1/8/2018/Reuters South Africa’s Absa Group on Wednesday officially launched Whatsapp banking, in its latest push to become a digitally-led African bank, with more than 10,000 customers already registered to date since early July. The service faces competition from WeChat, China’s biggest Internet-based mobile messaging platform which launched in Africa in […]

Culled—Proshare August 2, 2018/BoG Release / WebTV News The Bank of Ghana has collapsed five banks into a Consolidated Bank of Ghana Limited. The banks are BEIGE, Sovereign, Construction, UniBank and Royal Bank. This is a consequential action following the insolvency of four banks after investigations by the Bank of […]

August 2, 2018/FirstBank Nigeria FirstBank has announced the launch of chat banking on WhatsApp. FirstBank customers can leverage the real-time messaging capabilities of the WhatsApp Business solution to check their account balances as well as perform simple banking queries. The launch which took place on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, is […]