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CHRISTINE RODRIGUES
What conduct constitutes financial advice and what would amount to negligent financial advice? read
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GRAEME PALMER
The age-old question of whether moneys 'received' by the taxpayer fall within the meaning of gross income was recently addressed by the Tax Court in A Company v CSAR (IT24510).read
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What's happening in the world can impact the economic value chain. So, it's something successful long-term investors spend a lot of time thinking about...read
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Africa Month
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ONYI NWANERI
Africa's youth are the future of the continent and the philosophical principle of ubuntu can ensure a brighter tomorrow... Read
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MORNE VAN DER MERWE AND WILDU DU PLESSIS
Baker McKenzie lawyers based in Africa, alongside the firm's global Africa specialists, as well as lawyers from our African Relationship Firms from across the continent, share their knowledge about what investors should consider when transacting in Africa... Read
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Given its colonial past, Africa has not had the opportunity to engage with the positive aspects or benefits of capitalism, having been integrated into the international economy in a position of subservience... Read
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Accounting & Auditing
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ISSUED BY CIMA
40% of transactional accounting work is expected to be automated by 2020 and predicted to touch 230 million workers (9% of the global workforce)... Read
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Banking
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BARDIEN PIENAAR
In their drive to be digitally relevant and hold market share, both traditional and digital banks risk losing customers through the resultant reduced human interaction... Read
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Financial Services
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WILDU DU PLESSIS, RUI LOPES AND MATTHEW TOUT
South Africa's financial services sector has, in recent times, felt the harsh effect of a gradual depreciation in the value of the rand, which has been attributed to, amongst other things, a lethargic economy... Read
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Fintech
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JONAS NILSSON
Biometric authentication has come a long way in recent years. Launched in the first Android smartphone almost five years ago, fingerprint touch sensors have quickly overtaken PIN as consumers' preferred authentication method. Read
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Markets & Investment
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South Africa has one of the largest private pension asset investments globally, and the ANC's manifesto statement that they want to "investigate the introduction of prescribed assets on financial institutions' funds to unlock resources for investments in social and economic development," has rattled investors... Read
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GUY FLETCHER
Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, describes his epiphany when he discovered the "Holy Grail of investing" as something akin to what Einstein must have felt when he discovered E=mc2... Read
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Taxation & Regulation
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JEROME BRINK
Climate change and global warming are issues that have long been debated. Predictions as far back as 1982 regarding increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are proving true... Read
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VINCENT O ONYWERA
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge is undoubtedly the greatest marathoner of the modern age. He has won 11 of the 12 marathons he has competed in... Read
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As the world's second largest and second most-populous continent, it's evident that broadband and mobile connectivity growth has had a dynamic impact on Africa... Read
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Where a person lives can drastically limit their access to trauma care... Read
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JANE STEVENSON
Take a moment and write down the top three things that you should be doing in your position to bring value to your business... Read
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OLIVIA DIAZ
Over these years, everything seems to have changed to a great extent even the way we use smart devices... Read
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TANYA KNOWLES
Many well-known experts in their fields have made predictions over the years that have proved to be spectacularly wrong... Read
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