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2015 Raging Bull Awards winners revealed
The 2015 Raging Bull Awards winners were recently announced with Coronation scooping top SA management company... read more>>



Finance
Repo rate to remain unchanged: Reserve Bank
The repo rate is to remain unchanged at 5.75%, Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Thursday, 29 January... read more>>
Camargue acquires Synergy XOL
Camargue Underwriting Managers has acquired UMA, Synergy XOL (Pty) Limited, following the passing of the company's managing director, Peter Hodgson in July 2014. The acquisition is effective 1 January 2015... read more>>
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'Valuable business to be done in Africa'
Africa is considered a potentially lucrative market for many industries and a number of South African companies have been positioning themselves to offer products and services to the rest of Africa... read more>>
Accounting & Auditing
Atterbury lands deal to develop PwC Tower
Atterbury Property will develop a R1.5bn high-rise building, The PwC Tower, comprising 40,000m² of modern offices for the new head office of PwC at Waterfall City in Midrand... read more>>
Financial Services
FNB keeps prime lending rate unchanged
Following the decision taken by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to leave the repo rate unchanged at 5.75%, FNB has announced that it will maintain its prime lending rate at 9.25%... read more>>
Brotchie appointed as MD of Glacier International
Glacier by Sanlam has announced the appointment of Andrew Brotchie as MD of Glacier International with effect from January 2015... read more>>
Markets & Investment
African equity capital markets active in 2014
According to a report by PwC, 2014 saw the highest level of activity in African equity capital markets (ECM) over the previous five years, and a significant increase in both transaction volume and capital raised during 2014 compared to the prior year... read more>>
Homeowner environments positive under interest rate growth
While generally anticipated by commentators in the market, the decision by the Monetary Policy Committee meeting to hold the repo rate steady at 5.75% is most welcome... read more>>
CFA expects 2% growth in global economy
According to the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Institute 2015 Global Market Sentiment Survey (GMSS), investment professionals worldwide expect the global economy to grow an average of just 2% in 2015... read more>>
Africa CEO Forum to focus on new economic environment
The official theme of the 2015 Africa CEO Forum, which will take place on 16 and 17 March in Geneva, Switzerland, is 'Africa's new economic environment'... read more>>
SA ready for trading of carbon offsets
Promethium Carbon recently demonstrated the market readiness for the trading of carbon offsets in South Africa on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)... read more>>
Reserve Bank retains repo rate at 5.75%
The decision by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank to retain the repo rate at 5.75% (base home loan rate of 9.25%) is a positive start to the year for the property market, says Seeff Chairman, Samuel Seeff... read more>>
Taxation & Regulation
High-income earners can expect significant tax increases
High net worth South Africans should brace themselves for significant tax increases across the board when Finance Minister, Nhlanhla Nene, announces the Budget for the new tax year on 25 February... read more>>
SARS confirms CCMA resolution
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has confirmed that an unfair labour practice involving suspended deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay has been resolved... read more>>
China government agency 'bombs' Alibaba over management
SHANGHAI, CHINA: A powerful Chinese regulator on Wednesday blasted e-commerce giant Alibaba for allowing "illegal" actions on its multi-billion-dollar online shopping platform... read more>>
International
France looking at taxing Netflix, Amazon to fund film and TV sector
PARIS, FRANCE: France is looking to decide this year on how it might tax US online giants Google, Amazon and Netflix to help fund its heavily subsidised film and television sector in response to changes brought on by internet video streaming... read more>>
India says it will not appeal Vodafone tax ruling
NEW DELHI, INDIA: India's government will not appeal a court verdict favouring British mobile giant Vodafone in a multimillion-dollar tax suit, in a move aimed at winning back investor confidence... read more>>
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Government news
Minister challenges unions on minimum wage issue
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has urged organised labour to be clear on the common ground for the framework of a national minimum wage... read more>>
Buy on the fly... SAA installs new system
SAA will this week become the first airline globally to install the SatAuth (Satellite Authorisation System), which will allow for secure credit card transactions anywhere in the skies... read more>>
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