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Hannes Van Rensburg

When will WeChat for the Free World Emerge

On the face of it, WeChat is just like any other chat platform. You download the WeChat app onto your mobile phone, register to use the service, and chat with any other subscriber of the service, just...

02 Sep 2020
Asia Financial Services
Hannes Van Rensburg

Some messages are more valuable than others

We live in a world of digital messages. Indeed, we are bombarded with hundreds of digital messages a day, ranging from casual chatter with our friends on our favorite chat platform, to downright rubbi...

21 Jul 2020
Hannes Van Rensburg

Taking payments in chat to market

There were some high profile announcements of WhatsApp payments available in Brazil (https://tcrn.ch/3dzlnC9) recently. Anybody interested in chat commerce sat up and took notice. Some also tried out...

30 Jun 2020
The Payments Business
Hannes Van Rensburg

The versatility of chat as a commerce channel

We truly live in a digital world. I can think of only a handful of things that we spend our time on that is not digital. For the rest, we are dependent on digital devices to interact with our world. N...

17 Jun 2020
Hannes Van Rensburg

To chat or to have a conversation

There has been a lot of hype about conversational commerce. Many say that this will be the future of how people will interact with technology. In question, however, is how will technology be able to u...

09 Jun 2020
Hannes Van Rensburg

Integrating payments with chat

For a start, it is important to define what I mean by chat. In this context, “chat” does not mean that irritating chat-blob that often pops up when you visit a website. Not at all. What I am referring...

03 Jun 2020
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Hannes Van Rensburg

Managing fraud through chat is better for businesses and users

As digitalization has transformed businesses the ever-present threat of fraud has grown exponentially. However, banks and their users are increasingly realizing that using chat platforms to manage and...

28 May 2020
Finance 2.0

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