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Bernard Agulhas, CEO: Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors
Clock is ticking on audit freedoms
The crisis of confidence sparked by KPMG's engagements with Gupta-owned companies could speed up auditing regulations... read
Mervyn King
Long live the King
[Nicci Botha] Despite the King code, many firms are having their ethics questioned as the Gupta email saga unfolds... read

WOMEN'S MONTH
#WomensMonth: Women need to stand together in driving the gender equality agenda
#WomensMonth: Women need to stand together in driving the gender equality agenda

Sindy Peters

Meet Nana Madikane, a qualified chartered accountant with over 15 years' experience and a partner at PwC South Africa... read
Mellony Ramalho, African Bank's group executive: sales, branch network
#WomensMonth: Investing in women will make a difference
Africa Bank's Mellony Ramalho believes young women, need to be shown that there are possibilities and taught that through hard work they too can succeed... read
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Banking
Malusi Gigaba, minister of finance
Brics bank will ignite growth in SA, says Gigaba
As Brics countries celebrated the launch of the African regional centre of the New Development Bank, South African taxpayers can expect to contribute $10bn over a seven-year period... read
Education & Training
Ithala supports ever-growing female talent pool
Ithala supports ever-growing female talent pool

Issued by Ithala Development Finance Corporation

Ithala Development Finance Corporation believes equal opportunities for women in the workplace will result in greater economic growth - and is leading by example... read
Disruptive fintech degree launches at UCT
Disruptive fintech degree launches at UCT
A new degree, Master of Data Science with a specialisation in Financial Technology (fintech), which combines finance, technology and entrepreneurship is set to disrupt the financial services industry... read
Fintech
Contactless to account for over 50% of POS transactions globally by 2022
Contactless to account for over 50% of POS transactions globally by 2022
More than half (53%) of global transactions at POS (Point of Sale) will be contactless within five years, compared to just 15% this year... read
Sneha Shah, MD of Thomson Reuters Africa
#GIL2017: How global volatility can benefit Africa

Nicci Botha

Not so long ago, people would have scoffed at the notion that the UK would be pulling out of the EU or that Donald Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office... read
Australia to regulate virtual currency exchanges like Bitcoin
Australia to regulate virtual currency exchanges like Bitcoin
Australia is set to regulate virtual currency exchanges such as Bitcoin and strengthen the powers of its financial intelligence agency... read
Insurance & Actuarial
Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management
Accurate data is the key to a viable insurance sector

Gary Allemann

For insurers to remain competitive and viable, they require accurate data to move their business forward into the digital age... read
Markets & Investment
How to trade currency pairs on economic data releases
How to trade currency pairs on economic data releases

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

South Africans looking to invest their funds abroad will be able to purchase less per unit ZAR over time. But what determines how a currency pair is going to move?... read
How South Africans feel about property in 2017
How South Africans feel about property in 2017

Issued by Private Property

A survey by ABSA has revealed how South Africans feel about buying, selling, investing, renting and renovating property, as well as property market conditions in general... read
Porto do Caio, Angola's new deepwater port
Angola's investment in non-oil sectors starts to pay off

Miguel Damião Gago

With forecasts of rising commodity prices, investors must now bear in mind that we are moving towards a sellers' market... read
10 of the most expensive houses in South Africa
10 of the most expensive houses in South Africa

Tahir Desai, Issued by Private Property

A recent study by property group Seeff, based on data from Lightstone and Propstats for the period 2011/2 to 2016/7, revealed that Cape Town is home to nine of the ten richest suburbs in South Africa... read

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Taxation & Regulation
Sars amnesty for hidden assets a flop
Sars amnesty for hidden assets a flop
The tax amnesty for undeclared foreign assets, which the government had hoped would yield billions of rand in additional revenue, has been a flop... read
Banks get more power to block accounts
Banks get more power to block accounts

Rudi Katzke

There has been an expansion of banks' power to hold funds on suspicion of a tax offence, as proposed in the 2017 draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill... read
Business
Eskom defends lifting suspension on senior managers
Eskom defends lifting suspension on senior managers
Eskom has been quick to defend the reinstatement of two senior managers just a couple of days after their suspension... read
Jobs offered
New events to diarise
Leadership Perspectives from the Front Line - 24 Aug 2017, Johannesburg
Leadership Perspectives from the Front Line. SA's most comprehensive leadership book! By Dr Andrew J.Johnson, Dr Theo H.Veldsmann & Nadiem Soloman. Read more >>




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