Here is a day in the life of an Italian family including smartworking, state of industry, eCommerce business and DIY retail, and government support.
Everything here in our home is actually quite calm. We are not in a panic state. We are pretty relaxed. We have the whole family together which is nice. I suppose one of the advantages is that it reunites us all. We spend a lot of time together.
Everybody is cleaning their cupboards, or...
We are seeing a number of existing eCommerce businesses thriving, and new online startups fulfilling a need, in the thick of COVID-19. I thought I’d let you know how you can use us at www.africanpaymentsolutions.com and www.europepaymentsolutions.com to restructure and optimise your payment experience and operation across Europe. UK and Africa and get it live pretty much with immediate effect.
We are noticing that, because the financial world ha...
Let's think through what’s going to happen in an advanced stage of COVID-19 across Africa and how it could affect eCommerce and online payments.
The “haves” are going to be hit really hard - travel brought to a standstill, most businesses closed, people out of work, stocks and shares plummeted, loans defaulted, less old people, banks bankrupt, governments picking up the pieces.
COVID-19 hasn’t hit Africa at the time of writing, ...
As a leading African payments team we were thinking through the effects of COVID-19 on our eCommerce and Online Payments industry and thought we would share our insights with you.
It looks like the only way to beat this thing for the moment is to stay at home. How does this affect online business? Travel is off limits for now, so no airline processing and no hospitality bookings - one of the biggest eCommerce verticals in Africa. No gathering o...
I know it seems like Libra’s gone away for the moment as a potential global currency of the internet, but has it really? While it’s still tackling its legal challenges around the globe, a talk at Blockchain Africa gave some interesting perspectives on its evaluation as a currency for introduction in South Africa. I thought this might be interesting for our multinational eCommerce companies when considering future key African payment methods...
Are 500m “unbanked” actually going to leapfrog the world and become the “bankless”? Why bother becoming banked when you can be bankless?
Already Africa has the benefit of mobile money which has completely transformed the financial landscape over the past 13 years since the inception of M-Pesa with the introduction of digital money.
The banks struggle to keep up with this consumer movement as a result of legacy systems and ...
