Absa’s bold leap into stablecoins

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Rob Downes, Absa’s head of digital assets at Corporate and Investment Bank, explains the reasoning behind its recent collaboration with crypto infrastructure giant Ripple, and why it is piloting its own stablecoin – backed by gold.

10 Feb English South Africa Tech News · Investing

Crypto privacy is dead… and Sars knows where the bodies are buried

Crypto investors may have years of transactions scattered across exchanges and wallets. New international reporting rules mean Sars will increasingly have data to check what taxpayers declare, explains Carel de Jager, CEO of blockchain analytics firm Sixpence.

10 Sep 16 min

South Africans are getting better at spotting fraud

The scams are becoming more convincing, helped by AI, with an astonishing 85% of South Africans encountering one in the past year, says Thalia Pillay of Orca Fraud.

3 Sep 19 min

The dangers of over-regulating crypto

Proposed new exchange-control rules could cripple SA’s crypto industry, undermine self-custody and push transactions offshore, warns MoneyBadger CEO Carel van Wyk.

27 Aug 17 min

What happens to your cryptocurrency when you die?

Harry Joffe of Discovery Life explains how poor planning can leave heirs locked out of valuable digital assets.

20 Aug 17 min

Crypto criminals are increasingly attacking people, not passwords

So-called ‘wrench attacks’ involving kidnapping, home invasions and physical threats have already netted criminals more than $30m this year, explains Philip Adiamah from Chainalysis.

13 Aug 21 min