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New legislation seeks to close regulatory gaps to protect consumers and promote a competitive digital finance system. Photo: Nadine Hutton/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Buy now, panic later: A legal deep dive into South Africa’s payment revolution

New legislation seeks to close regulatory gaps to protect consumers and promote a competitive digital finance system

Ithala SOC Limited chief executive Thulani Vilakazi

‘We are no VBS,’ says Ithala Bank chief executive Thulani Vilakazi

The KwaZulu-Natal state-owned bank is working to overcome its regulatory and legislative issues

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action.(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

SA companies should focus on meeting the requirements for a ‘green economy’

The public and civil society taking action to ensure compliance with environmental sustainability local and international laws and treaties is likely to gather momentum

A step-by-step guide to forex trading for South African investors

To make money in this field requires research, careful planning and plenty of practise

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has revoked the financial services provider licence of Banxso, marking an escalation in its regulatory action after receiving consumer complaints about the business.

Deepfake content ‘explosion’ lies ahead

Prominent people such as Elon Musk, Johann Rupert and Leanne Manas have been victims on social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, and so have primary school children.

Deepfake adverts using Elon Musk to advertise.

Deepfake adverts exploit prominent figures: Banxso and Afrimarkets under scrutiny

Banxso has denied any links to or association with Immediate Matrix, the company behind some of the adverts that direct users to its trading platforms

Financial watchdog sinks teeth into Banxso investigation

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Financial crimes watchdog nets R100 million in penalties

Seventy cases of alleged financial crimes have been referred to the police for further investigation

Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste. (David Harrison/M&G)

Steinhoff’s Markus Jooste slapped with R475 million fine

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Craig Warriner. Graphic representation by John McCann/M&G

Victims of R2.7bn BHI Trust ponzi scheme in the dark

Investors are worried that as the investigation drags on, their life savings may have been transferred out of reach to offshore companies

Simple answers to questions about life insurance 

If you don’t have life insurance to protect it, the lifestyle you’ve created for your loved ones may be compromised when you’re no longer there

Rising interest rates and living costs deal a double blow to the poor. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

Interest rates, poverty and the burden of debt

Rising interest rates and living costs deal a double blow to the poor

No record of ‘Casanova’ fraudster Johan Fouche as a legal practitioner, at least after 2009

Fouche’s current business, Asiphakame, is also not registered as a financial services provider with the Financial Services Conduct Authority

Former SAA Technical board chair and SAA board member Yakhe Kwinana testifies before the Zondo Commission on November 02, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

South African Institute of Chartered Accountants investigates ‘clueless or dishonest’ Kwinana

Yakhe Kwinana, the former chairperson of SAA Technical, has been asked to make representations to Saica, but has not responded

(John McCann/M&G)

No more cash for coal FirstRand says

The bank’s chief risk officer says banks can’t stand on the sidelines of the climate crisis debate

Off target: Capitec Bank took on short-seller Viceroy, whose founder Fraser Perring is pictured, and whose report on the bank was subsequently found to be false. (Photo: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Capitec Bank flies high above Viceroy’s arrow

The bank took a knock after being labelled a loan shark by the short seller, but this has not stymied its growth

Bitcoin ‘whales’ pulling cryptocurrency

Bitcoin’s crypto-nite wanes as illicit activity falls

New research shows that there were fewer cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2020 — a bumper year for the digital asset. But the biggest scam originated in South Africa

Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste. (David Harrison/M&G)

Financial conduct body slaps Jooste with R162-million fine

The former Steinhoff chief executive and three others have been fined by the FSCA for insider trading in the days leading up to the company’s 2017 share price crash

JM Busha insists he has not done anything wrong and that his company is the victim
of fabricated information. (Greg Reynolds Photography)

The pastor, the politician and the pension funds

The financial regulator has been criticised for handing back an asset manager’s licence so that workers’ money can be recovered

Nothing to smile about: The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has provisionally suspended JM Busha’s company’s operating licence over ‘conduct issues’. (Alex Scott Lambley)

Municipal Workers Retirement Fund comes under scrutiny

Financial sector regulator turns its attention to fund’s board to probe its compliance with fiduciary duty requirements