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 | | Wall Street, the historic headquarters of some of the largest US brokerages and investment banks, however, as Africans we can recreate this and build our own "Wall Street" on the African continent...read |
|  | BONGEKA NODADA, ISSUED BY SAICA Financial statements are a mechanism that can be used to hold management accountable for the resources entrusted to it by shareholders, writes Bongeka Nodada, Saica project director: financial reporting...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM There's never been a better time to rewrite the future or a better time to come on board to sponsor BizTrends... Read |
| Banking |
 | The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant economic stresses and strained operating environment reflect in the major banks' results ending June 2020. Read |
| Economy |
 | The South African economy contracted by a staggering 51% in Quarter 2 of 2020, as the country reeled from the consequences of the Covid-19 enforced lockdown... Read |
 | The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) is expected to hold the repo rate next week, despite over a third (36%) of economists on Finder's repo rate panel calling for a rate cut. Read |
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 | Naspers and Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) have sold their stakes in the South Africa-founded cryptocurrency exchange, Luno... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY CAPITAL LEGACY MyCover is life cover that has been designed as an extender benefit to the core product, the Legacy Protection Plan that accompanies your will to meet your financial estate planning needs, covering the costs of executor, conveyance and testamentary trust fees as well as other upfront and monthly expenses that arise when you pass away... Read |
| Markets & Investment |
 | Even as Covid-19 halted the longest economic expansion on record and plunged the world into deep recession, South African investors expect to make an average annual total return of 12.67% - almost 2% higher than the global average predicted returns of 10.9%... Read |
| Taxation & Regulation |
 | VIRUSHA SUBBAN AND PRENISHA GOVENDER The Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Bill 2020 seeks to alleviate cash flow burdens on taxpayers, which may arise as a result of Covid-19 restrictions implemented under the Disaster Management Act... Read |
 | A voluntary organisation, the South African Association of Treasury Advisors (SAATA), was recently launched to represent both big and small treasury advisors... Read |
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 | With a region as large and as vast as Africa, it is difficult to imagine a fully connected continent where every individual across all demographics, and every business across all sectors can harness the power of cloud computing... Read |
 | MARIA ODLAND & JUSTINE INA DAVIES Cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, are major causes of death and disability globally. Read |
 | After identifying a need for medical consumables and disposables to difficult-to-deliver regions and rural communities across Africa, Tony McPherson launched McPherson Trading, a tender based procurement consultancy to help fill this gap... Read |
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 | JOHN LOOS Ever since the Covid-19 hard lockdowns began in all seriousness across the world earlier this year, the world has been abuzz with talk of how the crisis has changed the world... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE After losing her job as a graphic designer at an events company at the start of the nationwide lockdown, Nelia Kennedy decided it was time to launch Kunz... Read |
 | DANIEL LOTTER Right now, there's a word that's keeping many South African business executives awake at night - and it's not just Covid-19... Read |
 | INA SKOSANA This week the University of Oxford and Astra Zeneca temporarily postponed further vaccination in clinical trials of the Covid-19 candidate vaccine, AZD1222, after one of the participants fell ill... Read |
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