Reserves, profits and loans are on the rise but eurozone uncertainty is casting a pall over the future in South Africa, argues Lisa Steyn. While the world watches anxiously as [...]
The creation of a liquidity pool which South African banks can tap to meet the global industry's new Basel III regulatory requirements relieves the pressure for a credit rating downgrade [...]
Unsecured lending currently accounts for just 8 percent of total credit extended by major banks. Rapid growth in South Africa's unsecured lending has not sparked a bubble and banks are [...]
Credit Card Payment Markets to Watch in 2012 Euromonitor International took a look at the markets that are expected to show the most card payment volume growth in 2012. Emerging [...]
Interesting article by Tyler Cowen in Business Day, New York Times: (Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University) Since the end of World War II, economists [...]