"The FNB/BER Building Confidence Index has dropped to 36, signalling serious challenges in the construction sector, ...

After gaining one index point in the first quarter of the year, the FNB/BER Building Confidence Index fell by five points to ...

African Bank readies digital lending business for SMEs By Sibahle Malinga, ITWeb senior news journalist.Johannesburg, 02 Jun 2025African Bank’s digital lending business will assist to deploy working ...

As South Africa grapples with stagnating growth and ballooning public debt, ongoing reform efforts hold the key to economic revival. Will these initiatives gain traction in time to reverse the trends ...

The Excelerate strategy is the bank’s plan to offer an IPO, as the South African Reserve Bank plans to sell ... particularly into secured lending, is building resilience into our business ...

What to expect from interest rates: The majority of economists polled by Reuters and Bloomberg expect the bank to cut its ...

The South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) current inflation target sits in the 3-6% range and its governor Lesetja Kganyago has for years stressed his preference for a lower target, saying the ...

Inflation data is due out on the same day as National Budget 3.0, with an announcement from the South African Reserve Bank to be made the following Thursday. On the back of recent easing in the ...

The three main building blocks of these reforms were a floating exchange ... LESETJA KGANYAGO is the governor of the South African Reserve Bank. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are ...

Africa holds a wealth of monetary assets, but its capital markets are lagging. Tokenization, whereby real assets are ...

Gold reserves are essential to financial stability because they shield national economies against inflation, currency ...

The real estate investment trust (Reit) sector in South Africa outperformed the country’s equity and bond sectors in April. While the Reits gained 6.9%, equities rose by 4.3% and bonds by 0.8%.