The Financial Sector Conduct Authority ("FSCA") and the Prudential Authority ("PA") released a first of its kind report on the use of artificial intelligence ("AI") in the South African financial sector on 24 November 2025...

A person's last Will and testament, best to refer to as a Will, embodies a representation of all that a person is worth. In a more profound sense,...

Africa is an ever-increasing source of growth for international businesses.

It wasn't that long ago that we first wrote about Non-Fungible Tokens ("NFTs"). Now, barely a day goes by without a report on the IP implications of these weird creations.

On 1 June 2023, the Johannesburg High Court published its judgment in the matter of FirstRand Bank Limited t/a Wesbank v Leon Gregory Govendor...

​​SARS is tightening tax collection on cryptocurrency transactions, which makes it important to distinguish between events that will trigger income tax rates or CGT rates.

The South African Reserve Bank's November 2025 draft Directive in respect of specific payment activities makes a subtle but material change to the way "e‑money" is defined and supervised.

In the last two decades, accounting technology has seen remarkable growth, moving from manual ledger books to powerful cloud-based software...

Establishing guidelines for technology use within the business is important as it ensures consistent and secure practices among employees.

In recent articles, we've discussed some of the IP implications of the Metaverse, cryptocurrency, and non-fungible tokens ("NFTs"). But when it comes to securing IP protection, what is really involved?

At its most simplistic level, the metaverse is the convergence of physical, digital and augmented reality. It's all happened so fast.

Fintech in South Africa has undergone significant growth over the last three years or so.

NFT is an acronym for "non-fungible token". Simply put, an NFT is a digitally stored asset in which the subject can vary from art to music and all forms of media in-between.

Africa's fintech sector is evolving from isolated national systems into a regionally connected ecosystem which hope to bring the continent closer.

In the past twelve months, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has handed down four judgments concerning trade marks.

The first decentralised cryptocurrency was created in 2009 and many jurisdictions around the world are now starting to regulate cryptocurrency.

Recently, the Prudential Authority, acting in terms of the Banks Act, 1990, issued a guidance note (G10/2022) to inform banks and bank controlling companies of practices...

The declaration of South Africa's National State of Disaster and associated lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented.

When first confronted with concepts such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs, it took most of us quite some time before we felt it was "safe enough" to make our first online purchase.

Amendments to the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 ("FICA") (defining accountable institutions) were published on 29 November 2022.