South Africa’s government has collected far more revenue from value-added tax (VAT) than projected in the Finance Minister’s May Budget, providing a welcome boost to state coffers as overall tax recei...
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt. They received the prize for their groundbreaking research on how innovation drives long-ter...
South Africa’s National Treasury has drawn strong international interest for its innovative $500 million foreign-currency funding initiative, receiving more than 100 proposals from global investors. T...
Canal+, the French media powerhouse, is taking its African expansion a step further by planning a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) following its takeover of MultiChoice. This...
A solar energy IPO has propelled four Indian brothers from a small Mumbai factory to billionaire status. As a result, they made their debut on the Forbes 2025 Rich List. The siblings built their famil...
FNB and RMB Private Bank customers using Huawei or Android enabled devices now have access to a new safe and secure contactless payment option with Swoo Pay. Huawei customers with NFC enabled Huawei d...
Discovery Bank has set its sights on entering the business banking space, with a clear focus on serving small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) as part of its medium- to long-term growth strategy. The move...
Investec has officially received an energy trading licence from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), a move that marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing liberalisation and transformati...
The days of queuing at the corner ATM are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as South Africa’s major banks pivot toward digital-first banking. Over the past five years, four of the country’s larges...
