It is no secret that financial advice is at a crossroads, with the industry facing several challenges. At the centre of these changes are the financial advisors and their understanding of their evolving roles in the new consumer landscape...
Henry van Deventer 20 Feb 2020
Credit plays an important role in helping small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) start, run, grow and sustain their businesses...
Valentine Jingura 19 Feb 2020
Today, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) announced that 2,024 of the 3,560 candidates who wrote the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) evaluation in November 2019, successfully met the assessment's requirements...
SAICA 14 Feb 2020
SAICA, in collaboration with One Young World (OYW) and Chartered Accountants Worldwide (CAW), launched Finance and Business (FinBiz) 2030 in Johannesburg, South Africa on 6 February 2020 at Investec...
Kulani Chauke, SAICA 14 Feb 2020
Nedbank recently financed South Africa's first commercial floating solar farm. This innovative development was installed at Marlenique farm near Simondium, Paarl...
Nedbank Business Banking 12 Feb 2020
Rapid expansion of digital channels, exploding growth in the number and types of devices, and reduced customer face time are making mainstream financial service providers and newer fintech companies vulnerable to online fraudulent activities...
11 Feb 2020
As we go through the traditional Janu-worry season, fretting about how to pay off our December bills, let's take a step back and look at the big picture...
Compiled by FICO Head of C&R Bruce Curry and C&R experts at FICO, Britespark Communications 11 Feb 2020
Solvency, a black-owned insurance solution, launched in January 2020 and is set to disrupt the short-term insurance industry in South Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 6 Feb 2020
Ethics is considered three times more important to company trust than competence, according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer...
5 Feb 2020
The Competition Tribunal has approved the takeover of the Edcon Store Card debtors book by consumer finance business RCS...
5 Feb 2020
Property finance expert Timothy Akinnusi has launched a digital home loan platform that aims to change the slow and cumbersome traditional home loan application process...
28 Jan 2020
A legal battle between Old Mutual, the South African-based pan-African investment, savings and insurance group, and its chief executive officer Peter Moyo has dominated news headlines in the country for the past eight months...
Rehana Cassim 27 Jan 2020
Businesses - especially growing, smaller ones - need to consider what it means to have accessible cash and how to use it to grow in both the short and long term...
Sean Jackson, Orange Ink 20 Jan 2020
Modern CFOs are required not only to act as the traditional "bean counters" but strategic organisational leaders too...
Perfect Word 16 Jan 2020
During the "off season" I was able to catch up on some reading. I have long been a follower of Garry Kasparov (erstwhile chess world champion and Russian grandmaster) and have always found his views and insights within and outside of the chess fraternity unambiguous and enlightening...
Jason Liddle 14 Jan 2020
The fact that millions of debt-stressed consumers saw fit to splurge millions on Black Friday and Cyber Monday shows clearly that the message that the South African economy is in crisis has not yet sunk in, says economist Dawie Roodt, chief economist of the Efficient Group...
30 Dec 2019
According to the latest quarterly debt report from DebtBusters, South African consumers' debt, compared to what they earn, has increased greatly over the past four years...
20 Dec 2019
One of the foremost thought-leaders within the financial services industry has cautioned that to sustainably address the challenges posed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the sector needs to find innovative ways to transfer knowledge and skills...
Graduate Institute of Financial Sciences 19 Dec 2019
Pure Hearts Funeral Catering Services Policies plans to shake up South Africa's funeral insurance market, our desire is to help you during one of the most difficult times in your life...
Pure Hearts Funeral Catering 19 Dec 2019
Pure Hearts Funeral Catering Services provides a unique mixture of in-depth impact and smoothness in funerals...
Pure Hearts Funeral Catering 19 Dec 2019
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views...
17 Dec 2019
Nine businesses are joining the Venture Exploitation Programme, the second phase of the Solution Space e-Track Programme, aimed at accelerating their ventures...
UCT Graduate School of Business 3 Dec 2019
East Africa attracts millions of tourists every year. Over the past 10 years, its earnings from tourism have doubled. Compared to the rest of Africa, the region is experiencing healthy economic growth. This makes it a promising investment destination...
Mercy Muendo 3 Dec 2019
Are new customers passing you by while your head is stuck in admin? This single software suite can free up admin time so you can grow your business...
Microsoft 2 Dec 2019
Leaders from multilateral development banks, financial institutions and the private sector called on peers to dispel myths about women being too "high risk" for financing...
29 Nov 2019
At the recent inaugural session of the Global Gender Summit, hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the organisation's president, Akinwumi Adesina, called for greater access to finance for African women...
29 Nov 2019
The three top elements that South Africans want from their financial and banking service providers are value-added advice and terms, a blend of digital and physical services, as well as enhanced ecosystems...
26 Nov 2019
South Africa has an estimated 120,000 registered non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and anywhere between 50,000 and 70,000 unregistered bodies. The constant battle for financial survival...
25 Nov 2019
Unfortunately, most South Africans tend to insure the wrong things. Each of us face four major risks in life: temporary injury or illness, permanent disability, critical illness and death. What many fail to realise is...
FMI Insurance 22 Nov 2019
Finance Trends 2020
