{"id":832100,"date":"2025-07-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=832100"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:09:50","slug":"business-talk-ian-thompson-on-how-the-payments-and-fintech-industry-is-evolving-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/832100\/business-talk-ian-thompson-on-how-the-payments-and-fintech-industry-is-evolving-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Ian Thompson on how the payments and fintech industry is evolving in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Ian Thompson discusses how Q LINK supports the evolution of payment and fintech technology in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson is the Group CEO of Q LINK Holdings and a finance industry veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has held multiple executive roles at major industry names like Client\u00e8le, Hollard, Altrisk, and Sanlam Developing Markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using this experience, Thompson is now leading Q LINK\u2019s evolution as a fintech and payments powerhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He oversees a diversified portfolio across payments, collections, payroll software, and data services, which annually processes over R300 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under his leadership, Q LINK has also expanded its holdings through acquisitions like Nutun Transact and QSURE, and it has invested in several emerging payment technologies that are helping to shape the financial industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Thompson outlines what Q LINK does and how it is building a connected, API-led ecosystem to support payments, collections, payroll, and data services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explains what inspired Q LINK to expand its fintech capabilities and what South African businesses should look for when choosing a payments partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson also unpacks how Q LINK\u2019s integrated fintech solutions help businesses streamline their operations and how direct fintech integration unlocks new levels of value and opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes the interview by sharing what he expects the future payment industry will look like and the trends he\u2019s currently observing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Ian Thompson below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk \u2013 Ian Thompson on digitising payments and fintech innovation in South Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oGxzRenW8y8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Thompson, the Group CEO of Q LINK Holdings, oversees the fintech\u2019s continued evolution into a payments powerhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":832102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832100","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=832100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832196,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832100\/revisions\/832196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}