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    Motsepe seeks to shake up SA banking with fintech play

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    African Rainbow Capital’s banking partner is close to getting a licence that it wants to use to challenge the dominance of South Africa’s biggest lenders.

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has said it will sell 10% of Tyme, a Johannesburg-based lender that allows customers to access funds through their mobile phones, to billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital after buying the business in 2015.

    Tyme was granted a provisional licence by the South African Reserve Bank last year.

    “The licence is expected before the end of September,” Johan van der Merwe, co-CEO of African Rainbow Capital, said in an interview in Johannesburg on Thursday.

    The regulator is looking at the cloud-based system that ARC’s fintech partner is using to make sure it works before granting the full licence, he said.

    South Africa’s four biggest banks, including Standard Bank and FirstRand, haven’t had to face competition in the consumer market since Capitec Bank started more than 15 years ago. Now, the central bank has three provisional licensees, Tyme, insurer Discovery and the South African Post Office.

    This comes as the country’s ruling party pushes for the creation of a state-owned bank to boost lending to the majority black population and businesses that the ANC has said have been excluded from the banking system.

    “The South African banking environment is due for a bit of disruption,” Van der Merwe said. While Capitec has been able to play that role, the soon-to-be licensed lender will be a “disruption over and above that”, he said.  — Reported by Renee Bonorchis, (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP



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