Taxpayers should inform SARS if they have been unemployed for a full year or longer, to avoid being flagged as non-compliant.
Read moreWestern governments and international organisations have started taking real action against the unrelenting spread of the Ebola virus. On Thursday, September 18, the United Nations (UN) Security Council adopted a US-sponsored resolution in […]
Louis Wessels, FSB legal consultant, writes in the latest FSB Bulletin that the debarment of representatives, unlike those involving key individuals, remain a taxing problem for the Regulator. Readers may recall that we […]
The impact of the Protection of Personal Information Act and the Treating Customers Fairly initiative will have a very direct bearing on your business. All intermediaries will, in one way or another, be […]
Last year, we published an article titled Charges in Respect of Investment Policies. I referred the matter to the FSB for comment, particularly in view of the following opinions expressed by the Long-term […]
A notice, published in the Government Gazette on 20 November 2013, formalised the increased fees payable to the FSB in respect of certain functions. Before we compare the new fees to the old, […]
The introduction of the FAIS Act brought a number of additional layers of cost which providers of financial services had to absorb. The majority of the tentacles of this octopus have compliance written […]
Background Up to the end of the previous century, regulation of financial services was by and large left in the hands of the industry itself. The advent of consumerism and money laundering, amongst […]
We are inundated with requests from clients who have mislaid their certificates. Please follow the DIY steps below to get it much quicker. Regulatory Exam candidates who wrote with Moonstone, and passed, can […]
The following posting, by a member of the public, was recently placed on our website in response to an article we published a few months ago: What a pity I didn’t see this […]
One would think that the required relationship between key individuals and their representatives are fairly clear. Where a key individual is required, at this time, to have successfully completed the level 1 regulatory […]
An article entitled Regulation not crippling sector, FSB contends by Gillian Jones in Business Day provides two differing perspectives on this issue. On the one hand, there is the view of Johan van […]
The recent Bester determination by the FAIS Ombud provides guidance on the requirement that a complaint must be lodged within three years. We often understand this to mean from the time the advice […]
Nowhere is the world-wide trend towards digital advertising better mirrored than in the shift in the budget of our own Naspers. People simply find digital access to information so much easier. Why type […]
Legalbrief Today quotes from a Sake24 report which says that hospital groups are delaying the issuing of a White Paper on the National Health Insurance Scheme through their ‘veiled threats of litigation’. It […]
Our extremely popular workshops on binder regulations and outsourcing agreements are now open for Registration. Since the last workshop, a lot more clarity was provided by the Regulator on its interpretation of these […]
The Financial Intermediaries Association (FIA) raised a number of issues in a recent article, published in FAnews. These concerns include: The introduction of a Super Regulator Measures to provide the Regulator with indemnity […]
