{
  "id": 8115263,
  "title": "Why businesses need to rethink how they fund technology",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/why-businesses-need-to-rethink-how-they-fund-technology",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-17T22:01:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Moneyweb",
    "slug": "moneyweb",
    "url": "https://www.moneyweb.co.za/in-depth/merchant-west/why-businesses-need-to-rethink-how-they-fund-technology/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Should companies own the technology they use? Shane van der Merwe, head of technology finance at Merchant West, considers the trade-offs between ownership, capital deployment and flexibility in a fast-changing technology landscape.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}