Explore how the prime rate influences consumer loans like mortgages, versus the repo rate's role in managing the money supply ...

The Reserve Bank lends money to banks at the ‘repo rate’, the banks add 3.5% to create the ‘prime rate’ – which we hear when ...

South African banking customers have been paying a prime rate of the repo rate plus 3.5% since 2001. Is it time for a change?

South Africa is reviewing the main reference rate commercial banks use to price trillions of rands of loans to clients.

South Africa is reviewing the main reference rate commercial banks use to price trillions of rand of loans to clients.

As the central bank considers changing the prime interest rate, the financial sector is struggling to explain the ...

The Competition Commission of South Africa is investigating the prime lending rates, sparking mixed reactions from industry ...