Business News Today Kenya Joins African Crypto Leader States Kenya has boosted its crypto adoption pathway, and established itself as a crypto friendly state, after passing a bill to regulate digital assets like cryptocurrencies, a senior parliamentarian announced yesterday. The country is looking to boost investments into the sector by creating clear rules and guide rails for the emerging industry. The East African state is now one of only six African nations to have clear crypto regulations in place and joins South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius, Botswana and Ghana as African Crypto adoption leaders. Legislators enacted the Virtual Asset Service Providers…
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In this episode of “No Free Lunch,” host Greg Stewart engages with Amish Shunker, Head of Trade for Africa at Standard Bank, to explore the evolving landscape of payments and trade in Africa. The discussion highlights Africa’s role as a hub for fintech innovation, driven by mobile-led economies and digital-savvy consumers. Amish shares insights from his extensive career in financial services, emphasising the transformative impact of technology on banking and trade across the continent. Amish reflects on his journey from Accenture to Citibank and finally to Standard Bank, noting the significant changes in the banking sector over the years. He…
Creating a Customer-Centric Business: Strategies to Prioritise User Experience There is an old business story that says that every happy customer is likely to tell 2-3 people about your business or product and how happy they are with it, however, on the flip-side, every unhappy customer is likely to tell 5-7 people about their bad experience. With an exceptionally competitive marketplace, where customers, for the most part have multiple options at their fingertips, building a customer-centric business today isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a key growth and survival strategy. At the heart of it, customer centricity means placing the customer’s needs,…
Business News Today AI Agent Password Conundrum Solved 1Password has solved the AI Agent headache of creating an AI agent secure login process without compromising access to passwords. The company has launched a new product – Secure Agentic Autofill and Browserbase. This new integration allows AI agents running on Browserbase to request credentials from 1Password to authenticate with web services without ever exposing any sensitive credentials. the product creates a Zero-Knowledge Security protocol where credentials never touch the AI directly. Their Just-in-Time Auth allows for auto-inject of credentials at runtime with human oversight, while the Smart Mapping feature auto-selects correct…
Robotics World Just Shifted As far as new Robotic Tech development announcements go, few have sparked as much buzz as Figure AI’s unveiling of their new Figure 03 yesterday. Billed as the “Model T of robots,” this third-generation humanoid marks a significant shift toward affordable, scalable domestic assistants, capable of tackling everyday chores with human-like finesse. Standing at 5 feet 6 inches and weighing around 70 kilograms, the Figure 03 isn’t just another prototype, it’s designed for mass production, with ambitions to integrate the robot into its own assembly lines for self-sustaining manufacturing. Powered by Figure’s proprietary Helix AI system—a…
Today we see traditional markets grappling with inflation and geopolitical turbulence, driving safe haven assets such as gold to record highs among the chaos. In this same environment cryptocurrency has emerged as the ultimate disruptor, minting fortunes overnight and luring blue-chip corporations into its encrypted embrace. Crypto Wealth Report Details The Crypto Wealth Report 2025 from Henley & Partners and New World Wealth, released recently, paints a vivid picture of a seismic investment shift. The global crypto market capitalisation has ballooned to $3.3 trillion, a staggering 45% leap from the previous year. This surge has birthed nearly 70,000 new crypto…
Business News Today US Senator Cruz Pushes for Deeper Energy Ties with Africa Senator Ted Cruz has advocated for enhanced energy cooperation between the United States and Africa at the African Energy Week in Cape Town, positioning the continent as a strategic partner and alternative to Chinese influence. He emphasised U.S. investment in exploration, production, and infrastructure, drawing parallels to Texas’ energy model to drive Africa’s industrial growth, favouring commercial diplomacy over aid amid competition from China and Gulf nations. U.S. energy officials, including from the Department of Energy and Export-Import Bank, supported this through a roundtable promoting private investment,…
Within a global period of rapid tech advances, such as we are currently experiencing, the Red Hat Sumit this year unsurprisingly brought a focus on the latest tech wave consuming corporate and investor attention – Artificial Intelligence. Dion Harvey, Regional General Manager for Red Hat SSA, put this into perspective in his opening address saying “This is just a crazy timeline, and at the centre of this arms race I think are two technologies, two foundational technologies that are really set in my opinion to change the shape of this planet forever. That’s AI and quantum computing”. Setting The AI…
Business News Today Market Bubble Risks Persist Amid Selective Opportunities Several comments have raised concerns about inflated stock prices globally. JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, who leads America’s largest bank, commented yesterday that he was “far more worried than others” about a serious market correction, which he said could come in the next six months to two years, While CNBC’s Josh Brown warned of a potential market bubble fuelled by AI and tech exuberance, yet identified value in diversified assets like healthcare and staples. With the S&P 500 hovering near peaks, overvaluation has become a concern on some stocks, however, fundamentals-driven…
Seismic Global Shifts Outlined Richard Sellschop, Senior Partner at McKinsey provided a clear outline of how the markets are shifting. A leading shift has been the rapid growth in the gold price with a more than 50% growth in the last year. The last time this happened was back in 1979 when major geopolitical tensions as well as high inflation rates and oil price volatility drove a massive increase of around 129% in the gold price in a year. Similarly today, geopolitics and supply-chain disruptions and a race to secure critical mineral supplies for mushrooming tech and green related industries…
