Financial stress is clearly a problem for many South Africans. According to the NCR, less than half of those who are credit active are current on...
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Capitec overtakes FNB as South Africa’s 2nd biggest bank, according to reweighted AMPS
AMPS has been reweighted and shows some interesting movements within SA’s banking sector The reweighted AMPS has been released, and since it was...
Financial inclusion lessons from SASSA and Net1
We have followed the Net1 SASSA story closely for a long time and first wrote about it in late 2016, see Financial Inclusion and G2P payments. This...
Credit Markets in South Africa – The Consumer Experience
The number of active credit consumers in South Africa has grown strongly in recent years. According to the NCR, as at Q3 2016 there were over 24...
Financial Inclusion and G2P payments: Lessons from South Africa
G2P payments in South Africa, banking millions? The South African government, through the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), provides...
Eighty20 hosts local bitcoin exchange, BitX
Eighty20 has invited Pieter Heyns from BitX, a local Bitcoin exchange, to come and talk to our friends, network and wider community about the...
Remittances for Financial Inclusion
Illana Melzer, Director of Strategic Research at Eighty20, presented at the Alternative Banking Conference on 29 October 2015 in Johannesburg. The...
Money Transfers in South Africa
The Eight20 Money Transfers Survey was commissioned by FinMark Trust in collaboration with Cenfri. The survey forms part of a larger study to better...
What should we do about consumer credit markets in SA?
The situation is dire. According to the Credit Bureau Monitor published by the NCR 1 32% of credit active South Africans are in arrears of 90 days...
