruptors Conference at GIBS Business School, South African industry leaders spoke about disruptive approaches to their business models. Google South Africa’s “mobile moment” happened in late 2014 when internet searches from mobile devices exceeded for the first time those performed on desktops. By 2020 there will be 500 million people in Sub Saharan Africa …

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The disruptive nature of Blockchain and its impact in financial services was recently presented at GIBS by Farzam Ehsani, leader of RMB’s Blockchain Initiative. He also helped establish The Foundery, RMB’s FinTech unit and believes that blockchain technology will become a new and necessary normal in our lives just like the internet. The way we store and exchange …

Blockchain, bitcoin and banking; how does it work and why it will change everything. Read More »

FNB recently hosted a trip for 2 hackathon-winning students from Africa’s first peer to peer coding education academy. Stephen Asiedu and Sizwe Mamba come from very different backgrounds but they have two things in common. Firstly; as WeThinkCode students they beat 30,000 other hopefuls to make it through the rigorous assessments and secure a place in the first ever …

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