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Is PoPI a valuable addition to South Africa’s legislation, asks PBT Group

01 September 2014

PBT Group encourages proactive compliance with PoPI.

The challenge of adopting best practice principles

27 August 2014

Regulation has forced the financial services industry to adopt an approach where it integrates best practice principles into its corporate culture. However, how easy is it to comply with these principles, and are these principles necessarily suitable for the South African market?

Why the Demarcation Regulations must be scrapped

20 August 2014

Government’s second draft of the Regulations that demarcate between Health Insurance Policies and Medical Aid Schemes (the Draft Demarcation Regulations) is in violation of the Constitution and is accordingly unlawful. It is detrimental to the majority of South Africans and discriminatory against the vast number of people who cannot afford medical aid schemes.

POPI – hardly anything is prohibited; but don’t ignore it

13 August 2014

In any situation, insufficient knowledge can lead to over -reactions and people suspecting the worst. This has been the case with POPI, said Elizabeth de Stadler of Novation Consulting. Addressing compliance officers at the recent Compli-Serve SA POPI seminars around the country, she said that, in fact, POPI prohibits hardly anything and businesses should “beware of oversimplified, alarmist views;what you do now you will still be able to do, with only a few adjustments to how you, for instance, interact with customers.”

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If you had to hazard a guess, when do you reckon the COFI Bill will be signed into law?

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2026, as promised 2027 looks more likely Impossible to say More consultation needed

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