At the meeting held on October 22, 2018, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Botswana decided to maintain the Bank Rate at 5 percent. The outlook for price stability remains…
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What are savings? To answer this in a very simplistic manner, this is the amount of money that you have left after all your expenses have been paid for. Big or small,…
We have been working around the clock to investigate the security issue we discovered and fixed two weeks ago so we can help people understand what information the attackers may have accessed. Today, we’re…
Some small businesses consider insurance premiums to be an unnecessary expense, yet without insurance cover, they can experience financial difficulties if a peril covered by insurance was to occur. Insurance cover for…
With South Africa hosting the forthcoming BRICS Summit, there has never been a better time to champion the country and the broader continent’s agenda. BRICS serves as a timely reminder that as…
It’s unplannable, unstoppable and inescapable. That sounds like a tsunami, right? Not quite. It’s the 4th Industrial Revolution; a wave of exponential and converging technological progress that is washing over every facet…
The importance of ethics in good corporate governance cannot be overemphasised. Ethics is often viewed as the foundation of compliance and aims to ensure that those it regulates, behave in a manner…
Africa’s fragmented markets and lack of legacy foreign exchange trading infrastructure means that the continent has become a melting pot of fintech activity and innovation. The evolution to electronic foreign currency trading…
The economic environment for private equity investments in Africa is much rosier than a few years ago when the global economy was in a downturn. According to Romain Py, Investment Director…
His Excellency Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi was inaugurated as Head of State of the Republic of Botswana on the 1st of April 2018. This is after the stepping down of Lt. Gen. Dr…