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 | Large asset management firms protecting their turf are behind the abrupt suspension of the National Treasury circular allowing higher ratio of offshore investments for pension funds... read |
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 | AMINA YUDA On 29 October 2020, the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) published an exchange control circular (Circular 15/2020) which in effect reclassifies all remaining foreign debt and derivative instruments as well as exchange traded funds (ETFs) referencing foreign assets, that are inward listed on a South African exchange and are traded and settled in rand, as domestic...read |
|  | LUCY DESAI In times of crisis, the economy is usually the first port of call for disaster-and the impact is generally felt for many years after...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Bizcommunity, in partnership with South Africa's leading business trend consultants Flux Trends, invites you to join BizTrends2021 - Towards New North and New Narratives on Thursday, 28 January 2021... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BULLION PR & COMMUNICATION The world is currently experiencing one of the worst health pandemics since the Spanish Flu in 1918. Not only has this had an impact on the health infrastructure of many countries, but it has resulted in economic turbulence in many markets with the looming potential of a global economic downturn if recovery efforts are not speedily implemented... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY CIMA The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants has shared its 2021 plans to deliver education and resources that assist accountants with reporting on and assurance of environmental, social and governance information... Read |
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 | PAUL MARAIS The recent credit ratings downgrades by Moody's Investor Services and Fitch Ratings - which gives South Africa its lowest credit rating since 1994... Read |
 | ANDREA RADEMEYER AND DR AMELIA RICHARDS, ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA Around a third of consumers chose not to participate in Black Friday this year, largely as a result of financial constraints (61%), but also because they don't believe prices are meaningfully reduced (21%)... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DPO PAYGATE While in-app payments, wallets and QR codes dominate in the mobile payment space, when it comes to bigger ticket items, instant EFT payments are becoming the method of choice... Read |
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 | The number of new shoppers introduced to e-commerce over lockdown boosted Black Friday weekend total online transaction volumes by 50%, compared to 2019... Read |
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 | TERENCE WILLIAMS The State of Market in South Africa 2020 insurance survey of business and insurance landscapes both globally and locally provides 10 current and future risk trends... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY OPTIMIZE AGENCY The seventh edition of the Southern Africa Europe CEO Dialogue was held, this year, in a hybrid physical and digital format in Johannesburg... Read |
 | ISSUED BY CM TRADING 2020 has been an unusual and challenging year in many ways, particularly in global markets. Daniel Kibel, co-founder of CM Trading, speculates on the outlook for forex traders in the months to come... Read |
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 | DESIREE REDDY On 20 November 2020, the FSCA issued a draft Declaration of crypto assets as a financial product (draft Declaration) under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002 (FAIS Act)... Read |
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 | ANNA COLLARD Africa offers a wealth of chances for startups and innovators looking to address cybersecurity risk across the increasingly digitised continent... Read |
 | The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) is set to make a comeback in 2021, when it will be held virtually, in partnership with Uganda, on 20 February 2021... Read |
 | NJ AYUK Last spring, the Maersk Voyager, an ultra-deepwater drillship under contract by French supermajor Total, sank a wildcat well to a depth of 3,628 metres (11,903 feet) in Block 48... Read |
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 | KARL WESTVIG Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have shone the spotlight on retail, but small business owners in the sector need as much support as possible to comprehensively bounce back, scale and build future resilience... Read |
 | DAVID TAYLOR There's some great news for motorists as we go into the final month of 2020. The price of petrol will be coming down... Read |
 | According to CSI consultancy Trialogue, South African companies spent an estimated R10.7bn on corporate social investment (CSI) in the 2020 financial year... Read |
 | Telkom is looking for 15 budding entrepreneurs who are based in Soweto and using technology to solve a problem in their communities... Read |
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