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L-R: Petrus Bosman, MD: Bosman Adama and Family Vineyards; Rita Andreas, chairperson: Adama Workers Trust; Phillip Marais, CEO: LaunchLab, Nikiwe Bikitsha, Paul Kim, CEO: Picsa; John Hardnek, farmworker representative and Ambani Ramaru, assistant director: DTI incubation support programme.
Front: Chris Wood, executive head: merging payments, strategy and regulatory at Nedbank.
Fintech savings solution for farmworkers
[Nicci Botha] What started out as a need to provide financial well-being to farmworkers has evolved into a fintech success story... read


Finance
Rising Star Award winners announced
Rising Star Award winners announced
The winners of the 5th Annual Standard Bank Rising Star Awards were announced at Sandton Hilton on 22 July. The Rising Star Programme - operated by BlackBark Productions... read
SA's trade surplus in line with expectations
SA's trade surplus in line with expectations

Karl Götte

The country's trade balance for June 2016 came in at a surplus of R12,5bn following May's unexpectedly high revised surplus of R18,3bn... read
Insurance & Actuarial
Hunting for The Insurance Apprentice 2017
Hunting for The Insurance Apprentice 2017
The search for season three's The Insurance Apprentice is on, with applications open till 30 September 2016 for the 2017 installment of the show... read
Tech shifts the car insurance industry into top gear
Tech shifts the car insurance industry into top gear

Simon Carpenter

Complex and inconvenient processes built around inflexible and opaque products describe the experiences of many policyholders when dealing with insurers... read
Lizé Lambrechts
Collaboration between financial sector stakeholders critical to positive economic outlook
As one of the integral pillars of the South African economy, the short-term insurance industry is fundamental to the country's financial prosperity... read
Banking
Absa partners with UnionPay to provide easy banking for Chinese visitors in South Africa
Absa partners with UnionPay to provide easy banking for Chinese visitors in South Africa

Issued by UNIONPAY INTERNATIONAL

Absa partnered with UnionPay International (UPI) earlier this year to allow UPI cardholders living in or visiting South Africa to transact at any of Absa's point-of-sale terminals and withdraw cash at Absa's 9153 ATMs nationwide... read
Financial Services
LeisureFin, Nedbank lowers cost of travel finance
LeisureFin, Nedbank lowers cost of travel finance
LeisureFin and Nedbank have announced a finance solution for travellers - locally or abroad... read
Markets & Investment
#LGE2016: SA needs a peaceful and disciplined election process
#LGE2016: SA needs a peaceful and disciplined election process

Ryan Ravens

Last month, days of looting and violence in Tshwane sent an anxious shiver down the spine of corporate South Africa... read
Markets & Investment
Volatility is the new normal in the oil market
Volatility is the new normal in the oil market
Accurate foresight in the oil sector is rare, and with the current tumultuous market, understanding how it will look over the next couple of years is enormously complex... read
Taxation & Regulation
SARS uses debt collector companies to fill tax coffers
SARS uses debt collector companies to fill tax coffers

Lesedi Seforo

Strange as it may seem, some people have been receiving phone calls from private debt collecting companies urging them to pay their taxes... read
Increase in thresholds for exemption of employer-provided bursaries
Increase in thresholds for exemption of employer-provided bursaries

Mark Morgan and Gigi Nyanin

On 8 July 2016, the National Treasury released the draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill 2016 (TLAB). The TLAB aims to give effect to the various tax proposals announced in the 2016 National Budget... read
Glen Bresler
Trust tax laws under fire again

Glen Bresler, Issued by Meredith Harington

For a number of years the laws relating to the taxation of income earned by inter-vivos trusts have been under the spotlight... read
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