3 min read Every March 15, we celebrate World Consumer Rights Day. Or do we? Here’s the thing: while many South Africans know their basic consumer rights, they still lack choice in one of the most important areas of all. Their finances.That’s why...
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Open Banking: here’s how it’s going to change your life.
2 min read Open Banking has landed in South Africa, with the recent launch of Spot Money – and it’s going to change the way you manage and control your money by giving you more choices around banking and financial services. But what is Open...
Contactless payments? Tap that.
3 min read Last month, we unleashed a wave of awesomeness on you. Payments. Digital banking. A marketplace for your financial services. All wrapped up in one ‘super-app’. Now we’re taking our relationship to the next level. Yup, we’re ready...
Here’s what your bank account is costing you in 2021.
3 min read The best things in life are freeBut you can keep them for the birds and beesNow give me money. That's what I want. These legendary words were first sung by The Beatles back in 1963. And they only got it partly right. Here’s what they...
Open banking. It’s like Uber, but for banking. And better.
3 min read What’s with all the buzzwords in the financial services space? Blockchain. Bitcoin. Forex trading. Open banking. It’s tough enough knowing what they all mean. Even tougher knowing what they actually do for us. At Spot, we’re all about...
Nobody puts GenZ in the corner.
4 min read What’s with this idea that millennials and GenZs don’t care about money? Of course we care about money. It’s what drives our lives. Fuels our lifestyles. It’s what helps us take care of our tribes. Build our futures. Achieve our goals....
Finding your Spot in the sun.
3 min read ‘So, what do you do?’ It’s one of the first questions we ask when we meet someone new. And then we base much of our view of them, and where they fit into the world, on the answer. You’re a web designer? Must be a hipster. A developer?...
Spot. We’re open for business. Join our world.
2 min read Start talking about open banking and fintechs, and people immediately start throwing the ‘D’ word around. Disruption. If you believe everything you read, fintechs are going to disrupt everything from the way people bank to the global...
Welcome to Spot.
2 min read Or, for many of you, welcome back. You may know us as the app that made sending and receiving money as easy as sending a text. We still do that. But we’re growing. We’re not just a payments app anymore. We’re a proudly South African open...
