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Steinhoff Delays Earnings Report as Auditing Complexity Deepens

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Steinhoff International Holdings NV pushed back the dates for the publication of audited earnings for 2017 and 2018 after the findings of a forensic probe by PwC made the process more time consuming and complex. The South African retailer, which almost collapsed amid an accounting scandal in late 2017, is working toward ensuring that all appropriate adjustments are made to valuations and profitability at various subsidiaries, the company said in…

Harnessing Africa’s Digital Potential Could Help Tackle Closing The Digital Divide

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Today’s digital divide is very much a reflection of existing global and societal divides. Often, existing inequalities are exacerbated by a lack of internet access. This is particularly reflected in emerging economies like Africa, where people may not always have the means to access the best that technology has to offer. I strongly believe closing the digital divide, between those who have access to the Internet and those who…

DEMYSTIFYING BLOCKCHAIN ONE BLOCK AT A TIME

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In the early days of the internet, evangelists were trying to get people to believe in its vast potential, and there were many who said that they did not believe in this new technology. They did not believe that information will be held on a server, but instead insisted that it would continue to be held on a CD-ROM or a floppy disk. How wrong they were! We think…

No Simple Solution to Achieving Scale In Global Mobile Payments

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In many ways, cash transactions are the original “mobile payments”. They are fast, easy, cheap, and relatively secure, and have set a very high payment experience bar that any other form of mobile payment will need to exceed if it plans on making the use of cash obsolete. Not only are cash payments instantly ‘cleared’ between the buyer and seller, they are mostly universally accepted, require no complex hardware…

INTERNET OF THINGS: ENABLING THE FULL VALUE OF CONNECTIVITY

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Technology has the potential to fundamentally transform societies. It enables rapid improvements to industrial production and societal services, positively influencing the way we live and interact with our environment. Africa is home to over a billion people and the population is expected to grow in the coming years. It is also a continent with the most growing economies and many from a low base. To accelerate its journey towards…

Riding the Wave Of Artificial Intelligence in the Banking Sector

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Ever since the term Artificial Intelligence was coined by John McCarthy, the field of Artificial Intelligence has moved through many phases. The subject of Artificial Intelligence actually predates personal computing, it all started with “an ancient wish to forge the gods.” As Pamela McCorduck would put it. In 1950, Alan Toring, the English Mathematician published a paper in which he deduced the possibility of creating a machine that ‘thinks’….

INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS: A REALITY CHECK

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s entrepreneurial activity is at its highest level since 2013, the global entrepreneurship monitor’s (GEM) latest report for South Africa 2017/2018 has revealed. Total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) in South Africa is at 11.0%, 4.1 percentage points higher compared to 2016’s score of 6.9%. This is the measure of all adults in the population that are involved in early stage entrepreneurship. However, this is far from demonstrating a…

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