
Monday briefing: a round-up of recent financial services news
Pawn-while-you-drive warning | Guardrisk insurtech platform | OM buys digital wills start-up | Investec outperforms Alsi
The FSCA’s latest action highlights the regulatory risks for individuals who may have been linked to the BHI Trust scheme.

Pawn-while-you-drive warning | Guardrisk insurtech platform | OM buys digital wills start-up | Investec outperforms Alsi

At issue: did the retrenching employer’s efforts secure alternative employment for the retrenched employees?

Financially threatened MediPos is placed under provisional curatorship

One can foresee that lawyers who have taken the time to understand ChatGPT will be able to utilise it for everyday tasks.

The intention of the grid failure exclusion is not to cancel power surge cover, the insurer says.

Advice from a qualified intermediary on how to interpret an insurer’s policy wording is essential.

Applications for the second semester of 2023 are already open.

Three things to note when it comes to customer due diligence and assessing money laundering and terrorist financing risk.

What are the benefits, premiums and waiting periods?

SA unit trust returns | Flood claims | Santam profits warning | Insuretech raises $17m | Sanlam-AfroCentric deal | Business account fees.

As with the similar section 12J investment incentive schemes, the barrier to entry is high.

FSCA has taken steps after considering the statutory manager’s report.

Following ‘prolonged non-compliance’ with the liquidity and capital adequacy requirements.

Labour Appeal Court rules that Standard Bank branch manager must be reinstated.

The huge strides being made by developments in this field should be seen as a wake-up call for financial advisers.

Independent insights into a range of investment-related matters

The country is in a position similar to the one it was in before the apartheid system collapsed.