Payment fraud is on the rise
KPMG has noted a new trend in relation to business fraud which poses a serious risk of significant financial loss. Lucas Chiloane, manager in Forensic Technology at KPMG and Roy Waligora, partner at KPMG, write that a payments fraud scheme is on the rise exposing...Electricity pricing challenges SA business
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) has confirmed that the electricity price increase for 2014/15 will be 7% from 1 July 2014. In light of the continuing rise in energy tariffs, it is becoming increasingly important for enterprises and business...Online tourism set for massive growth
Online tourism is growing in importance, and helping to drive tourism to Africa. “With over 59% of travel now being researched, booked and bought online, attributing to over $400-billion in travel sales, ensuring that the African tourism sector is partaking and...Innovators set their companies apart
Leading innovators in the technology, media and telecoms (TMT) industries succeed by identifying and taking action on six key areas that can set their companies apart from the competition. This is according to a report issued by PwC, “Clearing the innovation hurdles:...Data location irrelevant in post-Snowden era
The physical location of data is becoming increasingly irrelevant and will be replaced by a combination of legal location, political location and logical location in most organisations by 2020, according to Gartner. “The number of data residency and data sovereignty...