Private and investment bank, Investec, revealed operating profit for the year ending March is expected to rise by 23 per cent, a pre-close briefing statement read
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Strong launch for Standard Bank mobile transaction app

The app was downloaded 8,148 times on iOS, 3,869 on Android and 2,862 on Blackberry in the very fist week . (Image source: sxc.hu)
Standard Bank South Africas new mobile app, on which customers can carrying out banking transactions, has registered close to 15,000 downloads in its first week since being launched
Cloud strategy for global microfinance community

Temenos launch complementary go-to-market model using Microsoft technologies to address affordable access to finance in emerging markets
ZMK24bn set aside for ICT across Zambian schools

The Zambian government has set aside ZMK24bn for the installation of ICTs in schools throughout the country : Image by iSchool
The Zambian government has set aside ZMK24bn for the installation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in schools throughout the country
Stronger protection for passwords

Indecipherable for computers: The Captcha with the password is very grainy, as it is generated in a physical system close to a critical change of state (left). In a chaotic process, it is made completely unreadable. The process can be reversed with an easily remembered password, however. (Photo: Sergej Flach / MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems)
Hacking programmes use so-called brute-force attacks to try out all possible character combinations to guess passwords