09/28/2020
A clear global trend has emerged in the last couple of years and Mauritius is now slowly but surely following the same trend – in other words, following the global transition towards sustainability-driven economies.
09/28/2020
We take a closer look at the findings of the Global Business Complexity Index 2020
09/25/2020
In terms of quarterly growth in the numbers of enquiries between Q1 and Q2 2020, the sharpest rise was seen in Nigeria.
09/25/2020
Women form only 4% of total board members in the top 50 Mena companies compared to about 35% in an index of European listed companies
09/25/2020
South African startup Yellow, which enables low income, rural households in Malawi and Uganda to access electricity through solar home systems on a financed basis, plans to move into other verticals after raising a US$3.3 million Series A funding round.
09/24/2020
Article by Somaya Joshua, Head: Commercial Property Finance (Africa Regional Operations) at Absa.
09/23/2020
Speaking on the general level of corruption and its impact in the country, the group equated it to ‘World War 3’.
09/23/2020
5 important things happening in South Africa today
In South Africa, there have been 1,346 new cases, taking the total reported to 663,282.
09/23/2020
You would recall that the restrictions meant banks had to prioritise branch openings, but we still needed to serve customers
09/23/2020
South Africa’s average household wealth versus the world
Insurance and pensions reached a plus of 8.1%, mainly reflecting the rise of underlying assets, and bank deposits increased by 6.4%
09/22/2020
So long before the current global public health crisis, Japan and Kenya have been collaborating for over 40 years to create and develop Kemri
09/22/2020
For a period of time now, many of us have raised concern about the terms and structure of Kenya's debt portfolio, but we have been dismissed by the Treasury as being alarmist for no reason.
09/22/2020
Gipf Says Pension Money Is Safe
Namfisa said the law prohibits them from going into detail beyond announcing the deregistration of an entity.
09/22/2020
Joining the quest for a just and impact-led recovery
While the world has been irreparably changed by Covid-19, our beliefs and values as a business stay the same.
09/22/2020
72% of South African women are living in 'survival mode'
The survey was conducted by Sanlam and had a sample size of over 2 000 women across South Africa
09/22/2020
Ethiopia Begins Circulation of New Currency
Banks had urged the government to demonetize, citing money circulating outside the banking system has worsened the liquidity problems banks are facing.
09/22/2020
Kaspersky finds risky password trends in South Africa
South African users are also using unreliable and unsafe methods to store or remember passwords.
09/21/2020
African countries ‘ready to open our doors again to the world’
Falling infection rates spur nations to ease curbs on lockdown-battered economies
09/21/2020
South African bank accounts linked in ‘dirty money’ report
Reuters said that the reports are not necessarily proof of wrongdoing, and the ICIJ reported documents were a tiny fraction of the reports filed with FinCEN.
09/21/2020
To achieve financial success, the 4Cs will be of great help.