
Breaking free from legacy thinking in banks: AI, automation and the agentic operating model
Banks applying 20th-century operating models to AI risk missing the scale of opportunity, iqbusiness warns.
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Banks applying 20th-century operating models to AI risk missing the scale of opportunity, iqbusiness warns.

South Africa is facing one of its biggest agricultural crises in recent history, but you wouldn’t know it from government’s complete lack of urgency or attention to detail.

Independent energy expert warns Eskom’s solar registration campaign faces mass resistance, comparing it to failed e-tolls, with legal challenges mounting over authority.

Cassim’s career spans energy, finance, consumer industries, social impact and public sector transformation.

The cryptocurrency market has been strong this past week, as some investors have been rotating their portfolios into digital currencies with clear use cases and high adoption rates. During this time, some of the digital currencies gaining popularity include Ondo and Monero. Early investors are now looking for tokens that show steady growth, strong security, […]

The independent power producer secures R1.5 billion in funding to build the next plant of its utility-scale solar development in the Northern Cape.

DeVilliers and Jaco Botha have come a long way from waiting tables at Spur and working at a video rental store to running the company that has installed more rooftop solar power in South Africa than any other.

Best Cryptocurrencies to buy now headlines will often involve established markets with high momentum levels that have future catalysts on the horizon. Present market trends reflect a renewed expression of interest at various levels of the cryptoeconomic system, where selected cryptocurrencies show technical analysis indicators before larger accumulation phases. Within this environment,...

One of the quietest ways to read the crypto market isn’t through Twitter threads or YouTube hype, it’s through whale wallets. When big money moves, patterns start to form. And right now, analysts tracking five large on-chain wallets noticed something interesting: Despite thousands of available tokens, these wallets continue to accumulate the same five assets. […]

Luminance, the global leader in Legal-Grade™ AI for the enterprise, today announced the appointment of Jonty Koekemoer as VP, to lead the company’s new regional hub in South Africa and supercharge expansion across the continent amid growing demand. Luminance has selected South Africa as a regional hub due to the country’s mature and sophisticated legal […]

Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.

The Automobile Association advises that motorists who own vehicles with poor safety ratings consider transitioning to safer models.
The UK government has awarded guaranteed electricity prices to offshore wind projects totaling 8.4 GW in a bid to revive wind development, attract nearly $30 billion in private investment, and stabilize energy costs. The New York Times reports: On Wednesday, the British government said that it would provide guaranteed electricity prices for a group of wind farms off England, Scotland and Wales...

With an imminent end-of-support deadline, SAP would like nothing better than for all its customers to move to S4. And fast.

A .SPACE domain name is an on-brand extension to promote everything from creative collections and online stores to physical spaces and community hubs.

Axelspace Corporation (“Axelspace”), a leading developer and operator of microsatellites dedicated to realizing its vision of “Space within Your Reach,” has made a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jethi Software Development PLC (“Jethi”), an Ethiopian technology company, to cooperate on addressing social and development challenges through the utilization of satellite-based...

The Department of Higher Education and Training calls on prospective students to make use of the Central Application Service.

The site’s co-founder speaks to the BBC for the online encyclopedia’s 25th anniversary.

One type of payment has been held back from wider adoption in South Africa due to fragmentation.

Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t consolidated under a small number of big tech firms. Nor had it capitalized on consumer attention, surveilling users and delivering ads. Unfortunately, the AI industry is now taking a page from the social […]

UK Financial Ltd today announced that its MayaCat Regulated Security Token (SMCAT) has officially made history as the world’s first exchange-traded token structured under the ERC-3643 regulated security token standard. Following this milestone, UK Financial Ltd confirmed that it is actively coordinating with the CATEX Exchange to determine the most efficient and fully compliant method […]