{"id":515236,"date":"2021-08-24T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T07:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=515236"},"modified":"2021-08-24T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T07:20:26","slug":"business-talk-in-conversation-with-snapscan-ceo-chris-zietsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/515236\/business-talk-in-conversation-with-snapscan-ceo-chris-zietsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 In conversation with SnapScan CEO Chris Zietsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Zietsman is the chief executive officer of SnapScan &#8211; one of the first contactless payments platforms in South Africa when it launched in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Having served as chief financial officer at SnapScan from 2016, Zietsman was appointed as CEO in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Zietsman started his career as a chartered accountant and aims to combine finance and technology to offer easy payment solutions to South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>SnapScan launched one of the first mobile payment apps in South Africa \u2013 combining ingenuity with Standard Bank\u2019s financial infrastructure and expertise.<\/p>\n<p>In this Business Talk episode, Zietsman discusses the group&#8217;s new wallet feature, allowing peer-to-peer payments through the SnapScan app.<\/p>\n<p>He highlights the growth SnapScan has seen over the last 18 months and how it is moving beyond its current scan-to-pay solution into a complete payment ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Zietsman shares how the company has had to adapt rapidly in the face of the pandemic and what can be expected from SnapScan in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview is embedded below. You can find all Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpR1OurZpYo\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SnapScan CEO Chris Zietsman discusses the growth SnapScan has seen over the last 18 months and how it is moving beyond its current scan-to-pay solution into a complete payment ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":515238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[15578,7993],"class_list":["post-515236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-business-talk","tag-snapscan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515382,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515236\/revisions\/515382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}