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REHANA CASSIM
It only takes one look at recent newspaper headlines in South Africa to realise that applications to declare directors delinquent are appearing before the country's courts more and more frequently... read
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MAARTEN ACKERMAN
One of the fastest growing items on government's expense sheet is the country's debt-service costs, with average nominal growth of 13.7% expected between 2020/21 and 2022/23...read
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Although not unexpected, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) pulled no punches on the cold hard reality of South Africa's economic woes...read
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Accounting & Auditing
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ISSUED BY CIMA
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has updated its Code of Ethics to better help finance professionals deal with ethics and independence challenges in the modern digital business world... Read
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LISA WITEPSKI, ISSUED BY SAICA
An exciting partnership between the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Treasury has had far-reaching results, entrenching a culture of accountability in the department while creating opportunities for the province's youth... Read
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Banking
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ISSUED BY SO INTERACTIVE
So Interactive partnered with SABRIC to help educate South Africans on their vulnerability to scams, and more specifically - how they can avoid falling victim to them... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Her focus on how financial services, in particular, tend to connect with females consumers in the wrong way was a stand-out section of Barbara Cador, global head of Kantar's CX+ initiative's opening presentation at the Cape Town version of the Kantar customer experience (CX) advantage 2019 masterclass... Read
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Financial Services
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Here's what you missed from Barbara Cador, global head of Kantar's CX+ initiative, and Mark Molenaar, head of CX for Kantar South Africa at the Kantar customer experience (CX) advantage 2019 masterclass, with a special focus on learnings from the banking industry... Read
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ISSUED BY EDGE GROWTH
The Vumela Fund, managed by Edge Growth Ventures, has announced that it will be forwarding a R25m capital line to ProfitShare Partners (PSP)... Read
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Fintech
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ISSUED BY LEBRAU PRESS
Advertising and promotion in the digital era is becoming a prominent fixture. It might be hard to master, especially in the cryptocurrency sector, as this is still very much a niche that is just now evolving into a mainstream industry... Read
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Insurance & Actuarial
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ISSUED BY INSIGHT SURVEY
Insight Survey's latest SA Short-Term Insurance Industry Landscape Report 2019 carefully unfolds the short-term insurance landscape in South Africa based on the latest information and research... Read
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ISSUED BY MIWAYLIFE
For one month each year, we dust off our pink ribbons and don them on our chest to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness month... Read
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Markets & Investment
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RAINBOW MURRAY & ROBIN PETTITT
Boris Johnson's mantra, ever since becoming prime minister, has been to "get Brexit done". Yet the most striking feature of Brexit has been the inability to deliver... Read
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RAYMOND PARSONS
Moody's decision to reduce the outlook for its credit rating of the South African government from 'stable' to 'negative' is not unexpected in the light of the country's weak economy and deteriorating public finances... Read
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ANDREW NESS
As the world watches the US-China trade spat roll on, it is important to look beyond the headlines and examine the economic reality and progress within emerging markets... Read
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Taxation & Regulation
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ISSUED BY CIMA
The Association has commented on the OECD's Programme of Work to Develop a Consensus Solution to the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy... Read
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GARY FOOKS, GARY SACKS, GRAHAM BOX & SIMON WILLIAMS
In a study on the political activities of the soft drinks industry in the lead up to South Africa introducing a sugar tax, we outlined the complex and systematic way in which big corporations and business associations misrepresented evidence to the country's National Treasury... Read
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HANNO LE ROUX, ISSUED BY MEREDITH HARINGTON
In this article we will provide a brief overview of the most common scenarios resulting in loans between related parties that we tend to encounter and look at what the key tax and legal considerations are... Read
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The National Treasury has called on the public to submit technical tax proposals to be considered for possible inclusion in the 2020 Budget Review... Read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
Women need to access the new economic Pan-Africanism on the continent, said Dr Vera Songwe, UN ECA head... Read
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South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association says local ICT service providers that don't support the latest version of the Internet Protocol are potentially threatening the country's participation in 4IR... Read
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MOHAMMED AMIN
Those who worry that automation is going to upend our lives are forgetting that we already live in a largely automated world... Read
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"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
We know that when it comes to your health information, you need your data on hand, as well as that of the ones you love... Read
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There's been much in the media about the fourth industrial revolution and how it has the potential to change South Africa's economy for the better... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Local representatives from market research and consulting firm IPSOS recently shared a preview of some of the key insights gleaned from its yet to be released global trend survey for 2019... Read
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