Why South Africa’s banks are becoming telecom companies

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South Africa’s banks are no longer competing only for deposits, loans and payments. Increasingly, they are battling over something less visible but more valuable: the digital infrastructure that powers customers’ everyday lives.

Over the past decade, lenders including FNB, Capitec, Standard Bank and Nedbank have quietly built mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) businesses. Absa is…

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