The banking sector has fared well despite a difficult economic climate
Loopholes and delay tactics allow bogus owners to get rent for buildings in legal limbo
Bank employee acting ‘out of mandate’ faces disciplinary procedures
To date, most of the large companies to cut ties with McKinsey have been financial institutions such as Nedbank, Standard Bank and Barclays Africa.
The Joy of Jazz’s venue was cumbersome but couldn’t constrain a genre that revels in flouting restrictions
The development finance entity says it wasn’t aware of a beneficiary’s connection to a minister
"Earlier this year, the commission brought a case against 17 major local and international financial institutions for collusion"
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is seeking a declatory order on the extent of his power to intervene in a bank-client relationship
Beyond the language of price-fixing and collusion, this type of behaviour by bankers amounts to taking food off the tables of South Africans.
If all 17 institutions are penalised, the country’s R140‑billion budget deficit could be wiped out in one fell swoop.
The bank asked the High Court to prevent the president from intervening in its decision to close accounts of companies linked to the Gupta family.
FirstRand is the first lender to publicly disclose reasons for severing links with Oakbay Investments, a company controlled by the Gupta brothers
The ‘big four’ are faring well in tough times yet their shares remain cheap, confounding analysts.
With fake credit cards, fraudsters made 14 000 transactions totalling R300-million from 1 400 ATMs in just three hours.
Mantashe stressed that the Reserve Bank must answer for the closure of the family’s accounts – despite its insistence that it would not get involved.
The Mail & Guardian spoke to some of the protesters who marched on three of SA’s biggest banks and asked them what they thought of the Guptas.
Lucky Vusi Dube is linked to bank robberies, in large part, across Johannesburg in 2014.
The prominent economist came under flak earlier this year after posting a tweet that many on social media deemed racist.
The big four banks have managed to grow earnings impressively, but enormous challenges remain as SA’s economic outlook continues to deteriorate.
After an outcry over suspended Standard Bank economist and strategist Chris Hart’s qualifications on Twitter, Wits has listed his qualifications.
The Reserve Bank hasn’t found any untoward activity in a review of foreign exchange trading, but the Competition Commission is investigating.
Standard Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and BASF Metals are the four companies accused of manipulating the price of platinum.
Moody’s ratings downgrade of South Africa’s four big banks cast the rescue of African Bank in a very different light.
Experts say falling liquidity raises the risk that it will be more difficult to sell the bonds in the event of any deterioration in sentiment.
Standard Bank say nine more poorly performing assets could be put up for sale by Anglo as it prepares to report its first-half earnings.
BNP Paribas has begun to negotiate the purchase of RCS Investment Holdings, a consumer credit provider owned by Standard Bank and Foschini.
Growth in unsecured lending and a repricing of mortgages helped boost Standard Bank’s interest income.
The currency has rebounded in anticipation of inflation data and higher than expected numbers could spell an end to the rand’s weakness.
The UK’s Standard Bank has been fined $12.6-million by the Financial Conduct Authority for failing to implement adequate anti-laundering controls.
The former president of China’s biggest bank, Yang Kaisheng, has been appointed as Standard Bank Group’s new deputy chairperson.
Standard Bank is selling over R1-billion of Discovery shares for an unnamed client.
Shortages in the market could see tin continue to perform better than any other base metal on the market.