The Absa Africa Financial Markets Index 2023 reveals there has been continued progress in developing financial markets across Africa in the past year, with many AFMI countries taking steps to bolster their resilience against global market shocks. Now in its seventh...

The Experian Business Debt Index (BDI), which reflects the overall health of businesses in the economy, declined in Q2 to 0.445 from a slightly upwardly revised 0.740 in Q1. This decline was less than anticipated considering the better than forecasted outcome for Q2...

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 10,4% in unit terms in 1Q20 compared with the same period a year ago to give a market size of 3,7-million units, but market values...

According to the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 87,8-million smartphones were shipped in China during the second quarter of 2020, down 10,3% year-on-year. Evidently, consumer sentiment was a challenge but this was still a narrower figure compared to the first...

As businesses try to overcome the uncertainty of the past few months, they have been forced to work remotely to maintain business continuity. An IQbusiness survey aims to understand the current landscape in which many South African professionals find themselves....

As digitalisation gathers traction, the role of the chief financial officer (CFO) is changing - indeed the role itself is being digitalised. This is the word from Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, presenting the result of the Sage South Africa CFO 3.0 research....

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is preparing to launch a code of ethics to serve as an exemplar for ethical behaviour in the ICT sector. This was announced by Moira de Roche, non-executive director of the Institute of Information...

South African consumers are sitting on a goldmine - their unused smartphones could be worth literally billions. Estelle Nagel, brand marketing manager at Gumtree, comments: "According to ICASA's State of the ICT Sector report, South Africa's smartphone penetration...

Although South African women are making great strides within the workplace, corporate South Africa has more work to do to effectively transform boardrooms. The Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed deep-rooted inequalities in social, political and economic systems,...

Aviro Health, a start-up supported by the University of Pretoria's (UP) technology incubator and accelerator, TuksNovation, has launched a chatbot-based platform that offers people access to HIV self-testing resources, and the information they need to seek treatment...