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Ex-Strate CEO Monica Singer on her gig with ConsenSys and SARB's blockchain pilot
JOHANNESBURG — Uruguayan-born Chartered Accountant, Monica Singer, is legendary in South Africa's financial space as her 18 years at Strate included the hugely innovative introduction of electronic settlement of securities in the country. She also helped Strate become known as one of the most progressive Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) in…
Meet Joshua Miltz, co-founder of BitFund - SA's first diversified cryptocurrency platform for investors
JOHANNESBURG — Here's a very interesting interview with a very smart young South African guy who's still just in his twenties. Joshua Miltz, a computer programmer by training, is one of the co-founders of a South African FinTech business dubbed 'BitFund'. Now, BitFund describes itself as a single-entry point for…
Zambia's Sentinel copper mine, Africa's biggest, a project worth 20% of nation's GDP
The African Continent possesses enormous mineral wealth but bringing this rich endowment to account can be a complex matter. For decades Johannesburg-based RMB had specialised in the region. It has now played a major role in supporting the development of Sentinel, a $2.1bn operation, which when completed in 2 years’…
Foreign investment, SA expertise and support, delivers Mozambique's $10bn game changer
Mozambique's huge new export earner, the Moatize Coal Mine, reflects what's possible when private sector incentives and public sector support and banking facilitation comes together. A project that involves Brazilian mining group Vale, Japanese industrial giant Mitsui and SA banks led by RMB, the project includes a railway line of…
Meet IndieFin's Peter Castleden - Sanlam-backed actuary whose team is disrupting life assurance
Ever since Steve Jobs put his Apple Mac pirates into a separate part of the building, complete with a Jolly Roger and a different dress code, corporates have seen the value in hiving off their new product teams. In SA, the best example of this approach is life assurance group…
Portugal’s Golden Visa: Key updates you need to know if you’re taking the leap
JOHANNESBURG — For years, Portugal's Golden Visa programme has become a strong plan B for many South Africans looking to hedge their bets against the uncertainty that exists in the country. There have been some recent changes to the programme that have actually improved the efficiencies of the Golden Visa…
A2X CEO Kevin Brady: We're targeting 20% of total activity in SA equities market
JOHANNESBURG — JSE-rival A2X has started to build some serious momentum after launching in October 2017. Last week, A2X announced that Growthpoint would launch a secondary listing on the exchange. This comes after Sanlam also launched a secondary listing on A2X in April this year, becoming the biggest listing on…
Amazon's ever-growing presence in SA - both physically and in the 'cloud'
JOHANNESBURG — Last week, I attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in Cape Town. It was the third event of its kind in the city and the attendance has surged from around 600 IT developers several years ago to over 2,000 last week. It's no surprise that demand for…
Braamfontein's Tshimologong precinct targets becoming 'go-to-place' for world-class tech
JOHANNESBURG — A recent R14.5m funding boost from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for Braamfontein's Tshimologong precinct is another feather in the cap for the digital innovation hub. The precinct - which is the brainchild of Professor Barry Dwolatsky, the director of Wits University’s JCSE (Johannesburg Centre of Software Engineering) - first opened…
DO. FAIL. LEARN. REPEAT: Nic Haralambous on changing how SA sees entrepreneurship
JOHANNESBURG — Nic Haralambous has spent his entire working life as an entrepreneur. And as he tells me in this interview, "15 years of back-to-back failures" have taught him a hell of a lot and sparked the writer within him to pen his debut book entitled, DO FAIL LEARN REPEAT – The Truth Behind Building…
SHOCKER! Illegal cigarette trade EXPLODED with Moyane at SARS, SA losing billions - study
JOHANNESBURG — For years, TISA says it looked on while illicit cigarettes, which fail to comply with local tax laws, have flooded the market. In addition, TISA says that this coincided with a breakdown in its relationship with SARS, starting in 2014 - the year in which Tom Moyane was…
Meet Darren Roos, the South African who is CEO of global software firm IFS
JOHANNESBURG — Wherever you go in the world, you're bound to bump into a South African. One of those South Africans is Darren Roos, who now lives in the UK. In April this year, Roos - who is a long-time veteran in the enterprise software space - became CEO of…
Naspers' hefty discount: Who's to blame? Sanlam analyst takes a closer look.
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Safari Investments: Property jewel hidden in the small cap graveyard - with a plan to make it shine
Safari Investments has been a heavy investor into South Africa's former townships long before it became popular, and is now reaping the benefits of its far-sighted strategy. After a R900m fund raising exercise, the company is very lightly geared and is hunting high quality investments bit in SA and in…
Tony Leon on Ramaphosa's rise to power, DA's woes and SA's changing politics
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Here's what you need to know about the Allan Gray Investment Summit 2018
JOHANNESBURG — Allan Gray's Investment Summit is being held in Cape Town and Sandton later this month respectively on 17 July and 18 July. It's shaping up to be a very interesting event for those interested in the investment world as Allan Gray's Tamryn Lamb outlines below. What also looks…
WEBINAR: Global Portfolio June 2018 - Annualised return back to 35%; goodbye MetroBank, hello Adobe
A good month for the share prices of Amazon and Alphabet, which between them account for 40% of the portfolio, ensured a healthy uplift from $358k to $360k in the total portfolio, despite some notable price declines elsewhere in the portfolio. Chinese companies Tencent and Alibaba came under pressure as…
Disrupting SA car insurance, local fintech 'Naked' seeks peeling away costs
JOHANNESBURG - Just like the Michael Jordaan-back…
Why Liberty failed basic security rules in alarming ransom hack - cyber expert
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Southern Africa’s PE landscape: In conversation with Mike Donaldson
JOHANNESBURG — The latest available South African…