The role of the CFO has evolved from managing compliance and accounting activities to providing strategic leadership and driving digital transformation. As finance enters the CFO 3.0 era, CFOs need tools that enable them to deliver on their core competencies, and to be confident in driving the digital agenda throughout their organisation. CFOs are no
Leading digital money transfer company WorldRemit has launched WorldRemit for Business, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business owners to quickly pay their employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing emerging markets such as Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. The platform will first be available to U.K.-registered businesses. WorldRemit’s low fees
Fintech company, AlexPay Africa, is on a record-breaking spree, with the introduction of new products and services that aim to take competition in the segmented telco-based payment ecosystem a notch higher. From its pioneering facial recognition technology to enabling corporate clients make bulk payments through its mobile-based application, AlexPay hopes to realise its goal of
The topic of ethics in business, and specifically in the technology industry, was thrust into the limelight in the second half of 2017 – as a number of local ICT players became embroiled in scandals relating to maladministration. Share prices were hammered. Reputations left in tatters. Quality talent fled to firms standing on a stronger
OVH Energy Marketing Ltd, Nigeria’s leading provider of trusted petroleum products and services and licensee of the Oando retail brand, has announced its acquisition of brand new aircraft fueling bowsers as part of its expansion plans to deepen its service offerings in providing fueling solutions to players in the aviation industry. Manufactured by Flightline UK,
In line with its vision of a better life for all its customers, AirtelTigo has launched AirtelTigo Business, its Business-to-Business arm in Accra. AirtelTigo Business aims to provide end-to-end connectivity solutions to Small, Medium and Large corporate organisations to enable them achieve growth and profitability. Under the tagline “Making Business simple”, AirtelTigo Business offers total
As part of its strategic drive to strengthen business partnerships between Nigeria and China, First Bank of Nigeria Limited recently organised the FirstBank-Chinese Business forum. The event themed; Deepening Sino-Nigerian Cooperation was held recently at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos. The FirstBank Chinese Business Forum was organised as part of the overarching strategy by the Bank
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted by former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, inaugurated its first Global Business Forum with an astounding line up of global innovators, including Africa’s richest man, Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote. Following talks by former US president Bill Clinton, French president Emmanuel Macron, Apple
Trans-Nationwide Express Plc (Tranex) has informed its shareholders that its rights issue which opened on Monday, July 24, 2017 will be channels to business expansion, to set on a growth trajectory in the logistics sector. Tranex is a wholly owned Nigerian Logistics Company engaged in domestic and International Express delivery, haulage, freight and other ancillary
Results driven, self-motivated and resourceful are the words that best describe Sanja Verma; the Chief financial controller for Japan Motors. Having spent about two decades in the automobile industry, he has a proven record of providing key financial data, support and reporting to assist in key business decisions. In this interview with Carol Opata –
