Former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan’s new financial services venture, the app-driven Bank Zero, has been integrated with the national payments system and will now begin trial runs ahead of commercial launch.
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The South African Reserve Bank, through its fintech unit, has successfully demonstrated a real-world trial of a distributed ledger technology-based wholesale payment system. The Bank has released a report on Project
South Africa’s central bank chooses to call digital currencies such as bitcoin “cyber-tokens” because they don’t meet the requirements to be classified as money. “We don’t use the term ‘cryptocurrency’ because it doesn’t
South Africa’s economic growth could pick up faster than forecast if the right structural reforms are implemented, the Reserve Bank said. That means the economy could expand faster than the 2% for 2020 the central
The South African Reserve Bank said on Tuesday that it will complete a review into cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, before the end of 2018. The objective is to “inform an appropriate policy framework and regulatory regime
Entities involved in South Africa’s national payment system, including BankservAfrica and the Payments Association of South Africa, have begun work on a major architectural and technical overhaul to facilitate
Bank of Baroda is being investigated by South Africa’s central bank over money held for companies controlled by the politically connected Gupta family, according to a person familiar with the matter. The South African Reserve Bank’s probe
In South Africa, membership of the quirkiest club in global central banking just lost some of its cachet. The Reserve Bank is one of a handful around the world still owned by shareholders, and that eccentric structure
A stronger rand and falling inflation expectations may allow South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago to start cutting interest rates this year as long as political developments don’t derail the currency’s gains. Higher commodity prices and
The South African Reserve Bank is open to issuing a national digital currency, which would likely be based on blockchain or distributed ledger technology. “If we go the route of issuing a digital currency, the objective would be to take