The How-To Guide On Inflation
The SARB announced that it was increasing the repo rate by 0.75% to 7% effective 25th November 2022. This is big news, so let's unpack what’s going on.
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Unpacking the news to better understand the impact of current events on your personal finances.
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David and Goliath Retold
Winning the Best Financial Solution at the MTN App of the Year awards, over Shoprite and 22seven felt like a David vs Goliath moment. Read about how we achieved it.
So, Those Markets Hey… Q3 ‘22
This quarter had its fair share (pun intended) of ups and downs due to the oil prices, increased inflation and issues caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Investments Keep Falling (In the Gap)
37.9% of households in South Africa are solely financially headed by females and all this time could be used by women to invest or save more.
Let's Change Our Heritage
Heritage Day celebrates the cultural wealth of our nation. But there are things we need to fix.
The Gender Gap: What’s New?
It's estimated that it would take 136.5 years to close the gender gap instead of the 99.6 years they estimated pre-pandemic. That’s a whole generation more!
So, Those Markets Hey…Q2 ’22
We have just passed the halfway mark of the year, which has brought to a close the second quarter of 2022. Let’s analyse what happened this quarter.
So, Those Markets Hey…Q1 ’22
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, persistent global inflation and an aggressive outlook towards global interest rates has provided plenty of catalysts for volatility during the first quarter.
5 Years in the FinTech Space
In 2017, I was astounded to learn that South Africa was the highest country in the world for the search term “how to invest” on Google trends. Over the past 5 years the financial industry has seen a lot of change.