News South Africa Financial: Saving for retirement in South Africa? Four tips to navigate the new pension rules
South Africa has changed its pension laws. The new system is designed to give individuals the opportunity to access only a portion of their retirement funds before they retire in the case of dire need ...
News South Africa Financial: South Africa has changed its retirement rules to help boost country savings: how it will work
A study of 160 countries, spanning 60 years of economic history, establishes that there is no country that has been able to transition from “poor to prosperous” without a high savings rate. And that ...
News South Africa Financial: South Africans under financial pressure urged to review budgets rather than give up saving
Business Head of Sanlam Credit Solutions, Afua Darko, said saving remains important, even if households must reduce the amount they put aside.
News South Africa Financial: AFRICA FINANCE IN BRIEF: Financial map shifts as growth meets new risks
The first two weeks of July have highlighted the forces reshaping Africa’s financial landscape. From the continent’s growing embrace of the Chinese yuan and Ethiopia’s sweeping banking reforms to ...
News South Africa Financial: Facephi, experts in digital identity and fraud prevention in regulated environments, publishes a Compliance Pocket Guide for the South African financial sector
Facephi, experts in digital identity and fraud prevention in regulated environments, publishes a Compliance Pocket Guide for the South African financial sector ...
News South Africa Financial: A Western Financial Whip Was Lifted From South Africa’s Back – But Now We Need Another
The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems of South Africa, Mozambique, Nigeria and Burkina Faso ...
News South Africa Financial: South Africa: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Financial System Stability Assessment
Ample buffers allowed the financial system to handle the COVID-19 shock relatively well, but domestic and external downside risks remain substantial—with potential implications for asset quality, ...
News South Africa Financial: What Can South Africa Learn from International Open Finance Initiatives?
Open finance, allowing third parties to access consumer data to finetune products and services, is becoming a serious discussion topic in South Africa but has some way to go to full implementation. As ...
