Wednesday, July 15

Banking

Discovery Bank offer its customers a multicurrency foreign exchange account, a platform to buy and trade shares, and discounts on their travels, highlighting its focus on attracting more business people. www.theexchange.africa

The EasyEquities investment portfolios integrate directly into Discovery Bank’s Vitality Money programme, automatically counting towards the client’s Vitality Money status.

On September 30, 2022, Discovery Bank announced several new products and changes at its annual product update event with financial advisors. However, the CEO Hylton Kallner said that the new features will be made available from October and through the first quarter of 2022 on a phased basis.

According to Business Tech, Discovery Bank clients can use the Discovery Bank app to transact and trade in real-time in these currencies. With the Multicurrency FX Account, clients can also receive international payments and choose to pay in more than 60 currencies, Kallner said.

KCB Group Director Marketing, Corporate Affairs & Citizenship, Rosalind Gichuru offers a scholarship certificate to one of the 251 beneficiaries who will be taken through the University through the KCB Foundation Education Scholarship Program. https://theexchange.africa/

The University Scholarship Programme will facilitate a smooth transition for the top performers who attain a mean grade of A and A- and the best 2 students living with disabilities each year, from the KCB Foundation High School programme.

“The laptops are part of a deliberate effort by the Foundation to enable the scholars to effectively undertake their schoolwork as well as access their virtual class lessons” said Rosalind.

“We want our Scholars to have an equitable opportunity by continuing to access their class courses and complete their assignments on time. With many of them coming from marginalized communities, access to a laptop for purposes of following the classroom lessons or undertaking assignments was going to be a big challenge,” she added.

Kenyan businesses and the threats of cybersecurity and corruption

Phishing is a strong attack method because it is done on a large scale. It stressed that by sending massive waves of emails under the name of legitimate institutions or promoting fake pages, malicious users increase their chances of success in their hunt for innocent people’s credentials.

The article explained that phishers deploy a variety of tricks to bypass email blocking and lure as many users as possible to their fraudulent sites, adding that a common technique is HTML attachments with partially or fully obfuscated code. It stressed that HTML files allow attackers to use scripts, and obfuscate malicious content to make it harder to detect and send phishing pages as attachments instead of links.

According to a recent Interpol report, about 90 per cent of African businesses are operating without the necessary cybersecurity protocols and, therefore, are exposed to cyberattacks. The report also noted that there were more than 700 million threat detections in Africa within one year.

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