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If banks want to remain competitive in the face of neo-bank and fintech upstarts, they’ll have to fundamentally change the way they do business to be digital first. And if they’re going to achieve that goal, then working with technology partners to ensure that they have the right infrastructure in place will be crucial. That was the overriding message from the speakers at a media roundtable event hosted during the Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit for Africa 2023, recently held in Cape Town, South Africa. Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If banks want to remain competitive in the face of neo-bank and fintech upstarts, they’ll have to fundamentally change the way they do businessRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowu7GVCw:productID":"","_crdt_document":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2394,56,184,1924,738,1721],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-cape-town","tag-economy","tag-financial-technology","tag-huawei","tag-south-africa","tag-telecommunications"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-300x200.jpg","large":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIndustry players call for a 'non-stop' approach to Africa's banking digitisation - 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