{"id":801031,"date":"2024-11-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=801031"},"modified":"2024-11-25T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:13:39","slug":"business-talk-standard-banks-thandiwe-legwaila-reveals-how-ai-is-reshaping-digital-banking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/801031\/business-talk-standard-banks-thandiwe-legwaila-reveals-how-ai-is-reshaping-digital-banking\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Standard Bank\u2019s Thandiwe Legwaila reveals how AI is reshaping digital banking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Standard Bank\u2019s Thandiwe Legwaila discusses the evolution of transaction banking in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legwaila is the Head of Transaction Banking for Standard Bank CIB and has worked at the company for close to 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this time, she has held key positions \u2013 including Head of Documentary Trade Products, and Head of Trade and Working Capital Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legwaila holds a Bachelor of Law, a Bachelor of Social Science, and a Master of Law from the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Legwaila explains how transactional banking is evolving in response to the digital transformation taking place in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She discusses why banks must invest in digital platforms and details how many transaction banks have already responded through emergent technologies like AI and machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legwaila then reveals the opportunities for future innovation in digital banking that she\u2019s most excited about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes by discussing the opportunities available to the transaction banking sector to bring better services to underserved markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Thandiwe Legwaila below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHVasZrpxWM?si=jx-TklYtRLlc2LUS\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thandiwe Legwaila has worked at Standard Bank for close to 20 years and has a deep understanding of the evolving transaction banking industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":801032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[8556,3162,499,21071,20733],"class_list":["post-801031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-ai","tag-digital-banking","tag-standard-bank","tag-thandiwe-legwaila","tag-transaction-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031","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=801031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801037,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031\/revisions\/801037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}