Central bank using RTGS balances for cheap finance

Business Writer The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it is taking advantage of the significant levels of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) balances in the economy to structure cheap…

Grooming and the unbearable heat

Tafadzwa Zimoyo (The Boss) Business Closet Anyone who grew up in Zimbabwe will agree that October is the hottest month of the year. The hot weather looks set to continue over…

ZSE maintains momentum

Gains on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange continued for the week ending Wednesday 18 October 2017, but were slightly lower than those of the previous week ending 11 October

King Mzilikazi’s Maternal Heritage

History is constantly being rewritten as new evidence comes to light. Here in the first of a new series in the Business Weekly, we discuss a dispute over the origin…

Disruption ahead; should banks be worried?

Kudzanai Sharara Taking Stock The banking industry has gone through more consequential changes in the last two to three years than it did in the preceding thirty years. The modern interaction…

Financial literacy critical for development of agric value chain

Gerald Nyakwava Due to the continued rise in global population, investing in agriculture has become a necessity. The dietary requirements and preferences in frontier and emerging markets

Artists venture into entrepreneurship

Artists have always been known as people who create their works and exhibit it in either museums or galleries. They have been creating pieces that represent their spiritual investment in…

Mamvura’s market minute

Yesterday (October 19) was the 30th anniversary of Black Monday — when Wall Street recorded its largest fall (22,61 percent) since the Great Depression. As with almost every

Gains need reinforcement

Climbing out of the economic and financial hole Zimbabwe was buried in at the end of the hyperinflation era allowed a lot a good things to happen, and regrettably a…

Bitcoin price shoots to $10 000 on local exchange

Jeffrey Gogo The price of Bitcoin (BTC) on the local exchange Golix.io (formerly Bitcoinfundi) has shot 900 percent to $10 000 year-to-date, as investors pile into the digital currency, widely

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