CEO business confidence in SA back to pre-Covid levels

CEO business confidence in SA back to pre-Covid levels

CEOs of the world’s largest businesses are increasingly optimistic about the outlook for their own business and, despite the Delta variant slowing down the ‘return to normal’, their confidence in both the global and local economy has returned to...

Global energy storage industry primed to treble annual installations

The global energy storage market continues to prove resilient to the impacts of Covid-19 and supply constraints for Li-ion batteries and will enter a prolonged period of growth this year, with annual installations reaching more than 30 GW by 2030 – up 250% from...

Massive growth for mobile contactless payments

A new report from Juniper Research has found that transaction volumes for mobile payments will grow from 26-billion in 2021 to 49-billion in 2023; representing a growth of 92%. Growth in mobile contactless transaction volumes will significantly exceed contactless card...

TymeBank in strategic partnership with TFG

TymeBank has entered into a strategic partnership with retail giant TFG (The Foschini Group) that will see the introduction of TymeBank financial products and services both instore and on digital platforms for the benefit of TFG’s more than 26-million customers...

Robust growth ahead for emerging device categories

The total value of three emerging categories of products – augmented and virtual reality headsets, smart home devices, and wearables – is expected to reach $369,6-billion by the end of this calendar year and swell to $524,9-billion by the end of 2025...

Passport power ranking shows widest ever gap in travel freedom

The latest results and research from the Henley Passport Index show how proliferating barriers to entry over the past 18 months of the pandemic have resulted in the widest global mobility gap in its 16-year history. Based on exclusive data from the International Air...