Cybercriminals ramp up their attacks on tax practitioners

SARS responds to reports of hackers accessing practitioners’ eFiling profiles, removing clients, and changing banking details.

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How the FSCA spent your levies

Levies from the financial services sector contributed R837 million (2020: R827m) to the FSCA’s revenue of R927m (R926m) in the year to the end of March 2021, according to the authority’s annual report. […]

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Registrar of Pension Funds Annual Report

What can we learn from the past? The Registrar of Pension Funds 59th Annual Report for the 2017 calendar year was published on 18 December 2018. Besides the industry statistical overview, performance of […]

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Registrar of Pension Funds Annual Report

What can we learn from the past? The Registrar of Pension Funds 59th Annual Report for the 2017 calendar year was published on 18 December 2018. Besides the industry statistical overview, performance of […]

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CMS Annual Report 2016/17

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), regulator of the medical schemes industry, released its Annual Report for 2016-2017 on 5 October, providing a comprehensive report on the status of the private medical schemes industry […]

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What keeps the LT Ombudsman awake at night? Part 2

From the Long-term Ombud’s 2016 annual report: The Assessors and Adjudicators in the Long-term Ombud’s office were canvassed about the issues that currently fall into this category. Last week we discussed “Bad Bargains” […]

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FAIS Supervision Annual Report

The FAIS Supervision Department of the FSB supervises financial services providers (FSPs) in terms of a risk-based approach. In response to the changing face of the regulatory landscape, international trends and outcomes of […]

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FAIS Ombud 2012/2013 Annual Report

The statistics section of the Ombud’s report provides useful insight into trends in the industry. New complaints received During the applicable year, the FSB received 9 949 complaints. The total number of complaints […]

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Positive News from PFA

The Pension Fund Adjudicator published her annual report last week. It contains some very positive indicators, as well as concerns for the industry, and the public. In the message from the Minister of […]

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