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Tinus Rautenbach, Business Head at Clarity

Why simplicity is becoming the new currency in trading

Markets have always been complex. What’s changed is how quickly that complexity reaches everyday traders – and how convincingly it can be disguised. In the past year alone, South…

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.

Financial watchdog revokes Banxso’s licence

AfriMarkets distances itself from the company as its own licence is provisionally withdrawn

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

Ithala’s provisional liquidation may result in the closure of 257 000 depositors’ accounts while legal proceedings are under way.  (Photo: Ithala)

Ithala’s chief executive wants policy intervention for the ‘financially sound’ institution

KwaZulu-Natal economic development MEC Musa Zondi said the ‘crisis’ at the finance institution, which had its licence suspended last week, was being addressed with urgency

Where are our financial watchdogs?

Victims of scams and pyramid schemes have little chance of recouping their financial losses

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FSCA imposes fines of almost R1 billion on dodgy operators

The financial sector regulator is clamping down on service providers that are not compliant with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations

Graphic: John McCann

Financial crimes watchdog nets R100 million in penalties

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

Alan Yates, Head of Distribution at Peregrine Capital.

Financial consumers back hedge funds for better risk-adjusted returns, downside protection

The SA hedge funds industry is gaining popularity among a broader range of consumers due to increased regulatory oversight

Markus Jooste. File photo

Steinhoff’s Markus Jooste dead, allegedly by suicide

The disgraced former chief executive allegedly shot himself on a Hermanus beach in the Western Cape just a day after he was slapped with a R475 million fine

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

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

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

Resolute: Rosemary Hunter took up the case against the Financial Services Board after she was asked to cancel pension funds despite the fact that some still had assets and people were owed money from them. (Paul Botes/M&G)

She lost the battle, but won the war

Rosemary Hunter says it was inconceivable for her not to blow the whistle when people’s hard-earned pensions were at stake

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Editorial: What’s up with the doc?

​Iqbal Survé has been able to construct a business empire in the name of transformation

Absa, FNB, Nedbank, Mercantile, Sasfin, Investec, Bidvest and Access Bank have cut ties with Iqbal Survé’s  companies and Standard Bank has the Sekunjalo Group on review. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Surve blames Gordhan for raid on offices

The FSCA conducted a search and seizure Sekunjalo premises on Wednesday

Amcu — which rose to prominence during the labour unrest which led to the Marikana massacre in 2012 — began as a breakaway from the ANC-aligned National Union of Mineworkers. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Amcu, govt showdown looms amidst threat to deregister union

Amcu — which rose to prominence during the labour unrest which led to the Marikana massacre in 2012 — began as a breakaway from the ANC-aligned NUM

Jaco Wasserfall, director at ZAQ

Benefits counselling model employs FinTech for an effective solution

This addresses the uncertainty in the industry with regards to how benefit counselling will be provided

At the start of 2026, four of South Africa’s five largest banks were simultaneously pursuing acquisition targets in Kenya.

Unfair banking practices rapped in World Bank report

​A World Bank retail banking study of transactional and fixed deposits has found shortcomings in the way South African banks treat their customers