Financial Crisis

Financial distress? What distress?

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Oct 2016

The M&G went looking for financial distress in South Africa. This is what we found.

Weary world beggared by borrowing

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Jul 2015

About 95 countries are either in a debt crisis or facing one, but South Africa isn't one of them.

Greek referendum: A yes vote would be messy, a no even messier

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Jun 2015

Referendums settle matters definitively, right? Not in Greece. Both outcomes next Sunday would raise as many questions as they answer.

Global markets plunge as Greece shuts banks

Article Roland Jackson - 29 Jun 2015

Markets across the world tumble as Greece orders its banks to shut for a week and imposes capital controls after its citizens emptied ATMs.

Greek debt crisis: Key points of Athens bank controls

Article bogdan TagDiv - 29 Jun 2015

Greece's Alex Tsipras publishes a decree in the official government gazette setting out the capital controls to be imposed on the country.

Cracks showing in economic crust

Article Larry Elliott - 16 Apr 2015

Reading the International Monetary Fund's half-yearly global financial stability review feels similar to watching smoking volcanoes.

Eskom is likely to remain in the financial red

Article Sapaxxxx - 3 Feb 2015

Moody's Investors Service are not holding out on Eskom's finances improving any time soon, and neither should the country.

Our next financial crisis – due in 2015

Article Larry Elliott - 21 Jan 2014

Financial crises come round every seven years or so – if history is a guide, the next crisis should come along some time soon.

Closer ties needed to avoid future banking crisis

Article Jill Treanor - 1 Nov 2013

Policy group calls for banking supervisors to be paid more.

‘Don’t just blame the bankers for the crisis’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 May 2013

The outgoing governor of the Bank of England has called on the British people not to "demonise" bankers.

IMF: World economy risks new phase of financial crisis

Article Larry Elliott - 18 Apr 2013

The IMF has warned that the repair job on the world's financial system is partly completed and failure to finish it risks a new phase for the crisis.

Cyprus President calls on country to share weight of financial burden

Article Sapa - 29 Mar 2013

Banks have opened for normal business for the second day, but with strict restrictions still in place on how much money their clients can access.

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