I have been enjoying the domestic remittance battle taking place. It seems there is a new player joining the fight every week. Meaning we could already have too many eaters […]
Econet Wireless released their financial results for the six months ended 31 August 2021. It appears the biggest mobile network operator in the country is doing quite well. Revenues are […]
In Liam Neeson’s voice, “whoever you are, wherever you are, if you’re participating in the foreign currency parallel market, we will find out how you are doing it and we […]
Beer Garage is one of the global innovation hubs run by AB InBev with the objective of driving innovation by building a strong community of ecosystem stakeholders. The team works […]
The magnetic strip of magstripe swipe card was invented by IBM engineer Forrest Parry with invaluable help from his wife back in 1969. It has been the basis of bank […]
Recently I decided to brush up on my JavaScript skills and decided to deeply learn the language, something I have avoided for years for some reason. As part of my […]
Your pick of lenders
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Cloak and dagger…
Marketsquare is ZImbabwes newest online marketplace application that allows you to buy and sell goods, services and even advertise jobs.
Here’s a look at how the prepaid US$ (VISA or MasterCard) card options in Zim stack up against each other on transactions fees and other charges.
Cassava has released its financial statement for a six month period ending 31 August 2020 and the group’s revenue fell by 34% for the period under review.
[Image Source: Vaya Africa] A few months ago, Econet Global CEO Strive Masiyiwa announced that Vaya would start using Electric Vehicles (EVs) and it seems those electric vehicles are finally […]
Amid EcoCash’s intermittent service disruptions, some people have decided to make people panic by cooking up doomsday warnings. EcoCash has dismissed a circulating message that is saying the Ecocash service […]
A year ago, EcoLedger was launched and though it was revolutionary I wouldn’t have pictured it growing as fast as it has. In the 12 months since the application that […]
An international initiative to unite Zimbabweans who live in the diaspora in April 2020 has been announced, with preparations underway to bring a whole month of business, sports, arts, entertainment, […]
[Update] Please note the Econet self-care portal now seems up. The article however is still a fun read and most of the stuff we said here is very much still relevant. […]
Today marks the day the Interbank Foreign Currency Exchange Market opens despite banks having already started to trading forex and RTGS dollars on Friday at $1 USD/ $2.5 RTGS dollars. […]
Last week Tsitsi and Strive Masiyiwa committed $100 million for rural entrepreneurship development in Zimbabwe. The couple has really stepped up their philanthropic efforts in the country and across Africa. […]
As I said the other day before the bond notes came along making an international payment on say 11:11 says was a very easy matter. All you needed was an […]
We have said this countless times and everyone who reads this blog probably already knows: if you want to make an international payment most banks will ask you to prefund […]
It is hard to believe this but two years ago all you needed to pay your Netflix subscription was Ecocash. Signing up for the service was a trivial matter of […]
We can all agree that paying for DSTV is quite a hustle these days. The only bank that I know that was accepting bollars/zollars was Nedbank, but even they have […]
Last week FBC started advertising their new Kwik POS machine, and whilst it was very apparent that this would compete in the same space as Steward’s Kwenga POS device many […]
Last week we looked at the amazing Mi A2, it is a great phone but things the way there are right now in Zimbabwe where we are tightening the proverbial […]
It seems cases of card cloning are on the rise. Three months into the year, debit card holders had already lost $200 000 to perpetrators of bank card cloning. Now […]
Zimbabwe’s largest mobile money services provider, Ecocash has set its site on the sub dollar economy. They have now scrapped off transaction fees for all below dollar transactions when paying […]