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| Aug 5, 2026 | Capitec agrees to open Capitec Pay to rivals in Walletdoc deal | Capitec has agreed to open its Capitec Pay platform to competing payment service providers, and not to favour it over the banking industry’s shared instant-payments rail, as conditions for regulatory approval of its acquisition of payments ... |
| May 21, 2026 | Three years in, PayShap pivots to merchants | South Africa’s PayShap instant payments system has passed six million registered users and 905 million transactions since its 2023 launch, operator PayInc said on Thursday – even as the system’s owners acknowledged that costs and inconsiste... |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Hold the doom: the case for a South African comeback | Finance minister Enoch Godongwana doesn’t appear to be a politician given to hyperbole. So, when he stood in parliament on Wednesday and called his 2026 national budget a “turning point” in the management of South Africa’s public finances, ... |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Paystack COO: solving interoperability is key to Africa’s fintech future | Paystack chief operating officer Amandine Lobelle Addressing the issue of non-interoperability between different kinds of value stores such as mobile wallets, voucher cards and bank cards is the next challenge facing payment services provid... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | India’s UPI shows what South Africa’s PayShap could become – if we dare | Change rarely announces itself politely. It shifts quietly, until one day what once felt familiar no longer works. In South Africa’s payments landscape, that moment has arrived. Last week, as the Pasa International Payments Conference (PIPC... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Online casinos feast on social grants – Pick n Pay boss calls for ad ban | The harmful effects of surging online gambling rates are taking their toll on the most vulnerable in South African society. Social grant recipients and students dependent on financial aid are increasingly turning to betting in hopes of maki... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | TCS | PayInc CEO Stephen Linnell on South Africa’s payments revolution | South Africa’s payments ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. PayInc – previously BankservAfrica – sits at the core of the country’s payments infrastructure. As the builder and manager of the PayShap instant payment rails, PayInc is centra... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | PayShap success won’t automatically fix SA’s cross-border payments gap | Emanuela Saccarola. Image: LinkedIn The successful modernisation of a country’s domestic payments infrastructure onto faster, instant payment rails like South Africa’s PayShap does not always translate into similar success in the cross-bord... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Fintechs and crypto shake Africa’s banking foundations | Rapid changes in the payments landscape across Africa are challenging traditional banks, which are being forced to adapt quickly to new modes of facilitating transactions such as mobile money and cryptocurrencies. This is according to the S... |
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What has the press written about PayInc?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning PayInc, among them “Capitec agrees to open Capitec Pay to rivals in Walletdoc deal” (Aug 5, 2026) and “Three years in, PayShap pivots to merchants” (May 21, 2026).
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Yes, PayInc is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 22, 2026.