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 | Margaret Nienaber is Standard Bank's new chief operating officer... read |
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 | | Job Masoko has been appointed as head of operations: risk and compliance at African Bank...read |
|  | | EML Payments welcomes a new managing director and chief executive officer...read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Unlimited's head of brand, Susie Hart says The Unlimited has made a deliberate strategic decision to become brand-led... Read |
| Accounting & Auditing |
 | ISSUED BY CIMA The Internal Audit Agency (IAA), and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the world's largest professional body of management accountants, have entered a two-year partnership... Read |
| Banking |
 | African Bank strengthens business banking division with two new strategic appointments... Read |
 | NATALIE SCOTT AND KYRA SOUTH The South African Reserve Bank's new monetary policy implementation framework is set to see commercial banks lending some of their excess cash reserves to other commercial banks... Read |
| Economy |
 | NYASHA CHINGONO Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation... Read |
 | Economics, academics and property specialists all agree, a Sarb repo-rate hike is on the horizon, and the bets are hedged on it being a 50bps increase... Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING AND ANAIT MIRIDZHANIAN The Reserve Bank has warned that SA's net reserves are falling... Read |
| Financial Services |
 | According to a recent report published by TransUnion, Gen Z consumers are already actively involved in the credit market. There is, however, a notable disparity between the behaviour of Gen Zs in more developed credit markets compared to their emerging market counterparts... Read |
 | TEJ DESAI, ISSUED BY SHAPIRO SHAIK DEFRIES AND ASSOCIATES Time to batten down the hatches and deal with expensive debt as interest rates and inflation take their toll... Read |
| Fintech |
 | Cybersecurity company Kaspersky says it has witnessed an unusual scam where attackers promote fake crypto services on YouTube... Read |
 | ANDREW SPRINGATE With SA's inter-banking payment system on the horizon, are we heading towards a cash-less society? Read |
 | JOE BAGULEY Bitcoin has been disruptive to such a degree that it didn't get the memo regarding climate change... Read |
 | BYRON KAYE AND ALUN JOHN Rising inflation and interest rates this year have made it harder for neobanks in Australia to compete with established lenders... Read |
| Insurance & Actuarial |
 | KATJA HAMILTON The proposed National Health Insurance is not the end of private health, and the model of co-existence is a debate where Medshield is making its voice count... Read |
 | NEESA MOODLEY With life-insurance policies, insurers are often unable to trace beneficiaries who are due a payout because their contact details have not been updated, or the beneficiaries are not aware that they are even listed as a policy beneficiary... Read |
| Markets & Investment |
 | VIRUSHA SUBBAN Trade between China and Africa is growing. The General Administration of Customs of China recently noted that bilateral trade between China and Africa amounted to $254.3bn in 2021, an increase of 35.3% from 2020... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREENCAPE Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) South Africa begins its second phase and launches call for proposals... Read |
 | GEORGE HERMAN No financial advisor has answers for the world's issues, but what they should have answers for is where the financial markets are pricing the risks of the future... Read |
| Taxation & Regulation |
 | Revenue collection at municipalities has now been simplified, streamlined and speeded up thanks to a new bot... Read |
 | The proportion of a retirement fund that asset managers can invest offshore, has been discussed since 2019. National Treasury gazetted these changes to legislation this week... Read |
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 | Africa-focused payments giant, Flutterwave, which has been taken to court on account of money-laundering, says it engages regulatory agencies to stay compliant... Read |
 | African Development Bank's €121m food-production loan, which it has extended to Senegal, is the first approved under the bank's $1.5bn African Emergency Food Production Facility... Read |
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