Tag: digital wallet

With recent research showing that only 14% of South African consumers are ready to go completely cashless, retailers should be looking at ways to accommodate their customers’ preferred way to pay, while also reducing their operating costs.

Following several years of constant global instability, people are gaining greater access to emerging technologies - including Artificial Intelligence (AI), web3, and tokenisation - advancing the next generation of creativity, community and data privacy.

On-demand online grocery shopping – like many other e-commerce categories – has become intertwined in everyday life. From fashion apparel and entertainment to more unconventional categories such as social enterprise, consumers are shifting from bricks to clicks, lending to growth in local e-commerce market.

Whether through augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) – the reality is that the future of shopping is blended and immersive and will harness innovative digital tools by creating immersive experiences to reel in, and keep customers engaged and shopping for more.

This article present some thoughts on how mobile money, cross-border payments and ‘buy now, pay later’ are transforming the financial sector, particularly in emerging markets, for the better. Last year saw an unprecedented rate of change in the financial sector, with huge growth in the use of digital financial services.