02/13/2014
South African Banks Dominate Africa’s Top 10 List
South Africa’s banks dominated last year’s top 10 list of Africa’s largest private banks by assets under management, making a total of $70.2 billion in all.
02/13/2014
According to the statement, the world’s biggest banks are ranked by their brand value with the results reflecting industry trends and indicating future developments.
02/12/2014
TORQUE: Banks laughing all way to the bank
The only conclusions must be two-fold: first, that they are comfortable applying the identical interest rate above the repo rate imposed by the Reserve Bank and, second, that there aren’t enough of them around to impel competition.
02/11/2014
Coutts Insights: Emerging-market crisis is just talk
Many people are suggesting that the recent volatility in emerging markets will trigger a repeat of the 1994 or 1998 crises. We don’t think this is the case. This is not an emerging world in huge debt to the rest of the world – and in fact some
02/11/2014
The objective of the popular ranking, according to the report, is to gain insight into which individuals and brands the public recognize as effective social media advocates and practitioners.
02/10/2014
Assets managed around the world will rise from $63.9 trillion today to $101.7 trillion in just six years, led by growing riches in emerging markets and the expansion of sovereign funds
02/10/2014
The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.
02/07/2014
Zimbabwe: More currencies won’t revive economy
THE addition of several currencies, to those already in use — United States dollars, South Africa rand and others — by the Reserve Bank last week, though welcome, will not do much to alleviate the economic crisis the country is facing, analyst
02/07/2014
Those targeting markets in Africa and the Middle East were able to post strong returns during the month, picking up where they left off after an excellent 2013.
02/05/2014
This feeds into views shared by Dave Foord of Foord Asset Management. For him the most valued quality in an asset manager is independent thought. The Foord Equity Fund and Foord Balanced Fund, both of which he co-manages, are both in the top five of their
02/05/2014
Global financial markets have been very nervous since mid of January.
02/04/2014
Attention being paid by senior management to money laundering challenges is at an all time high according to findings from a new KPMG International report.
02/04/2014
While there are undoubtedly strains in some emerging markets, to read the headlines would suggest there was a pending meltdown.
02/03/2014
East Africa's progress in becoming an oil and gas hub will put economic growth on a stronger footing this year while favourable weather supports its agricultural sector
02/03/2014
According to experts, Nigeria’s catch up to South Africa will be confirmed by the results of a planned rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product, with the new figures to be made known in early 2014.
02/03/2014
When the United Nations Development Programme published its Human Development Report in 2013, it contained powerful insights about the increasingly important role developing countries.
01/31/2014
Mark Mobius, chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is picking Nigerian bank stocks ahead of South African peers as Johannesburg-based lenders battle rising bad-debt charges while trading at higher valuations.http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-0
01/30/2014
"The banks that embrace change and systematically transform themselves to become more customer-centric will achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace."
01/29/2014
The time of reckoning is here for emerging markets. After benefiting from ultra-low interest rates and sluggish growth in developed economies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, these markets are no longer looking so hot.
01/28/2014
The company said it doesn’t expect to raise bank ratings this year.