South Africa’s inflation rate reached the mid-point of the central bank’s target range of 3-6% in December — something the Reserve Bank says would allow for flexibility in dealing with price shocks.
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Regulation can help customers and existing financial institutions gain more comfort in cryptocurrencies and drive the adoption of bitcoin. By Angus Brown.
As crypto assets such as bitcoin continue to enjoy popularity among speculative investors, the South African Reserve Bank has kick-started the process for “light regulation” of these products.
Former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan’s new financial services venture, the app-driven Bank Zero, has been integrated with the national payments system and will now begin trial runs ahead of commercial launch.
The South African Reserve Bank, through its fintech unit, has successfully demonstrated a real-world trial of a distributed ledger technology-based wholesale payment system. The Bank has released a report on Project
South Africa’s central bank chooses to call digital currencies such as bitcoin “cyber-tokens” because they don’t meet the requirements to be classified as money. “We don’t use the term ‘cryptocurrency’ because it doesn’t
South Africa’s economic growth could pick up faster than forecast if the right structural reforms are implemented, the Reserve Bank said. That means the economy could expand faster than the 2% for 2020 the central
The South African Reserve Bank said on Tuesday that it will complete a review into cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, before the end of 2018. The objective is to “inform an appropriate policy framework and regulatory regime
Entities involved in South Africa’s national payment system, including BankservAfrica and the Payments Association of South Africa, have begun work on a major architectural and technical overhaul to facilitate