Philip Short, senior equity analyst at Flagship Asset Management Consumers’ first thoughts on tobacco companies are generally “unhealthy; addictive; money machines”. As an investor, one...
Regulation & Compliance
Certain Provisions of Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Act, 2017 come into force
Lerato Lamola, Associate Director & Christopher Williamson, Candidate Attorney from Webber Wentzel Sections of the FICA Amendment Act have come into force, including reporting...
Retirement – The right to laziness
Dirk Oosthuizen, Head: Research and Principal Consultant at Simeka In France, earlier this year, a series of protests took place about a proposed pension reform to increase the retirement age...
PFA says beneficiaries deserve compensation for undue delays
Muvhango Lukhaimane, Pension Funds Adjudicator Pretoria – 21 August 2023: The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator has been inundated by a raft of complaints about unnecessary delays in...
Renewed interest in umbrella trusts
Megan Rank, Legal Manager, Fairheads Benefit Services In the early 1990s, Fairheads pioneered the use of umbrella trusts to house death benefits payable to the dependants of deceased...
Beyond competition: the prominent role of public interest conditions in financial sector mergers
Dudu Mogapi, Senior Associate & Reine Aldous, Candidate Attorney at Webber Wentzel The competition authorities are increasingly imposing public interest conditions when approving mergers,...
Data Protection and Cybersecurity in the Open Finance space
Lerato Lamola, Associate Director and Karl Blom, Partner at Webber Wentzel The FSCA has published a draft paper addressing the risks and possible remedies arising from data sharing in Open...
Fintech and Treating Customers Fairly
Lerato Lamola, Associate Director at Webber Wentzel Fintech businesses need to apply Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles when designing new products and services, especially...
Taking tech to tradition: Mitigating risk in the evolving financial services sector
Kirsten Wolmarans, Partner at Webber Wentzel As technology distorts the boundaries between the physical and digital realms, adequate risk mitigation measures must be built into collaborations...
Regulation and responsibility: transparency as a capstone of the insurance industry
Charlene Lawrence, Head: Brokers and Outsourced Partners, MiWay Insurance At its most fundamental level, the building blocks of the insurance industry are relationships. The long-term success...
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