04/02/2020

Old Mutual pledges N$5 million for Covid-19

Old Mutual Namibia recognises that a large portion of the poor and the vulnerable receive their limited income from daily/hourly labour, which they will not be able to earn during the lockdown, he said.

04/01/2020

Buhari Exempts Financial Services Operators from Lockdown

The exemption comes as the boost in lending and other business activities have propelled higher earnings for the foreign subsidiaries of four of Nigeria’s tier 1 banks, the full year audited results of the financial institutions have shown.

03/30/2020

Reserve Bank takes steps to ease bank lending

While South African banks have been criticised by labour unions and small business owners for not doing enough to help struggling customers as the nation entered a 21-day lockdown on Friday, they have to comply with capital and reserve requirements as pre

03/27/2020

Experts laud new tax measures

The overall new tax proposals announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta to cushion Kenyans against the impact of the coronavirus pandemic are expected to rob the tax man close to 100 billion shillings in revenue.

03/27/2020

RBA fears massive benefits erosion

In a communique to 1,287 pension schemes, the RBA chief said it had reviewed reporting regulations to ease the schemes' pain by deferring submission of audited financial results by sixty days—after listed firms were given similar extension.