As digital banking gains popularity, criminals have adjusted their online and social engineering tactics
Upskilling is essential, and local industry rates IRFA’s contribution highly
The purpose of the bank is making people healthy in a financial sense says Discovery CEO Adrian Gore
The bank’s vision is to be a trusted money manager
A decade ago the sector was lauded for emerging unscathed from the global financial crisis and avoiding the risky investments that doomed their peers
Many argue such banks will allow the unbanked entry and offer appropriate banking products and services, including to small and medium enterprises
Michael Tellinger has promised he will shake the banking industry’s foundations and expose it as "manipulative, dishonest and law-breaking".
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/ 21 December 2011
SA business owners are urged to make funding provisions to protect their businesses from market fluctuations but may need to look to other sources.
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/ 7 December 2011
A FinScope survey has shown that these South Africans don’t use financial institutions and choose rather to borrow from friends and family.
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/ 7 September 2009
Banks are working more closely with clients to try and restructure home-loan payments rather than to repossess.
Iraq’s private sector is weak and basic, and for most Iraqis commerce is still cash-based.
EU leaders will agree more steps on Friday to avert a repeat of the banking crisis that has sapped the world economy.
South African banks have been largely protected against the direct effects of the global financial crisis, the South Reserve Bank said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s regulatory authorities have long persisted in painting a rosy picture of the country’s banks despite the global financial meltdown.
It is time to put on your lipstick and best suit and make friends with your bank manager, writes Maya Fisher-French.
HSBC paid one of its bankers more than £13,7-million last year, while another unnamed member of staff received more than £11-million.
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/ 28 January 2009
Troika Dialog is in talks to sell a 30% stake in itself to South Africa’s Standard Bank through a new share issue, a media report said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 January 2009
One of South Africa’s top four commercial banks FNB has been granted a banking licence by the Bank of Zambia.
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/ 23 October 2008
The Western Union-Absa partnership could bridge the money transfer gap on the continent, writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 19 October 2008
Our government would have taken stakes in the Big Four, say to the tune of R120-billion or so. Now this would be a debate to have locally.
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/ 14 October 2008
Retail banks continue to feel the strain of burdened consumers, the latest Ernst & Young bank index released on Tuesday indicates.
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/ 14 October 2008
Global markets and the JSE continued to clock up losses with the All Share Index now below levels seen two years ago.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
The world’s financial markets remain at the eye of a perfect economic storm. The architects of this almighty financial sell-off? The banks themselves.
If you’re battling to pay off that new 4×4, you need to understand the implications of debt consolidation, writes David Warneke.
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/ 29 September 2008
Cas Coovadia, managing director of the Banking Association of South Africa, talks to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about the industry’s progress.
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/ 29 September 2008
The Financial Sector Charter is turning banks into developers, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 29 September 2008
The Financial Sector Charter, like the Competition Commissions bank charges enquiry, has pushed a reluctant industry into thinking out of the box.
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/ 18 September 2008
Morgan Stanley topped the list of major financial firms scrambling to find a buyer on Thursday amid panicked stock and money markets.
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/ 7 September 2008
Maya Fisher-French gives a run-down of the best ways to stash your cash.
Local banks are set to capitalise on the slump faced by global competitors, writes Maya Fisher-French.