Standard Bank

91 results about this entity

Period: 11 Oct 2004 - 20 Mar 2024

Standard Bank gears up for go live of payments blockchain

Standard Bank of South Africa is preparing for the go-live of a private permissioned blockchain payment system for conducting overseas foreign exchange trades on behalf of corporate clients.

Standard Bank adopts RiskIQ suite to defend online presence

RiskIQ, the global leader in digital threat management, today announced that Standard Bank has deployed its suite of products to automate the discovery and threat analysis of brand infringement, cybercrime and web-based attacks against its digital presence.

Mastercard acquires Oltio from Standard Bank

Furthering its ambitions to displace cash in emerging markets, Mastercard has acquired mobile payments technology company Oltio from South Africa's Standard Bank.

Standard Bank joins CCRM digital trade network

Standard Bank has signed an agreement with CCRManager Pte Ltd, a global trade FinTech company, joining their global innovative electronic platform as a member bank.

Standard Bank snaps up mobile payments outfit

South Africa's Standard Bank has bought a majority stake in Firepay, the local startup behind popular QR code-based mobile payments service SnapScan. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

Yakuza arrested over massive ATM heist

Japanese police have arrested 11 men, including a Yakuza, in connection with the theft of Yen1.8 billion ($17.3 million) from cash machines across the country in a co-ordinated two-hour raid in May.

South Africa sets standard for fingerprint banking

South Africa's payments body has released a standard to enable biometrics to be used on payment cards and to herald what it hopes will be an industry-wide roll-out of fingerprint banking.

Standard Bank releases banking app across four African markets

Standard Bank is on a committed journey of rapid digitization across the continent, offering its customers more convenient ways to interact with their personal banking services.

Thomson Reuters signs Barclays, Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Bank to SA KYC utility

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of its Org ID managed service solution for Know Your Customer (KYC) due diligence in South Africa, together with design partner banks Barclays Africa, Rand Merchant Bank (a division of FirstRand Bank) and Standard Bank of South Africa who have all committed to use the Org ID service to perform KYC on their populations of corporate and institutional banking clients.

WeChat launches mobile wallet in South Africa

WeChat, the social messaging app developed by Chinese e-commerce outfit Tencent, has launched a mobile wallet service in South Africa in partnership with Standard Bank.

Meet the 50-year old millennials

Forget millennials, banks should be focusing their efforts on a new breed of 'digital natives' who transcend age boundaries and have fundamentally different expectations about their financial services needs, according to a study conducted by innovation agency Claro and Anthemis on behalf of six top banks.

EBS Direct adds Metallinvestbank and Standard Bank as liquidity providers

EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today the addition of Metallinvestbank as the first Russian liquidity provider (LP) and Standard Bank as the first South African LP on the EBS Direct platform.