08/16/2018
Nedbank: The quiet man of SA banking
CEO Mike Brown says there have been green shoots, notably in an increased market share in vehicle finance
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08/16/2018
South Africa's Standard Bank H1 profit up 5 percent
Standard Bank has fared relatively better thanks to its extensive operations elsewhere on the continent
08/16/2018
Ghana's finance minister makes fresh statements on collapsed indigenous banks in the country
According to him, the amount being used to save the banking sector could easily have gone into direct government policies like maternal health care or free Senior High School which would have been of direct benefit to the populace.
08/15/2018
South Africa’s Ramaphosa proposes new sovereign wealth fund: party officials
South Africa does not have significant energy deposits but has a large, albeit struggling, mining industry.
08/14/2018
S. African ruling party denies making plan to rescue troubled bank
A meeting had been held between the ANC's Top Six officials and the party's Limpopo leadership to discuss possible ways to save the troubled bank, the report said.
08/13/2018
African Regulators Taking ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach on Cryptocurrency: Ecobank Report
The other 15 countries lay somewhere in the middle, largely declining to regulate them directly, stating that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fall under a legal gray area and warning investors against investing in them.
08/13/2018
How green is Africa’s future in reality?
Africa remains a continent subject to resource demands and even more so for a suite of new technologies
08/12/2018
China’s growing footprint in Africa
China’s President Xi Jinping appears to have made Africa one of the top priorities of his foreign policy.
08/12/2018
Governments Around The World Must Rethink Their Structure In The Face of Disruption
Rising Citizen Expectations, Rapid Technological Change, and Increasing Complexity Are Putting Major Pressure on Government—and Making the Traditional Hierarchical Public-Sector Structure Dangerously Outdated
08/10/2018
Impact investing – not just a feel-good story by Jacolene Otto
In essence, impact investing is powered by investors wanting to effect positive and sustainable change in developing societies and their environment.
08/10/2018
Nigeria: Islamic Finance In Nigeria: An Overview Of The Rules Governing The Listing Of Sukuk On The Nigerian
The question arises as to how Islamic finance institutions expect to make profit from non-interest bearing financing.
08/09/2018
Mauritius – an evolving FinTech hub by Graham Patrick and Miro Metodiev
In recent years, Mauritius has gained a growing global reputation as the preferred gateway for investment into (and out of) Africa.
08/09/2018
HSBC: Earth is running out of the resources to sustain life
A group of analysts at HSBC said in a note that cited research from the Global Footprint Network (GFN) that the world spent its entire natural resource budget for the year by August 1
08/08/2018
Mike Schussler warns SA about impact of confiscation
Schussler said businessmen and investors, including foreign investors, did not know what was meant by it and South Africa was putting up another barrier to investors when it should be bringing down these barriers.
08/07/2018
Nigeria lags in retail banking as only 2% can access credit facilities
Experts also advise that Nigeria adapts new global trends in credit scoring and to embrace the mandatory IFRS 9 reporting system in order to grow its retail banking market to be on par with other nations.
08/06/2018
Africa’s challenger banks are set to surge ahead
Could spark a dramatic change in the established order.
08/03/2018
South African Banks Set to Show How Malaise Is Gripping Economy
“We have seen this for a few years now and most of the banks have been good on costs, but cost growth below inflation rates is not sustainable,”
08/03/2018
Luxury Cape Town property growth has halved in the past year – but the market is showing signs of recovery
The three cities with double-digit growth were Guangzhou, China (which grew by 11.9%), Singapore (up 11.5%) and Madrid, Spain (up 10.3%).
08/02/2018
What you need to study to become a billionaire in South Africa
It also focused on what these billionaires studied, and the companies that helped drive their wealth
08/02/2018
Expect South Africa to get ‘back on track’ after the 2019 elections: analysts
Business confidence is still lagging, but consumer fundamentals are not as bad as people may think