Tag: loan

The repo rate, inflation and the Reserve Bank’s decisions all play a role in shaping our finances, from savings and loans to monthly payments. Understanding how these factors influence our financial well-being can help us make informed decisions and prepare for economic changes.

This vidcast takes an in-depth look at luxury stocks, luxury brands, and the investment case that exists for the market locally and globally. We highlight any preferred investment opportunities identified by our community and peers and share thoughts and opinions on those. Important developments and consumer awareness conversations are also covered.

With an estimated 150,000 micro merchants in townships, peri urban areas and rural areas, digitalising small and informal merchants could create significant economic spinoffs for underserved and excluded communities across the nation. Generating R178 billion in annual sales, merchants serve around 80% of the population. These merchants are often excluded from the financial and technology tools that larger retailers take for granted, restricting them from reaching their full potential.

When we think about the impact that private credit and other forms of financing have on African companies, we tend to think about things like business growth and success. But the impact that private capital in particular has goes far beyond that.

It’s incredible how many people make resolutions about getting themselves in shape when a new year begins. Very few of us, it seems, think about the ‘financial hangover’ that we are dragging into a new year and how much getting personal finances back in shape could benefit our lives. 

The Tinder Swindler, a Netflix true-crime documentary that currently has both the online and offline world ablaze, details the story of an internet conman who constructs a tightly wound web of lies around him, with the aim of swindling his romantic interests out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Low-interest or no-interest loans to trusts are again in the sights of SARS and the Treasury. The 2017 Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (Draft TLAB)...