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JSE directors, CEO donate a third of salaries for three months to Solidarity Fund

By: Marleny Arnoldi 17th April 2020 The JSE has announced that its board of directors and group CEO have pledged to donate at least 30% of their salaries to the national Solidarity Fund for the next three months. This follows after the JSE donated its trading revenue for April 15 and 16 to the Solidarity fund. →

iiDENTIFii contributes to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Solidarity Fund

By: Donna Slater 16th April 2020 Identity verification specialists iiDENTIFii says it will financially contribute to the Combatting Covid-19 Fund, launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, thereby helping to ease the burden on the less fortunate. The company also donated to this foundation to help it find a medical... →

Ubank donates R2m to Solidarity Fund, assists miners' families

By: Donna Slater 16th April 2020 Financial services provider Ubank, together with the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC), have joined forces to support government to combat the negative financial impacts of Covid-19 by contributing R2-million towards relief efforts. Of this, R1-million will comprise Ubank’s contribution... →

Health foundation calls for donations to meet R500m needed to fight Covid-19

By: Donna Slater 15th April 2020 Nonprofit public benefit organisation, the South African Medical and Education Foundation (Same) is appealing to the nation, particularly domestic business, to assist in raising R500-million. The money is urgently needed for critical medical equipment required to protect healthcare workers,... →

Economic transactions plunge as Covid-19 takes its toll

By: Simone Liedtke 15th April 2020 Economic transactions in South Africa plunged in March as Covid-19 took its toll on the economy and consumers, BankservAfrica’s Economic Transaction Index (Beti) has found. This data, the financial organisation said, suggests that the economy is shrinking rapidly as the Beti declined by 3.31% in... →

Standard Chartered announces initiatives to support communities during Covid-19

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 14th April 2020 International banking group Standard Chartered says it is committed to supporting clients, and the communities in which it operates, both through the current pandemic crisis and the longer-term support and renewal phase. It has announced a number of measures to provide support. →

Online hackathon launched to spur development of Covid-19-tackling solutions

By: Donna Slater 14th April 2020 The African Development Bank (AfDB) and partners will host an international 72-hour online competition, the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge – aimed at developing effective solutions to the coronavirus pandemic – from April 16 to 19. The hackathon, or as the AfDB calls it, the "ideathon", is open to... →

South Africa should consider additional funding sources to combat Covid-19, says BER

By: Simone Liedtke 14th April 2020 South Africa will require significant resources to fund the coronavirus battle and, because funding is lacking, the country should be open – or at least not be surprised by – (temporary) funding options that would have been unthinkable a mere two months ago, the Bureau for Economic Research (BER)... →

Old Mutual provides free cover to healthcare workers

By: Donna Slater 8th April 2020 Financial services group Old Mutual is making R4-billion worth of cover available to about 430 000 registered healthcare workers across South Africa, the group announced on April 8. Unlike traditional cover, the initiative offered to these professionals is neither a product nor a policy and no... →

Covid-19 showing importance of early action in tackling global threats, says NPO

By: Simone Liedtke 8th April 2020 While the world’s immediate priorities have shifted to focus on dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, the virus is showing the importance of early action in tackling global threats, and it is therefore crucial that the world not emerge from this crisis to find itself worse off in terms of efforts... →

Research reveals gap in Covid-19 funding for businesses in townships

By: Donna Slater 7th April 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic and the current lockdown are already having a devastating impact on South Africa’s economy, with informal and small businesses in townships likely to feel the brunt of the impact. A study by postgraduate students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and entrepreneurs from... →

Innovation Hub launched to promote responsible innovation in the South African financial sector

By: Donna Slater 7th April 2020 South Africa’s financial regulators on April 7 launched the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) Innovation Hub in response to changes in the financial sector driven by financial technology (fintech) and to promote responsible innovation in the sector. The IFWG Innovation Hub provides... →

Unemployment beneficiaries wait while Nedlac discussions progress

By: Donna Slater 7th April 2020 Many employers are waiting for greater clarity regarding unemployment benefits for their staff that have been temporarily laid off during the national lockdown, which is enforced from March 27 to April 16 to curb the spread of Covid-19, according to business law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH).... →

Gillian Lumb

The Property Industry Group announces industry-wide assistance, relief package

By: Simone Liedtke 7th April 2020 The Property Industry Group has announced an industry-wide assistance and relief package for retail tenants that are hardest hit by South Africa’s lockdown in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative, which focuses principally on supporting affected small-, medium-sized and... →

Property Industry Group spokesperson and SA Reit Association chairperson Estienne de Klerk

SME relief programme oversubscribed days after applications open

By: Simone Liedtke 7th April 2020 The Sakuma Relief Programme’s fund has been oversubscribed, with applications for financial assistance exceeding the current available capital of R1-billion, just days after applications opened. This includes both completed applications and applications in progress. →

Prudential Authority welcomes financial relief measures taken by banks

By: Simone Liedtke 7th April 2020 The Prudential Authority (PA) welcomes the measures taken by banks to support their customers during this period of economic turmoil and uncertainty and notes that a “safe, sound and robust banking system is a key part of South Africa’s shock absorbers during these times”. This is especially the... →

National Treasury highlights PFMA extensions

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 3rd April 2020 Following the declaration of a state of disaster and a national lockdown in the country, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, in terms of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), has issued an exemption notice to institutions to which that Act applies to ensure effective financial management and to... →

Broadband Infraco, ItakaneICT partner to enable cashless platforms

By: Natasha Odendaal 3rd April 2020 Broadband Infraco and ItakaneICT have partnered to deploy cashless payment platforms to rural and disadvantaged communities. The move will help in dispensing and transacting financially without using physical cash amid the Covid-19 outbreak. →

Standard Chartered to launch $50m global fund for Covid-19 relief

By: Marleny Arnoldi 3rd April 2020 International banking group Standard Chartered has launched a $50-million global fund to provide assistance to those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Half of the funding will immediately be deployed for relief in the group’s most affected markets, while the balance will help communities over... →

Absa pledges financial support to SMMEs

By: Simone Liedtke 2nd April 2020 Financial institution Absa has partnered with the South African Future Trust (SAFT) to administer the disbursement of funds to small-, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) whose income will be impacted on in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a sign of support, Absa, alongside three other... →

RMB aims to ‘keep the wheels of the economy turning’ by assisting SMEs

By: Simone Liedtke 2nd April 2020 Banks, businesses, government, regulators and the broader financial services sector need to pull together like never before in a constructive partnership to help guide South Africa through what will be an extremely difficult economic period, the full scale of which is as yet unknown, Rand... →

FNB urges customers to apply for Covid-19 relief measures it offers

By: Marleny Arnoldi 2nd April 2020 FNB says Credit Life is one of the options it offers to provide relief to customers impacted by Covid-19, serving as a credit insurance mechanism. The financial services provider late in March announced a new set of cash flow relief measures for customers whose finances have been impacted by... →

AfDB leading the Covid-19 fight with financing in Africa

By: Marleny Arnoldi 2nd April 2020 The African Development Bank (AfDB) on April 1 approved $2-million in emergency assistance for the World Health Organisation (WHO). This will help reinforce the organisation’s capacity to help African countries contain the Covid-19 pandemic and mitigate its impacts. →

Santam commits R200m to assist clients, suppliers and for the Solidarity Fund

By: Donna Slater 1st April 2020 Financial services provider and general insurer, Santam Group, has committed R200-million in Covid-19 relief to help clients and suppliers and to contribute to the government’s Solidarity Fund. Santam Group will also contribute to flattening the Covid-19 curve through additional corporate social... →

AfDB, Moz government ink deal to pave road crucial to trade

By: Donna Slater 1st April 2020 The government of Mozambique and development finance institution, the African Development Bank (AfDB). have signed a protocol agreement for a $34-million grant for the paving of the 35 km Nambungali-Roma road, in Mozambique, to facilitate trade and promote social inclusion of local communities.... →

Standard Chartered commits $1bn to companies at forefront of fighting Covid-19

By: Donna Slater 31st March 2020 International banking group Standard Chartered will commit $1-billion in financing for companies that provide goods and services to help in the fight against Covid-19, and those planning the switch into making products that are in high demand to fight the worldwide pandemic, the bank announced on... →

Covid-19 may exacerbate the abuse of power – Corruption Watch

By: Sane Dhlamini 31st March 2020 Not-for-profit organisation Corruption Watch on Tuesday released its yearly corruption report with executive director David Lewis saying South Africans should not expect corruption to lessen during the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s report is themed “The Writing is on the Wall” and shows... →

Corruption Watch executive director, David Lewis

FNB says assist customers impacted by Covid-19

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 30th March 2020 First National Bank (FNB) has been working to reconfigure its operations, where necessary, to operate efficiently and to help customers, especially those whose financial position has been impacted by Covid-19. “Our aim is to ensure that all our customers can continue keeping their financial... →

Insurers try to ease burden on policyholders amid Covid-19 pandemic

By: Donna Slater 30th March 2020 To help ease the financial burden potentially brought to some people by the slow-down in business during the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdown, Momentum Short-Term Insurance (MSTI) is giving clients early access to R26-million in future no-claims and safety bonuses. To provide immediate... →

Standard Bank ‘ready to serve’ during Covid-19 lockdown

By: Simone Liedtke 27th March 2020 Financial institution Standard Bank on March 27 said it “strongly supports” the measures to preserve people’s health and lives, adding that the strong public health measures adopted by governments against the spread of Covid-19 were “urgently necessary”. In his weekly newsletter, Standard Bank CE... →

Solidarity Fund launched to assist in Covid-19 fight

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 26th March 2020 President Cyril Ramaphosa on March 23 announced the creation of a Solidarity Fund, designated to unite the nation and accelerate the country’s response to Covid-19. The focus of the fund is to alleviate the suffering and distress caused by the virus on the country, and will mobilise the support... →

Kuben Naidoo reappointed SARB Deputy Governor

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 25th March 2020 The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has welcomed the reappointment of Kuben Naidoo as one of the three Deputy Governors of the SARB for a second five-year term. Naidoo, whose reappointment is effective from April 1, to March 31, 2025, was first appointed a Deputy Governor on April 1, 2015. →

Public Enterprises, business rescue practitioners battle over SA Express

By: Rebecca Campbell 20th March 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has expressed, in a statement, its concern about the direction that the business rescue process for State-owned regional airline SA Express was taking. “[T]he Business Rescue Practitioners [BRPs] are planning to ‘ground’ the airline without first... →

Covid-19 to have ripple effect on markets, says Savca

By: Simone Liedtke 18th March 2020 The Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (Savca) has promised to offer its members guidance in “navigating the challenging economic landscape” that lies ahead through a weekly webinar series. Savca CEO Tanya van Lill on Wednesday stressed that the Covid-19 outbreak... →

Savca CEO Tanya van Lill

Targeted relief measures being considered for South Africa, says PwC

By: Simone Liedtke 16th March 2020 Apart from providing fiscal and monetary stimulus, a variety of targeted relief measures are under discussion in many countries across the world following the outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) towards the end of last year. South Africa is one of the latest countries to experience the spread... →

Bank funds beverages company expansion strategy into Africa

13th March 2020 Financial services group Standard Bank has successfully arranged and structured $50-million in financing facilities for beverages company Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) to support its expansion strategy in Ethiopia over the next five years. The Coca-Cola Company holds a majority stake in CCBA,... →

National nonrevenue water programme in development

By: Darren Parker 13th March 2020 The State-owned Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is spearheading a programme targeting the creation of a centralised national office to tackle non-revenue water projects for municipalities while seeking innovative funding solutions. DBSA product development specialist Johann Lübbe and... →

IN THE PIPELINE The national non-revenue water central office and programme should be fully operational by the end of 2021

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