Capital

Connecting capital to opportunity: Strengthening the South Africa–global investment corridor

Global capital is not retreating from Africa, it is becoming more disciplined in how it is deployed. For South Africa, this presents both a challenge and an opportunity, and…

Jersey Finance

4 min read

South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images

CAPITAL

16 MAY 2022

Ubank placed under curatorship effective immediately

Reserve Bank says depositors will still have access to money and the bank will be operational during the process

Anathi Madubela

2 min read

Protesters gather during a “Black Lives Matter” protest near Barclays Center on May 29, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, in outrage after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died while being arrested by a police officer in Minneapolis who pinned him to the ground with his knee. – Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

BLACK TAX

2 OCT 2020

The economic effects of racism are more deadly than Covid-19

A recent report shows that racism has cost the US economy $16-trillion in growth over the past two decades. If the financial-services industry wants to show that Black Lives…

Charles R Stith

3 min read