Restraints of trade: What financial services businesses need to get right
Case law highlights the drafting, evidence, and settlement pitfalls that can determine whether valuable client relationships and confidential information remain protected.
COFI: What must an advice file prove beyond compliance?
The FSCA’s Lezanne Botha explains why signed forms and completed disclosures are not enough, and what evidence can show that advice was suitable and customers were treated fairly.
The race to reach a fire before it becomes a total loss
Private firefighting networks, connected smoke detectors, and faster emergency response are giving insurers new ways to limit losses before flames engulf a home.
Debt-repayment burden worsens as cost-of-living pressure returns
The latest Money-Stress Tracker finds persistent financial strain alongside changing coping strategies and a growing willingness among some consumers to consider debt counselling.
Preserved, but scattered: the new retirement savings challenge
As members leave compulsory preserved savings behind when changing jobs, fragmentation across funds may make it harder to manage fees, investments, and progress towards retirement.
Municipalities are owed R218bn. So why are they running out of money?
The FFC says a system-wide breakdown in collecting and paying bills is fuelling arrears that more than a decade of government interventions has failed to contain.
This Toolkit makes POPIA compliance more practical for businesses
Moonstone Compliance’s POPIA Toolkit gives businesses a structured, practical way to navigate POPIA through customisable templates, checklists, and risk-management tools.
Preparing for diminished capacity: what advisers need to consider
An ADASA webinar will bring together financial, legal, and ethical expertise to explore how professionals and families can prepare before difficult decisions become urgent.
COFI will connect what financial institutions offer, say, and deliver
The outcomes-based framework links product and service governance with customer expectations and the experience that follows.
FST draws the line between suspicion and proof in adviser’s debarment case
The decision examines why client complaints, cellphone records, and handwriting evidence failed to establish dishonesty on a balance of probabilities.
Husband’s domicile no longer decisive in cross-border marriage disputes
Practitioners say the judgment may reshape how assets, spousal claims, and property transactions are handled where marriages span several jurisdictions.
Your crypto could be lost when you die – even if it’s in your will
Estate planning for digital assets must address a critical practical problem: ensuring executors can find and access them without compromising security during your lifetime.
Bonitas, Medscheme clash over scope of CMS investigation
Medscheme says the CMS has broadened its investigation into Bonitas’s procurement processes, but Bonitas disputes that interpretation.
FIC warns of penalties after poor RCR compliance
Less than half of the first group of accountable institutions had submitted their returns by mid-July, while submissions from the second group are low.
Minister approves draft regulations for virtual affidavits
The proposed framework would allow affidavits to be commissioned remotely through live audiovisual technology.
MBSE expands regulatory exam training with new RE1 programme
Developed in response to industry demand, the online course focuses on building the regulatory knowledge aspiring Key Individuals need for their oversight responsibilities.
Treasury faces seven-day deadline over withheld municipal funds
Lawmakers want legal questions over withheld equitable-share allocations resolved as Treasury begins releasing billions of rand to compliant municipalities.
Dividend-stripping case sharpens the boundaries of legitimate tax planning
The Tax Court has affirmed the choice principle but raised fresh questions about where legitimate tax-efficient structuring ends and impermissible avoidance begins.
