Schroders soared to the top of the Stoxx 600 on Thursday, hitting a 52-week high, after U.S. fund management giant Nuveen said it would buy the U.K.’s largest standalone asset management. The deal, sized at £9.9 billion ($13.5 billion), will create one of the world’s biggest asset management groups. Nuveen — the investment management arm…
The Forty-Eighth (48th) Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) kicked off Wednesday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, with a strong call for enhanced unity, sustainable development, and collective action to address the continent’s pressing challenges. The two-day meeting, comprising foreign ministers from AU member…
Assessments of election quality have worsened over the past decade. Key findings On average across 38 countries, about three-quarters (74%) of Africans support choosing their leaders through regular, open, and honest elections. This is the majority position in every surveyed country, although support for elections has weakened over the past decade. Strong majorities favour multiparty…
Dr Sebonkile Thaba. Rise SA Business Solutions and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) have announced a redesign of the Industry-Based Supply Chain Management course, shifting it from a predominantly theoretical format towards practical, system-driven training aligned with real business operations. The curriculum update was initiated by Dr Sebonkile Thaba, Deputy Head of Department in the…
Dominic Rey joins Iress as MD of its wealth management business in SA. Financial services software company Iress has appointed Dominic Rey as MD of its wealth management business in South Africa, effective February 2026. This as local wealth firms face tighter regulation, margin pressure and rising client expectations, Iress said in a statement. According…
The World Health Organization (WHO), with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, launched Egypt’s second national training-of-trainers (ToT) programme on mass casualty management (MCM) for hospital emergency units. The initiative, involving WHO’s 3 levels – headquarters, the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and the Egypt Country Office – is part of WHO…
Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — is a Leader in the Enterprise Content Management – Enterprise Data Quadrant Report from Info-Tech Research Group. With the most reviews of any vendor and a composite score of 9.1, Laserfiche was positioned highest for Product Features and Satisfaction. “Laserfiche…
ITWeb Security Summit 2026 takes place in Johannesburg from 2-4 June. OpenText, which positions itself as a global leader in secure information management and enterprise-grade AI, will participate as a Gold sponsor at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026 in Johannesburg (2-4 June), where the conversation will centre on how organisations can defend themselves in an…
Rob Godlonton has been appointed as chief executive officer of IQbusiness. Management and technology consulting firm IQbusiness has concluded its restructuring exercise, which resulted in some employees losing their jobs. As it closes the restructuring chapter, the company also announced some management changes. This sees the appointment of Rob Godlonton as chief executive officer, succeeding…
Anchored in the 30-year Altron-UKG partnership, this timely webinar – led by Riyaat Phillips, senior manager for pre-sales in workforce management at Altron Digital Business, and John Rowzee, principal solution consultant, Europe, the Middle East and Africa at UKG – boiled workforce management down to three moves that turn complexity into impact: Agile scheduling: converting…
