While bitcoin disappointed in 2025, crypto turned the financial world on its head.

In this podcast, Abhishek Saxena, head of strategy and growth at AI research and development firm Sentient, explains what happens to traders relying uncritically on AI trading tools. They can easily go rogue.

The rest obviously still spend money on housing – and a novel rent-to-own model that even street hawkers can afford may be just what the continent needs. Empowa CEO Glen Jordan tells us more.

Gold is heavily overbought, says Carel de Jager of crypto analytics firm Silver Sixpence, while bitcoin faced heavy selling pressure in the latter part of last year – but those pressures appear to be lifting, creating a bullish case for bitcoin in 2026.

Revoking former foreign affairs minister Naledi Pandor's US visa suggests a shift towards personal, targeted pressure, and that's usually how it starts – but the smart move is to prepare, not panic; SA could explore alternative payment networks to reduce dependence on US-dominated financial infrastructure, says Faadil Moti, CEO of…

Spendl Money founder and CEO Greg van der Spuy explains how the SA-born fintech is addressing the crypto spending hurdle by offering a MasterCard debit card and a unified financial platform for easy conversion of digital assets to fiat.