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Manyama v Pension Fund Adjudicator & Others (time ...

04 Mar 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

The following matter was handed down by the Financial Services Tribunal on 2 March 2026: Manyama v Pension Fund Adjudicator & Others Case number: FSP75/2025 Key words Pension funds – Complaint lodged 15 years after withdrawal benefit became due – ...

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FIC tightens oversight of crypto transfers

04 Mar 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

Business Day reports that the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has issued a directive requiring crypto asset service providers to strengthen monitoring of both domestic and cross-border crypto asset transfers in line with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards. The directive ...

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Cyber resilience under pressure: From executive hacking to ...

03 Mar 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

By Compli-Serve Recent events locally and abroad send a clear message: cyber risk is no longer an IT issue. It is governance, executive exposure and operational resilience rolled into one. Two developments illustrate this sharply. One involves alleged hacking of ...

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Banxso finally wound up: Court finds insolvency, illegality ...

03 Mar 2026 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

The Western Cape High Court has confirmed that Banxso should be wound up, bringing to an end months of legal wrangling over whether the company was insolvent and whether it had operated unlawfully. Moneyweb reports that the judgment, delivered yesterday ...

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FIC tightens oversight of crypto transfers

Business Day reports that the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has issued a directive requiring crypto asset service providers to strengthen monitoring of both domestic and cross-border crypto asset transfers in line with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards.

The directive requires service providers to obtain, retain and transmit information on ...

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Cyber resilience under pressure: From executive hacking to identity scams

By Compli-Serve

Recent events locally and abroad send a clear message: cyber risk is no longer an IT issue. It is governance, executive exposure and operational resilience rolled into one.

Two developments illustrate this sharply. One involves alleged hacking of senior government leadership in South Africa. The other concerns large-scale ...

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