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VAUGHAN ALEXANDER
Africa is still home to a large unbanked population. Eighty percent of adults in sub-Saharan Africa don't use any formal or informal banking facilities, and only 5% of adults have a credit card... read
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Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has gazetted municipal cost containment regulations, which National Treasury says are aimed at ensuring that the resources of municipalities and municipal entities are used effectively, efficiently and economically...read
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ISSUED BY SAICA
The new Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) new website, with electronic registration, claims and submission of returns on one system, has its fair share of teething problems...read
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Youth Month
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When asking millennials about where they see themselves career-wise, many will reveal their dream of owning their own businesses... Read
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This June, a historic aviation challenge will take place as 20 South African teenagers embark on a Cape to Cairo - and back - excursion in a self-assembled Sling-4 aircraft that uses ordinary motor fuel and was built in only three weeks. Read
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Accounting & Auditing
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AVIKA RAMDHANI
Accountants operate in an increasingly technologically-driven environment, but are still applying 2005 skills in a 2020 environment... Read
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ISSUED BY CIMA
Canadian finance leader Amal Ratnayake FCMA, CGMA has been named 86th President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the highest volunteer post of the world's leading professional body for management accountants... Read
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Banking
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Vacancies at the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) formed the central theme of a meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa and the board of the bank... Read
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Financial Services
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ISSUED BY LEXISNEXIS
Despite the fact that contributing towards a retirement fund is compulsory for many employees in the private sector, there was a concerning decline in total contribution towards retirement funds recorded in 2018... Read
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Fintech
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Slipztream, an innovative expense claim app created and self-funded by former professional rugby player, Dylan Des Fountain and his entrepreneur wife, Joy Des Fountain, was recently launched... Read
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Insurance & Actuarial
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Mining these cryptocurrencies usually requires expensive computers, servers and other equipment. It is important for people to note many insurers do not insure this equipment due to the unregulated nature of crypto mining... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Publicis Machine recently received three honourable mentions at the global Pearl Impact Awards in New York for their work on the Sanlam Reality account. We asked chief content officer Sarah Browning-de Villiers what it takes to succeed in the content marketing space... Read
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Markets & Investment
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SEAN GOSSEL
South Africa's economy is in dire straits. Unemployment has reached a 15-year high of 27.6%. And in the first quarter of this year GDP growth dropped by 3.2%. That's the biggest quarterly drop in a decade... Read
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Private equity's value proposition has shifted over the years from a focus on financial engineering, to the creation of operational value in investee companies... Read
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Taxation & Regulation
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CHRISTOPHER MURRER AND DEAN JOFFE
During a speech at Consenus 2019, Sigal Mandelker, the US Treasury's Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, reiterated the projection that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will adopt international standards for cryptocurrency-based services in June 2019... Read
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HiPipo is the organiser of the annual Digital Impact Awards Africa which will take place on 20 September 2019 at the Kampala Serena, Uganda... Read
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"To integrate Africa, bring down the walls," African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina urged at the 2019 AfDB Annual Meetings Open in Malabo... Read
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ANDREW SKIPPER
Africa can take advantage of the modern 'Scramble for Africa' as Brexit and the ratification of AfCFTA come into play... Read
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A new Kaspersky survey uncovers the rise of 'Can you just' and the negative impact it's having on the family unit... Read
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SAITEX - 23 Jun 2019 to 25 Jun 2019, Johannesburg One of Africa's largest and most well-established trade exhibitions, SAITEX has served as the key annual product sourcing opportunity for the entire continent's retail and trade industry for over 25 years. Read more >> |
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