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Universal access to energy is one of the priorities of the Government of Mozambique. To achieve this goal, the Government's actions must be complemented by private investment, a fact that has been conditioned by unattractive legal barriers to investment in this sector. In..
On 22 September 2023, the Minister for Industry and Trade issued detailed procedures for submission of information of Beneficial Ownership (BO) vide the Business Names (Beneficial Ownership) Regulations, 2023, GN No. 714 of 2023 (the Regulations).
While the Amendment Act represents a significant stride in Kenya’s efforts to mitigate climate change impacts and develop a robust carbon market, there are certain gaps and shortcomings within the Amendment Act that may require further refinement or clarification.
In 2021, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its Mutual Evaluation Report of South Africa, which summarised the effectiveness of South Africa’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing measures.
On 1 September 2023, the Minister for Industry and Trade (the Minister) issued the Business Licensing Regulations, 2023 (the New Regulations), vide the Government Notice No. 626 of 2023.
Data breaches are now a regular occurrence in the modern data-driven and digital global
economy that the world has now become. A number of organisations have suffered data
breaches in the course of their operations with differing degrees of seriousness. ..
The Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning (the National Treasury) has released the Medium–Term Revenue Strategy MTRS or the Strategy) for the financial years 2024/25 – 2026/27. The newly released MTRS is dubbed “An Approach for Enhancing Domestic Revenue.” T..
The regulator of the Nigerian financial system, the Central Bank of Nigeria (“CBN”), on June 20, 2023, issued the Customer Due Diligence Regulations (“Regulations”). This is ostensibly as a reaction to Nigeria being name-checked by the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”)..
Financing company operations often involves borrowing from commercial lenders, private lenders and even the company’s own shareholders. Whether or not formal documentation of the loan is done is determined by the company size, the loan size and tenure, whether the company..
