NEWS

My old colleagues at the World Federation of Advertising  have recently estimated that by 2025 over $50 billion will be wasted annually on ad fraud worldwide. IAB Europe has released a European-level ‘Guide…

Mastercard data shows that almost half of all spend in recent months was online, for every $100 spent in MEA, nearly half ($47) was spent on ecommerce in May compared to $35 in February 2020. Earlier…

Business Insider Intelligence’s latest report, The Global SMB Neobanks Report, shows that digital-only banks with industry-leading capabilities that do not operate physical branches or rely on legacy back-ends (known as Neobanks) have recently increased their business rapidly. Europe has…

Michelle Chivunga and I have just completed a paper on Digital Disruption in Africa for SAIIA (https://saiia.org.za/research/digital-disruption-in-africa-mapping-innovations-for-the-african-free-trade-area-in-post-covid-times/). Inevitably we had to tackle the issue of Data Sovereignty, which covers 2…

The international policy research body, CUTS, has just produced a very readable report on ecommerce in COVID times – http://www.cuts-geneva.org/pdf/KP2020-Study-Fast_Forward_E-Commerce.pdf and UNCTAD released a study on ecommerce mainly in the…