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South Africa and the Region: Economic Policy, Financial System, Financial Institutions, Investment, Markets and Regulation

The Guide to the Southern African Financial Services Industry

FSF brings you information on financial services, economic policy, financial institutions, financial markets, financial regulation and payment systems in South Africa and elsewhere.
        
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Mandelson frowns on America's unilateral financial reforms  Friday, 5 March 2010

Peter Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary, criticised America’s unilateral financial reforms as misguided and insisted that Britain would be the key driver of the global regulatory overhaul.

Mandelson in a speech he said Barack Obama’s proposals to ban proprietary trading and limit banks’ liabilities “came as a bit of a surprise” to those working on the G20’s financial reform agenda.

“It’s important that we keep the multilateral process firmly on track,” Mandelson said. “However, I think President Obama’s proposals can actually give that process an even greater legitimacy and urgency.”

Unilateral action on financial regulation risked creating an uneven playing field, Mandelson said.

“Part of the dangerous dynamic of the last three decades has been a tendency of financial jurisdictions to underbid each other in market regulation,” he said.

Speaking to reporters after the event, however, he was sceptical about the President’s attempt to limit banks’ size and trading activities.

“Trying to apply sweeping rules about the range, content and structure of banking entities’ activities is too difficult to do,” he said. “It’s the principle and practice of regulation that you need to focus on, not the size and range of banks.”

The Senate Banking Committee is in the final stages of drafting a US Financial Reform Bill.  [...]

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Financial institutional structure
Following recent statements by the ANC and its Alliance partners, we wish to facilitate discussion on the South African financial system and its institutional infrastructure - Treasury; Reserve Bank; Financial Services Board; banks, etc.; monetary policy; regulation; stability; payment systems; and nationalisation.
Zumanomics: Which way to shared prosperity in South Africa? Challenge for new government
Editor Raymond Parsons.
South Africa stands at an historical political and economic crossroad in 2009. Globally the widespread world recession has serious consequences for the slowing South African economy.
Financial news from South African online news publications.
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The Economist's Big Mac index seeks to make exchange-rate theory more digestible. It is arguably the world's most accurate financial indicator to be based on a fast-food item.
Property analyses are in the Assets and investments section
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March 2010

Standard Bank's DRC: Annual Economic Outlook   (PDF) is available, it is indexed in The Africa region section.

February 2010

Rand Merchant Bank's Africa Quarterly: Getting back on track, is available, it is indexed in The Africa region section.
Standard Bank's Uganda: Annual Economic Outlook   (PDF) is available, it is indexed in The Africa region section.
The 2010 National Budget documentation is now available, it is indexed in the Economic information section
Standard Bank's annual report The Economy in 2010 (PDF 2,4 MB) is available, it is indexed in the Economic information section
Standard Bank's Zambia: Annual Economic Outlook  (PDF) is available, it is indexed in The Africa region section.
The first quarter Absa Housing Review is available (PDF), it is indexed in the Assets & investments section.
An updated Standard Bank Residential Property Gauge is available (PDF), it is indexed in the Assets & investments section.
The Nedbank Guide to the Economy is now available, it is indexed in the Economic information section.

January 2010

The [SA] Monetary Policy Committee decided to leave the repo rate unchanged at 7,0 per cent per year, see the latest Statement of the Monetary Policy Committee available from the Reserve Bank, it is indexed in the System & markets section. Next meeting on 24 & 25 March 2010.
Absa provides its Quarterly Economic Perspective, it is indexed in the Economic information section.
The National Planning Commission has revised its green paper on national strategic planning, see SA Financial Institutional Structure.
The SA Reserve Bank/IFC - The Proceedings of the SARB/IFC seminar on “Economic and financial convergence en route to regional economic integration: experience, prospects and statistical issues amidst global financial turmoil” are now available, they are indexed in The Africa region section.

December 2009

The SA Reserve Bank December Quarterly Bulletin is now available, it is indexed in the Economic information section.
An updated Standard Bank Residential Property Gauge is available (PDF), it is indexed in the Assets & investments section.

November 2009

The SA Reserve Bank has released its biannual Monetary Policy Review: November 2009, it is indexed in the System & markets section.
The [SA] Monetary Policy Committee decided to leave the repo rate unchanged at 7,0 per cent per year, see the latest Statement of the Monetary Policy Committee available from the Reserve Bank, it is indexed in the System & markets section. Next meeting on 25 & 26 January 2010.
Standard Bank's Macroeconomic Forecast (PDF) is available, it is indexed in the Economic information section.
The SA Reserve Bank has released its Financial Stability Review: September 2009, it is indexed in the Regulation & legislation section.
An updated Standard Bank Residential Property Gauge is available (PDF), it is indexed in the Assets & investments section.

October 2009

Standard Bank has produced a paper on the SA Medium Term Budget Policy Statement and Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF October 2009 (PDF), it is indexed in the Economic information section.
The fourth quarter Absa Housing Review is available (PDF), it is indexed in the Assets & investments section.
Standard Bank's Mauritius: Mid-year Economic Outlook  (PDF) is available, it is indexed in The Africa region section.
The [SA] Monetary Policy Committee decided to leave the repo rate unchanged at 7,0 per cent per year, see the latest Statement of the Monetary Policy Committee available from the Reserve Bank, it is indexed in the System & markets section. Next meeting on 16 & 17 November 2009.
Standard Bank's Mozambique: Mid-year Economic Outlook  (PDF) is available, it is indexed in The Africa region section.
Standard Bank's Macroeconomic Forecast (PDF) is available, it is indexed in the Economic information section.
An updated Standard Bank Residential Property Gauge is available (PDF), it is indexed in the Assets & investments section.
The IMF provides its biannual Global Financial Stability Report, it is indexed in Regulation & legislation section.

Choice, not fate the life and times of Trevor Manuel: Biography of Trevor Manuel
Pippa Green
Trevor Manuel has been South African Minister of Finance since June 1996. He was born in Cape Town in January 1956 the son of an employee of the Cape Town City Council. He was involved in the founding of the UDF in the Western Cape and subsequently became the regional secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF). Between 1985-1990 he was repeatedly detained without trial or placed under house arrest, spending a total of 35 months in detention. In 1992 Manuel became head of the ANC's Department of Economic Planning. After the April 1994 elections Manuel was appointed Minister of Trade Industry and in March 1996 he was appointed Minister of Finance
  

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