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Setting achievable business goals

29 Jan 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

By Lee Rossini Setting business goals is a fundamental management activity that provides direction, focus, and a basis for measuring success. In a financial services business, well-defined goals help align strategy with daily operations and long-term growth. Understanding what business ...

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Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Wiid ...

29 Jan 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

Summary of Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) decision involving Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Wiid and Others. The following matter was handed down by the Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) on 22 January 2026: · Standard Bank of ...

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Hawks crackdown on alleged boiler-room syndicates highlights criminal ...

28 Jan 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

The arrest of six alleged bogus investment scammers and twenty-five call-centre agents in Johannesburg on 27 January 2026 highlights the continued enforcement focus on unlicensed investment activity under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 37 of 2002 (FAIS Act). ...

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US sanctions remain a real risk for South ...

28 Jan 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

* Renowned economist Dawie Roodt says that the US could easily impose financial sanctions on SA if it really wanted to damage the country, but individuals are more likely to be targeted. Roodt said that sanctions are a big stick ...

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Living workplace values

By Lee Rossini

Workplace values are the principles and beliefs that guide how a business conducts itself, makes decisions, and treats its people, clients and stakeholders. They define 'how we do things around here' beyond policies and procedures. In a financial services business, where trust, integrity and accountability are fundamental ...

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Setting achievable business goals

By Lee Rossini

Setting business goals is a fundamental management activity that provides direction, focus, and a basis for measuring success. In a financial services business, well-defined goals help align strategy with daily operations and long-term growth. Understanding what business goals are, how they differ from objectives, and how to ...

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Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Wiid and Others (enforceability of personal and trust guarantees, rejecting public-policy and trustee-authority defences)

Free State High Court (Bloemfontein)

The following matter was handed down on 22 January 2026:

  • Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Applicant) v Wiid and Others (Respondents) – (case number: 2739/2025)

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Trusts – trustees – enforcement of guarantees – distinction between unanimous-decision trusts and majority-decision trusts – ...

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https://jutacomplinews.co.za/story/setting-achievable-business-goals/By Lee Rossini

Setting business goals is a fundamental management activity that provides direction, focus, and a basis for measuring success. In a financial services business, well-defined goals help align strategy with daily operations and long-term growth. Understanding what business goals are, how they differ from objectives, and how to set achievable goals is essential for sustainable performance.

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