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| With the help of a WhatsApp chatbot, Absa Life funeral policyholders can now access basic policy information at any time of the day or night... read |
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| ROBYN BERGER, THEUNIS CLAASSEN AND CATHERINE ROBSON The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was brokered by the African Union (AU) and adopted by 44 of its 55 member states on 21 March 2018. By February 2019, all AU countries, save for Eritrea, had become signatories to the AfCFTA, which came into force on 30 May 2019...read |
| | Nedbank has unveiled its new tap-on-phone functionality that allows all merchants and business owners to convert their mobile phones into payment acceptance devices...read |
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| | | OLGA ARARA-KIMANI Financial leaders are at a tipping point. The choices they are making today will become the bedrock of the industry for years to come... Read |
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| MAARTEN ACKERMAN The market expected the economy to shrink by 3.8% over the first quarter so the -2.0% print for Q1 2020 GDP might be slightly better than anticipated, but it almost means nothing... Read |
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| KEDIBONE DIKOKWE South Africa is known globally for having an efficiently run, well-regulated and stable financial services industry. And the enterprise tasked with regulating this robust sector, the FSB, was largely successful - which begs the question: why change this regulator to the FSCA in 2018? Read |
| VELENKOSINI MATSEBULA & DEREK YU An analysis of financial inclusion in South Africa shows that affordability limits poor households' access to formal financial services... Read |
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| JOHN LOMBELA While money provides a sense of security, and helps in realising goals, how we acquire money, and in what form, is changing... Read |
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| SIZWE MHLONGO I Long before the Covid-19 induced lockdown, understanding the customers' behaviour has been key to building the technology solutions and products of the future.. Read |
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| One of the most significant backbones of Ghana's economic and social development for a very long time has been small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs)... Read |
| Drones are being successfully deployed to support medical and humanitarian projects across Africa, but for greater, more sustainable impact, they will need to be fully integrated into supply chains within an enabling regulatory environment... Read |
| HAILAY GESESEW The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently noted that "researchers are working at break-neck speed" to understand SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease (Covid-19)... Read |
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| NATASHA BOLOGNESI Regular cleaning with standard household products is sufficient. Read |
| ANDREW ROBINSON We used to work in offices. For the past few months we've worked at home. Until fairly recently, those were really the only two options that most office workers had... Read |
| As part of its partnership with Lionesses of Africa, the all-female business network in Africa, Volkswagen has introduced 'The Lionesses Den' and is calling on female-owned businesses in South Africa to share a two-minute pitch... Read |
| E-commerce is providing a ray of hope for the local economy with transactions hitting a record high in May and June... Read |
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