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• Transition finance is funding dedicated to decarbonizing hard-to-abate and emissions-intensive sectors, such as steel and cement manufacturing.
• Companies in these sectors must prepare for an orderly transition, as failure to act will bring immense risk in a decarbonizing world economy.
• Nurturing a thriving transition finance market is critical to mitigating systemic economic and financial risks.

The transition finance market provides a unique opportunity for Africa to leapfrog to low-carbon technologies and business models, which will address climate risks and enhance the continent’s global competitiveness.

Though lacking a universal definition, transition finance refers to funding dedicated to decarbonizing hard-to-abate and emissions-intensive sectors, such as steel and cement manufacturing.

It is key to overcoming financial barriers to sustainability in the industries essential for economic development yet major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Companies in these sectors must prepare for an orderly transition, as failure to act will bring immense risk in a …

• The South African Reserve Bank has established South Africa’s first deposit insurance body, the Corporation for Deposit Insurance (CODI) to protect bank depositors and bring confidence to a resilient financial sector.
• The CODI became a legal entity as of March 24, 2023, as set out in the commencement schedule published by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.
• CODI’s primary responsibilities are to establish, maintain and administer a deposit insurance fund.

South Africa’s first deposit insurance institution, the Corporation for Deposit Insurance (CODI), has been established by the South African Reserve Bank. This move aims to protect bank depositors and increase confidence in the country’s financial sector, especially in the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse in the United States of America, which caused a financial crisis due to liquidity risk. As a result, more regulators have moved to secure depositors’ money.

The CODI has been tasked with establishing, maintaining, and managing …

The question is, what if one day you went to pay for expenses with your card or mobile app and it returned an error message? Or was your service provider that issues your money declared bankrupt? Scary, right?
Recently, customers have been converting their regular traditional money into e-money. Service providers have enabled the transfer of electronic money to banks, from person to person, and for making payments.
For regulators and supervisors that control the protection of consumers’ e-money and digital currencies, coming up with legal bindings and restrictions in the fast-changing sector has become very challenging. These regulators and supervisors must devise ways to protect customers from a possible system failure and ultimately prevent them from losing their funds.…