Monocle Podcasts

Join Patrick Byrne, head of Human Resources at Monocle, as he shares his insights on what it takes to pursue a career in management consulting and how we at Monocle strive to create a culture of excellence. We unpack the skills and attributes that can get your foot in the door and the importance of continual learning and development.

Join Guy Wilding, our Research Manager, who discusses the latest Monocle insights publication regarding the regulator’s ambition to modernise the payment ecosystem of South Africa. We discuss South Africa’s reliance on cash transactions, its impact on retail banking and what the Project Future initiative means for traditional payment practices and stakeholders.

As one of the sponsors of RiskMinds 2020, the largest international risk conference in the world – which took place from the 7th to 11th of December – we were able to engage and share risk management insights with other captains of industry from across the globe. The tumultuous year drove increased focus around the ongoing credit and operational risks within the financial services sector, resultin...

In this podcast we are joined by Jaco Smit, one of our Directors, regarding the importance of customer complaint management in the financial sector. We also discuss the impact of social media and how the Conduct Standard for Banks aims to embed a proactive, customer-focused complaint framework within South African banks. In 2018, Snap, the company that operates the social media app Snapchat, lost...

Join us for this weeks Monocle Current Account Podcast, where we unpack how the SARB’s 100-page Financial Stability Review paints a cautionary picture of South Africa’s financial system’s ability to withstand future shocks, following the impact of the coronavirus. Whilst financial institutions, in particular systemically important financial institution (SIFI) banks, have emerged from the lockdown...

Join us for the Monocle Current Account Podcast where we unpack the full history of the1MDB scandal, how the global financial system enabled it all, and what might possibly be done in the future to prevent such an event from happening again. We also take a look at what has been making financial and regulatory headlines recently including anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing public...

Welcome to our discussion on the UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s Dear CEO letter regarding the reliability of regulatory returns. Catherine Claxton, Senior Executive at Monocle, explains what a Dear CEO letter is, how banks in the UK need to prepare for the requirements set out in this particular letter and what the digital landscape of regulatory returns may look like. Reporting, specificall...

Listen to our latest Monocle Insights Podcast where Johan du Pisanie, Senior Manager at Monocle, unpacks the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on banks and their impairments under IFRS 9. In our latest discussion, Johan takes us through the steps taken by banks and regulators to protect customers and the economy during the pandemic. We explore the impact of the pandemic on banks’ IFRS 9 impairments...

In our discussion, Celest unpacks the key lessons learned that will help insurers to design and build a fit-for-purpose IFRS 17 solution that meets the technical requirements for compliance whilst creating a stable and long-term data and process architecture.