13/07/2026
Payment security has spent two decades treating automated traffic as a threat to be filtered out. Agentic commerce is reversing that logic. Visa has enrolled local banks in its Agentic Ready programme, Mastercard has launched Agent Pay, and OpenAI has integrated Instant Checkout with Stripe. In March 2026, Mastercard and Google open-sourced a protocol called Verifiable Intent. Behind each launch sits the same idea: an AI agent transacts on a customer’s behalf, and the payment completes without further human input.
06/07/2026
The global cybersecurity landscape is approaching a turning point as quantum computing accelerates faster than most organisations realise.
According to Wessel Pieterse, cybersecurity lead at Accelera Digital Group (ADG), the shift is not a distant, theoretical concern, but a present-day business risk that demands immediate action.
01/07/2026
Damisa, a regulated cross-border payments company built on stablecoin rails, has appointed Nick Watkins as Chairman of the Board.
As Chairman, Watkins will advise Damisa’s leadership team and support its operational development as the company expands globally and prepares for a Series A funding round process, which will kick off later this year.
26/06/2026
“As Africa’s digital payments market grows, ecommerce businesses need to treat checkout as part of the customer experience, not just the final step in a sale.” – Jonatan Allbäck, CEO & Co-Founder of NjiaPay
20/06/2026
Every Youth Day, South Africa repeats the same message: young people must become entrepreneurs. It is not wrong, but it has become an easy slogan, increasingly detached from the realities young people face and the conditions they actually need to build businesses that survive.
18/06/2026
The AI Hackathon for Southern African schools this year added AI to its judging panel for the first time. Presented by the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) and education technology company TechWays, the event gives learners across South Africa insight into use cases for AI and how it can be applied in their communities.
