Corrie Bakker, head of strategy and business development for Africa at PayU talks about what we can expect in the payment provider front in 2019...
Evan-Lee Courie 21 Jan 2019
Standard Bank was crowned the country's most valuable brand at the inaugural BrandZ Top 30 Most Valuable South African Brands when it launched at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning...
Danette Breitenbach 1 Nov 2018
The 20th Sunday Times Top Brands Awards saw iconic South African brand, Koo, awarded the Consumer Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix. In the business category, another local brand, Discovery Health, was awarded the Business Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix...
Danette Breitenbach 25 Oct 2018
Independent financial advisers (IFAs) believe one of their greatest challenges now and over the next five years is regulations related to the industry...
Nicci Botha 15 Oct 2018
Second quarter 2018 SARB New Mortgage Lending data showed slower year-on-year growth in the value of new mortgage loans granted compared to the previous quarter...
John Loos 28 Sep 2018
Joe Public founders Pepe Marais and Gareth Leck were announced as 2018 Medium Business Entrepreneur of the Year at this year's Entrepreneur of the Year competition sponsored by Sanlam and Business/Partners. This just off the back of being announced Loeries 2018 Agency of the Year...
Jessica Tennant 14 Sep 2018
Vuca - the acronym for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - is the new normal within the South African political context, said policy specialist, Theo Venter...
Nicci Botha 12 Sep 2018
Economist, Dr Roelof Botha is quite adamant that South Africa is not in a recession despite what Stats SA said...
Nicci Botha 10 Sep 2018
Karen Nadasen, CEO of PayU South Africa, is regularly described as one of South Africa's most inspiring women in tech, nominated for IT Personality of the Year 2017...
Evan-Lee Courie 30 Aug 2018
An announcement you may have missed from Cannes Lions: There's a new cryptocurrency soon to be launched, but it won't be taking its name from any memes or computer jargon. Instead, it'll be launched by Senegalese musician Akon...
Andy Walker 28 Jun 2018
Social media is an excellent marketing tool, but in the wrong hands, it can also be severely damaging...
linda graham 20 Jun 2018
Ryan Marx, Jax du Plessis and Duane du Plessis know all about price comparison, having been the team behind pan-African platform CompareGuru...
Tom Jackson 18 Jun 2018
To the older generations, millennials are an enigma. They are the first true digital natives, and in South Africa they are also the first generation to bear the fruits of democracy and empowerment...
Nicci Botha 4 Jun 2018
If there was a theme song for public relations in general and reputation management in particular, it should be the Marilyn Monroe and Frankie Vaughn duet Specialisation from her under-appreciated 1960 movie Let's make love...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 25 May 2018
More and more, consumers in sub-Saharan Africa are looking beyond their borders to get the products and services they need...
Efi Dahan 12 Jan 2018
Since blockchain technology emerged into the financial services industry, there has been no end to the transformations that it has made to our financial infrastructure...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 8 Dec 2017
Business of Design (BoD) is back with a speaker lineup of note. The two-day seminar is held annually in Cape Town and Johannesburg during October and doesn't just focus on design in itself but has a much broader vision for the field in all areas of business...
Jessica Tennant 6 Oct 2017
The recent launch of the Mastercard SpendingPulse Report is a first for South Africa. The Report is an early indicator of consumer spending trends...
Danette Breitenbach 21 Sep 2017
Unlocking women's earning potential in SA, and in neighboring African countries, could entirely transform the economic and political landscape of the nation, but it won't be easy...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 21 Sep 2017
According to a recent study conducted by Mastercard, over 50% of the South African population still transact using cash on a daily basis...
Simeon Tassev 1 Aug 2017
Market conduct regulations are coming to a place near you soon. Do you know how the changes could impact your advisory business?
Richard Rattue 25 Jul 2017
Allan Gray today announced its appointment of King James the Second (II) shortly after leaving its current agency, Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town...
Jessica Tennant 21 Jun 2017
Have a cash deficit you need to fill? Bill collectors are infamous for their lack of patience, so it's best to have a game plan in place when you find yourself short before payday...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 19 Jun 2017
Part of building a financially successful business requires going into debt. It's important for small businesses to take out loans so they can have access to the startup capital they need...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 29 Apr 2017
There are many ways to gather additional capital. Many business owners eventually settle on seeking a small business loan, but there are multiple considerations you'll need to bear in mind before going that route...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 11 Apr 2017
South African mobile payments startup Peach Payments has partnered secure payments solution Callpay to provide automated electronic fund transfers...
Tom Jackson 1 Mar 2017
I recently met with Catharina Eklof and Victor de Koc from Mastercard to discuss some of the emerging trends in merchant payments...
Jessica Tennant 27 Jan 2017
Technology touches just about every aspect of our lives. Here are some of what FNB's chief information officer, Peter Alkema predicts for 2017.
Peter Alkema 11 Jan 2017
Once upon a time, banks were entrusted to look after your money, but technology and a lack of trust has changed all that...
Danette Breitenbach 9 Jan 2017
