ABSA Bank

42 results about this entity

Period: 07 Oct 2004 - 24 Apr 2025

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Cross Switch achieves new payment licence in South Africa

Cross Switch, a leading provider of innovative payment solutions, has reached a significant milestone by securing its own Third-Party Payment Processor (TPPP) licence.

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Absa brings contactless to UnionPay cardholders in South Africa

Absa, in partnership with UnionPay International (UPI), is launching contactless payments to UnionPay cardholders across South Africa, thereby strengthening its commitment to offering a seamless and secure payments experience.

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Absa hosts hackathon

Absa Group is proud to announce the successful completion of its second annual Hackathon, aimed at igniting engagement and fostering innovation within the Absa Technology community.

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Absa CIB joins Contour trade finance network

Contour, the leading digital trade finance network, announced that leading Pan-African bank, Absa Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), is the first African bank to officially join its growing production network.

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South Africa readies for real-time low value payments

South Africa's top four banks are to begin the roll out of Payshap, a low value, interbank, real-time digital payments service aimed at increasing financial inclusion to the underbanked segement.

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Absa introduces digital account opening

We live in an increasingly digital and inter-connected world, driven in large part by a collective reliance on mobile phone technology.

Absa rolls out upgraded Surecomp software across ten African countries

Surecomp, the leading provider of global trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced that South African bank Absa Group has gone live with the latest version of its back-office trade finance solution IMEX in 10 countries across the continent as part of their ongoing digitisation initiatives.

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Absa warns of data leak by rogue employee

South African bank Absa has warned customers that a rogue employee sold on some of their personal data to an external third party.

Absa registers 10,000 customers in first four months for for chat banking on WhatsApp

More than 10 000 customers have registered since Absa launched its secure, private and fully integrated ChatBanking on WhatsApp service on 11 July 2018.

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Absa ARO moves to Fiserv for card management across nine African nations

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV) a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, today announced that Absa Regional Operations (ARO) has moved to Fiserv to support credit card management and processing in nine African nations.

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Absa invests in A2X Markets

A2X Markets is pleased to announce that Absa has become the first major South African bank to invest in the start-up stock exchange which began trading in October 2017.

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Absa rolls out PowerCard from HPS across Africa

HPS, a leading multinational provider of payment solutions, today announces that it has completed the modernisation of Absa’s African Operations outside of South Africa (“ARO”) acquiring payments infrastructure journey.