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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
272 – 292

The Brandfather

Jeremy Sampson, MD of Brand Finance Africa Sydney Mbhele, Sanlam’s chief executive of Brand
15 Apr 2021 12PM 14 min

ESG now in an ETF

Sygnia, the asset manager founded by Magda Wierzycka, has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF), giving investors exposure to overseas companies that promote sustainable investment. Sygnia Itrix S&P Global 1200 ESG ETF was listed on the main board of the JSE on Monday, bringing the number of ETFs listed on…
15 Apr 2021 12PM 5 min

EOH starting to turn

EOH is one of South Africa’s largest technology services companies in Industry Consulting, IT Services, Systems Integration, Software, Industrial Technologies, and Business Process Outsourcing. T The Group continues to try and put a period wracked with fraud and criminality behind it and remains a market leader in its core Information…
14 Apr 2021 12PM 8 min

China’s digital yuan evokes dystopian future

Fifteen centuries after China invented banknotes, the nature of money is set to fundamentally change. Back then, in the Tang dynasty (around 618AD) paper money was little more than an IOU and became known as “flying cash” because, unlike metal money, it had a tendency to blow away. Cryptocurrencies such…
14 Apr 2021 12PM 9 min

Coinbase rides crypto wave

The big news in the crypto world last week was the IPO of Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange. Ahead of its listing Its shares last traded hands at a US$100bn valuation in private markets. $223bn is the estimated value of crypto assets that Coinbase has — or around 11% of…
14 Apr 2021 12PM 9 min

View from the market

Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager, FNB Wealth and Investments Greg Katzenellenbogen, senior portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth
14 Apr 2021 12PM 19 min

View from the Market

Rob Towell, portfolio managers at Sasfin Securities Chris Gilmour, independent analyst
13 Apr 2021 12PM 19 min

Technology adoption: beyond the Covid hype

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everything from consumer behaviour to supply chains, and the economic fallout is causing further changes. The one thing that we hear about constantly is how technology and digital transformation has been speeded up as a result. But how much of this is true and how…
12 Apr 2021 6PM 26 min

Is crypto a speculative instrument or a means for commerce?

There is a new wave of excitement about cryptocurrencies after the market topped 2 trillion for th1st time, but S&P Global Ratings believes they continue to be speculative instruments instead of a means for commerce. In a report published Thursday, titled "The Future Of Banking: Cryptocurrencies Are Still Mostly About…
12 Apr 2021 12PM 27 min
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