Treasury takes the next step in financial sector reform.
The FSCA has proposed establishing a single central unclaimed assets fund into which all unclaimed assets should be transferred. This is one of 13 recommendations in its discussion paper on unclaimed assets, which […]
An estimated R88.56 billion in unclaimed assets are held by institutions across the financial sector. However, the FSCA says the amount might be far higher because there is no common understanding of what […]
National Treasury has “loosened the lids” on the pots in the two-pot retirement system, agreeing to amend the draft legislation so that fund members will be able to access the savings they accumulated […]
The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (Asisa) has welcomed National Treasury’s decision to move out, by a year, the date for implementing the two-pot retirement system but still believes the new […]
National Treasury has proposed amending the draft two-pot retirement legislation to clear up a number of grey areas identified by stakeholders. The proposed changes were announced on Tuesday, when Treasury addressed the National […]
The High Court in Johannesburg has placed Constantia Insurance Company Limited (CICL) in final liquidation after granting the urgent application brought by the Prudential Authority (PA) and the short-term insurer’s curator at the […]
Multisure Corporation’s attempt bring into operation the High Court order cancelling its intermediary agreement with KGA Life has failed, despite a successful High Court ruling last month, because KGA has been granted leave […]
The FSCA this week published a media release providing a short summary of the content covered in its financial soundness workshop for FSPs that collect premiums or hold assets. The online workshop was […]
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has appointed Thobile Masina as the new acting FAIS Ombud. Masina was the assistant ombud since October 2017. She replaces Advocate Nonku Tshombe, who acted in the position […]
A decision by a pension fund was referred to the Pension Funds Adjudicator’s office, and subsequently to the Financial Services Tribunal by the disgruntled siblings of the deceased. Background After the death of […]
Consumers not only bought fewer risk policies in the first six months of this year but also lapsed a higher number of policies, which is in stark contrast to the same period last […]
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) collected an additional R3 billion through its voluntary disclosure programme (VDP) and prevented tax leakage of another R865 million during the 2021 tax year. However, the latest […]
The publication of the final amendments to Joint Standard 1 of 2020 by the FSCA means that the significant owners of FSPs must now comply with the honesty and integrity requirement from which […]
The Office of the Ombudsman for Long-Term Insurance (Olti) received 11.8% fewer chargeable complaints in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, when the number of complaints […]
Most economists who participated in a poll by Reuters expect that the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) will raise the repo rate by 75 basis points this week. Of the 20 economists polled […]
The Competition Tribunal has granted interim relief to the Sekunjalo Group, preventing three banks from closing the group’s accounts and ordering five others to reopen accounts that have already been closed. The interim […]
A beneficiary fund should not be the default choice when a retirement fund pays out a death benefit due to minor beneficiaries, but trustees must interrogate a guardian’s circumstances and intentions before making […]
