Transwap CEO & Co-Founder Benjamin Wong shares how businesses can tap on technology to digitalise and transform business processes. While the benefits of digitalisation have been well established, many businesses have been slow to embrace it for themselves. However, with COVID-19 disrupting business-as-usual, companies were forced to adapt to new technologies
Read More
If you talked to business owners, managers and employees last year, most of them would probably tell you that employee monitoring software seems excessive and intrusive. But now that COVID-19 made us rethink work-from-home policies, this industry is booming. Many managers have realized that their employees can in fact work remotely and still
Read More
Startups can succeed if they can increase their searchability and visibility online by using SEO strategies. Despite this, many of them neglect this low-cost marketing strategy. Although SEO is free, it requires a lot of time and effort to be qualified to rank on the first page of search engines. Some
Read More
Not everything your team does will push your business forward. Here's how to refocus that time and energy - and get on a path toward long-term success. Q: I feel like my team is always scrambling, but I have trouble knowing what’s actually working. How can I tell? — Elizabeth, New Orleans You
Read More
Ahead of the planned takeoff of the much hyped African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in January 2021, for the rest of the continent, one way to succeed with the scheme is to court the cooperation and support of Nigeria. INDICATIONS are that the proposed date for the commencement of the
Read More
Nigeria’s banking and fintech sector has been growing in leaps and bounds with some experts claiming that Nigeria’s financial system is one of the most advanced in the world. Despite this, a majority of Nigerian adults fall into the categories of underbanked, unbanked, and financially excluded. As of September 27, 2020,
Read More
More than half of organisations are making decisions based on outdated data, according to new research. A global survey of 2,500 data decision makers commissioned by high-performance analytics database Exasol found than while 84% of organisations are under increasing pressure to make faster decisions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Read More
Nigerian mobility startup, Metro African Xpress (MAX) has successfully completed the issuance of a ₦400 million ($1 million) 1-year fixed-rate notes series 1 Bond. The Bond is the first part of its newly floated ₦10 billion/$22 million multicurrency Private Company Bond program (dubbed the “PCB Program”). The startup made this announcement
Read More
It’s not easy raising funding as an early-stage African startup. Institutional investors that write the biggest checks are reluctant to have that due diligence chat with you because to them, you’re still rather raw and too high-risk. For lots of startups, accelerator programmes become the springboard for raising necessary early capital.
Read More
On September 9, UnionPay International announced a partnership with Interswitch East Africa, the regional business of the Nigerian-based Interswitch Group. Under the partnership, Interswitch became a Third-Party Service Provider (TPSP) for China’s UnionPay. This means UnionPay cards will be accepted across ATMs, Points-of-Sale, QR Payments and online payments in the
Read More
