Intellidex is a leading research and consulting firm that specialises in capital markets and financial services in Africa.
South Africans’ over-indebtedness has long been a political risk for the financial system. Almost 10-million have impaired credit records and millions more struggle to meet repayments. That is a...
Read moreWhy invest only for financial gain, when your investment can also have positive social consequences? The idea that our investments can do good in the world, rather than just serve our narrow financial...
Read moreIn some ways I preferred the period of 2005-2008, when Cosatu would march to the Reserve Bank and make demands to the governor. They were simpler times, with simpler demands.
Read moreIntellidex is constantly monitoring the legislative and regulatory changes occurring in Parliament and elsewhere that affect the financial services sector clients. Intellidex social media editor Mayo...
Read moreSA is a complex swirl of emotions: edginess, anger, despair and resignation. Most worrying is that such emotions apply to business too, putting the country at a very dangerous point — there is a...
Read moreSA is a complex swirl of emotions: edginess, anger, despair and resignation. Most worrying is that such emotions apply to business too, putting the country at a very dangerous point — there is a...
Read moreOh what a dull, decrepit time to be a banker, especially a banker in one of the big four.
Read moreWho cares about visas? There is so much else going on in SA it’s sometimes a wonder why there is so much attention paid to this one issue.
Read moreI seldom encounter anyone who has a positive word to say about their banks. That’s why it is easy to believe that the market is ripe for competition. With the entry of several new banks —...
Read moreIPPs are a solution to Eskom’s woes, not the cause, says Intellidex Chairman Stuart Theobald in his Business Day column today.
Read moreThe formal business sector in South Africa has been subjected to a propaganda onslaught that has damaged it. It has painted business as universally corrupt, led by unrepentant beneficiaries of...
Read moreThe Competition Commission should not stop at the prosecution of bank traders who manipulated the rand exchange rate. It should undertake a full investigation into the competitiveness of foreign...
Read moreThe trend in lending patterns in the banking industry is damaging the transformation of the SA economy, particularly when it comes to home ownership. Since 2008, when banks were hit by a wave of bad...
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Intellidex is a leading research and consulting firm that specialises in capital markets and financial services in Africa.