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The shake up at South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, sends a good signal about where Cyril Ramaphosa is taking the country.
Zimbabwe’s new administration has promised to revive the country’s agricultural sector. Here’s what it needs to do.
CFOs spend two-thirds of their waking hours working, according to a survey. The difficulty that companies are having hiring and retaining qualified employees is also at a 20-year high.
In announcing free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma, lobbed a populist hot potato at the ANC elective conference but it’s ordinary people whose fingers will be burnt.
Open banking will require data sharing that will disrupt the monopoly that big banks have on customers’ financial data. It will boost the range of products and deals available to people.
The Chinese government will use its consolidated power to try to reign in some of the biggest problems facing its economy in 2018.
Next generation finance bots are incredibly sophisticated.
Business Briefing: What happened to the price of Bitcoin? The truth behind big bubbles and crashes
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On this episode of Business Briefing we unpack great heights and crashing lows of a bubble and a crash.
An analysis of Bitcoin’s fundamentals shows how much of a bubble its price has inflated to.
A change in South African law promises to protect defaulting home owners from abuse by unscrupulous operators who snap up people’s homes for a song.
Mechanisation of agricultural activity can help many African countries unlock underutilised agricultural potential. But there are serious obstacles which must be removed.
Too much money, too few targets. Is the golden child of the 1980s starting to look long in the tooth?
The federal government is trying to make Australians more financially literate, but it’s using a definition that ignores many political, economic and cultural factors.
Islamic markets were not rocked by the 2007-08 financial as much as conventional markets.
Within the world of cryptocurrencies, ICOs are the way to raise funds – but without any government oversight.
South Africa needs to review its approach to rolling out Bus Rapid Transit systems as the current model is proving to be too expensive and unsustainable.
The proposed loan of Commonwealth money to Adani is on shaky constitutional ground, potentially paving the way for High Court challenge which could change the dynamics of federal-state funding.
Billions are being loaned against some fast depreciating assets. It could end in an almighty car crash.
Banking used to be an engine of social mobility and a generator of secure, satisfying employment for the many gainfully employed in it.
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Professeur au département Gestion, Droit et Finance, GEM
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Professor, Accounting and Finance, City St George's, University of London
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Finance, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
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Principal Lecturer in Finance, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Head of Department of Economics, Finance & Accounting, Brunel University of London