by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
As digital commerce continues to accelerate owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mastercard has announced it will offer tokenisation services to merchants with app, e-commerce, and recurring billing card-on-file program in South Africa, further protecting consumers and...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Before the outbreak of Covid-19, working remotely was a topical buzz-phrase, something many companies vaguely aspired to but didn’t really feel the need to implement in their organisation. As the pandemic worsened across the globe, forcing country after country into...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
For several months now, office spaces across South Africa have been gathering dust, void of occupants as employees have been working from home. By Garsen Naidu, country manager of Cisco South Africa While there is no telling when the pandemic will end, if the current...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 24, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
With South Africa’s unemployment rate at above 30% for Q1 2020 – and more than half of the youth estimated to be unemployed – we need to get creative about addressing our joblessness crisis. By Grant Lapping, MD of DataCore Media The Covid-19 pandemic could be the...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 24, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Nearly every part of daily life has changed as the world continues to fight back against Covid-19. Most observers agree that the increased focus on digital commerce by consumers and merchants will likely remain even after a vaccine is found and the economy rebounds....
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 24, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Restricted trading conditions and constrained consumer spending due to lockdown regulations and the devastating economic impact of the pandemic have placed small and medium enterprises (SMEs) under severe financial pressure. While some sectors have fared worse than...
