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Bank man fried! Cautious investors LOL as USD32 billion crypto asset (sic) crashes

20 November 2022

The multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy filing of Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, has caused ripples across the crypto asset community as individual investors assess the damage to their wallets, and various crypto-based and decentralised finance (Defi) projects take a long, hard look at their long-term sustainability. FTX’s end game sent sections of the global cryptocurrency market into freefall, prompting the expected chorus of “I told you so” from the crypto haters. This “I told you so” refrain is quite common following a significant financial market collapse, with judgement given with scant consideration for fact.

Calls for a cautious approach to crypto asset investing as FSCA brings crypto’s into the regulatory fold

21 October 2022

If you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum like there’s no tomorrow, or if you offer a cryptocurrency or crypto asset exchange, platform or service, then what follows will be of interest to you. You see, the crypto news that South African financial institutions and investors have long been waiting for has finally been announced, by its publication in the Government Gazette: General Notice 1350 of 2022. In this notice, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) confirms that crypto assets will be considered a financial product under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) Act, effective from 19 October 2022, and regulated accordingly.

Client centricity, climate change, cyber & digitalisation ‘top of mind’ for financial intermediaries

07 October 2022

The power of face-to-face networking was on naked display at the 2022 Financial Intermediaries Association of Southern Africa (FIA) Advice Summit, with around 500 intermediaries reconnecting with one another and interacting with the investment and life and non-life insurance brands that supported the event. The fast-paced programme comprised of almost a dozen 20-minute presentations in which financial product providers expanded on some of the key themes relevant to the financial service sector, and more specifically intermediaries. It turns out that client centricity, climate change, cyber and digitalisation are top of mind among brokers, financial advisers and the product providers they transact through.

UK RDR… challenges still exist and legislation still ongoing

27 September 2022

Ten years post the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in the UK, has it moved the dial? While more advisers may be correctly qualified; practice and advice models don’t seem to have shifted. What are the lessons that South Africa can learn?

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