08/22/2019
The 16th annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards were announced at a gala dinner in Johannesburg on 15 August, attended by business and government leaders, VIPs and members of the media.
08/22/2019
“This issue of garnishee order is not true. It is a way of carrying money with people and sharing for election. It is a way of taking away N28b. It does not exist,”
08/21/2019
We could look at where those people find themselves, today, and whether, thanks to Google searches, those people are now hiding in shadows of their own making while they wait for the reputational dust to settle, hoping that someone will forget what they d
08/21/2019
The annual forum—19th East African Banking School—which seeks to address emerging challenges and opportunities for fintech was organised by bankers of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
08/20/2019
Tanzanian President John Magufuli officially took over as Chair of the 16-nation regional economic integration body, from Namibian President Dr Hage Geingob at the summit attended by 16 heads of state and government.
08/20/2019
In countries rich in crude oil such as Nigeria and South Africa, the development of natural resources has led their economic growth.
08/19/2019
Many have chosen to fight their battles quietly, but for a few, their battles with the state have spilled over into public fora.
08/19/2019
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the AfDB, said the bank could review its economic growth projection for Africa - of 4% in 2019 and 4.1% in 2020 - if global external shocks accelerate.
08/19/2019
It is important for organisations to be run responsibly and managed effectively for long-term prosperity, to create sustainable value for shareholders, stakeholders and the nation.
08/16/2019
The property was bought without a mortgage via an anonymous company registered in an offshore tax haven
08/15/2019
The website calculates the data from publicly available Bitcoin information but the data is a) not really reliable b) doesn’t really tell the whole story, and c) shouldn’t be used to draw such extreme conclusions. Here’s why.
08/15/2019
The "sustainability" issue is becoming a bigger selling point for lab-grown diamonds.
08/14/2019
This is in stark contrast to the latest data released recently from ‘Statistics South Africa' which showed that out of the 12.5 million people working in the financial services sector worryingly only 33% are women.
08/14/2019
The prices of basics like sugar and cooking oil have jumped by 200 per cent in June, according to official statistics.
08/14/2019
The low-risk nature of trade finance versus other asset classes was confirmed once more in the recently published 2018 version of the International Chamber of Commerce Banking Commission’s trade register report.
08/13/2019
Over just the last few months alone, hackers and cyberthieves managed to steal roughly $160 million in assorted crypto funds
08/13/2019
Dip in venture capital funding, but early stage companies are tackling a variety of adviser challenges
08/13/2019
The press ‘displayed an overt partisan bias and clear misunderstanding of the facts’
08/12/2019
The government has been eyeing overhauls to the financial sector, along with other sectors, since Abiy Ahmed’s appointment as prime minister.
08/12/2019
What emerges from this year’s World Wealth Report, published on July 9, is clearly the picture of a fertile ground for an accelerated innovation process, that requires two other dimensions to be disrupted: Strategy and Management Culture.