Trade Conferences International welcomes this year’s sponsors of the Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Southern Africa Conference.

Sponsors include LexisNexis Risk Solutions (Gold), FICO/Bateleur (Bronze), Navigate Compliance (session sponsor) and LexisNexis South Africa (exhibitor). Both FICO/Bateleur Software LexisNexis Risk Solutions are retuning for the fifth time as medal sponsors.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is this years’ gold sponsor. The company provides data and technology solutions for a wide range of industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare and government.

FICO is a leading global provider of integrated IT solutions for governance, risk & compliance (GRC). Based on the Siron® product family, FICO develops and implements standardized and individual solutions against financial and white-collar crime and for risk management and monitoring, analysis, and reporting.

Bateleur Software, who is a bronze sponsor, is a leader in the South African high-end software technology arena and as a Fico certified sales and implementation partner, Bateleur Software successfully implemented and support the Siron solution at various banks, insurance companies, asset manager and a government organisation in Southern Africa.

Navigate is a South African based regulatory advisory and training firm with representative offices across Southern Africa. The company are the official training partner for the International Compliance Association which is the leading professional body for compliance specialists globally.

For over 85 years LexisNexis® South Africa has been at the forefront of legal content and technology. Today, the company provides the most trusted and credible legal and regulatory content and intelligent, digital platforms.

Ryno van Ellewee, MD at TCI, said the participation of sponsors at this conference underlines the importance of the event for AML and financial crime professionals. “Sponsoring allow sponsors to meet nearly 200 attendees at the event, which will be held on 1 & 2 September 2021 at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways. It is both physical and on-line. 

“Sponsorship provides participating companies a platform to be able to increase brand awareness, attain sales leads and get exposure amongst the targeted audience.“ It also allows several networking opportunities with high profile delegates and speakers”, said Ryno.

More than 95% of delegate who  attended last year’s  Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Conference – organised by Trade Conferences International  (TCI) - said yes they will attended the 2017 follow up event.Now back by popular demand is the third installment of one of TCI’s signature events.

Attended by nearly 200 delegates last year, this year’s event - taking place on 08 & 09 November at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg - come with a revamped programme, including crucial topics on sanctions, updated regulation and its impact, and enforcement.

This is the most comprehensive AML event to be held this year!

This two-day event will bring delegates closer to the real issues and real challenges facing banking professional dealing with AML, financial crime, compliance and governance.We have the best speakers covered.

This year’s exclusive speaker panel that will consist of more than 20 top AML experts including Standard Bank, Sasfin, Barclays, Clientele, the Financial Intelligence Centre and many more. Plus voted as best speaker last year as well as Era Gunning, Director from ENS Africa who was voted as the best, is back on the speaker panel!Recent headlines such as the amendments to the FIC Act, fines that certain banks received due to non-compliance  and the fact that the National Treasury is in the process of setting up a committee to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism in line with the FICA , underlines the importance of attending this conference.

Join TCI at this inaugural conference which will provide delegates/attendees with the knowledge to overcome the obstacles to negotiate complete AML compliance.To find out more about the conference and registration procedures contact the Project Managers, Xavier Dipedi on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit http://www.tci-sa.co.za/. You can also contact us on 011 803-1553.

2016’s largest AML gathering for SADC professionals

The direct costs of non-compliance can be high, not forgetting the risk of reputational damage and the loss of business opportunities and confidence incurred. There has been no better time for management and executives to take a leading role in mastering corporate governance and ethical leadership by attending a leading industry forum such as the Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud & Financial Crime Conference.  

The Annual Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud & Financial Crime Conference is the definitive event to attend to update your AML strategy for future developments affecting your operations in Africa.  

Attend what promises to be the definitive AML event of 2016 attended by over 150 senior industry thought-leaders & forward-thinking AML practitioners. Network with participants including representatives from the following organisations and departments : ABSA Regulatory Control & Risk Management * Barclays Bank Big Data, Analytics & Insights  * Barclays Africa Financial Crime Compliance  * Nedbank Retail Risk * Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking * Nedbank Client Onboarding  * Nedbank Private Wealth * Standard Bank Group Compliance Assurance * Standard Bank Group Money Laundering Surveillance * Standard Bank Group Internal Audit * Standard Bank Governance & AML – Rest of Africa * GBS Mutual Bank * Sasfin Bank Forex * Investec Compliance * Discovery Health * South African Reserve Bank * KPMG * Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr * PwC * Hogan Lovells * Firstrand * ENS Africa * ACCPA  * Fircosoft * J2 * SAS * Experian * Frame Consulting * Master Data Managment * Deloitte * EY * IQ Business Group to name a few...

As South Africa’s leading financial conference organisers, Trade Conferences International has gathered a highly qualified array of experts from various financial institutions in South Africa to address attendees at the Anti-Money Laundering Conference 2016.  

Financial crime is of increasing concern to most financial services institutions in SA  

In a recent IOL article; The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) confirmed recent warnings by accounting firm PwC that incidents of financial crime and suspicious transactions , including tax-related crime, fraud and money laundering are on the increase in South Africa.

PwC also placed a firm warning to corporate businesses that financial crime  was not only growing locally but that globally "financial institutions are also facing a sever financial crime expertise talent shortage" and that most organisations lacked enough skilled people to detect financial crime.

The South African Reserve Bank recently imposed fines ammounting to over thirty million rand on non-compliant banks for weaknesses in the banks control measures which has triggered the SA banking industry to review their own anti-money laundering controls.

There has been no better time to attend a leading industry forum such as the Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud & Financial Crime Conference to  engage with thought leadership from a number of leading firms in SA who will be discussing best practices in the fight against financial crime and steer your organisation into a fully compliant trajectory.

What the Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud & Financial Crime Conference will cover:  

The Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud & Financial Crime Conference being hosted in Johannesburg on 9 & 10 November will discuss issues about money laundering controls in the financial sector, it’ll examine and cover a broad range of AML topics such as financial surveillance and risks associated with cyber laundering and digital fraud.

The aim of this conference is to bring together experts in the banking field and other financial sectors to share their knowledge and expertise about policies and procedures designed to ensure effective implementation of anti-money laundering (AML) control measures.

Topics to be addressed

Money laundering and the ripple effect of IFRS

Exploring anti-money laundering processes and control measures

Approaches in customer identification & due diligence

AML monitoring & reporting

AML principles for correspondent banking

Transaction surveillance optimization

Sanction screening

This conference is targeted at professionals dealing with the following:  

risk management * fraud analysis * KYC & due diligence *  AML monitoring and reporting * correspondent banking * exchange control * cyber fraud investigation * policy analysis * information technology * trade finance * financial surveillance * compliance * governance * tax evasion & tax avoidance investigation * auditing * IT risk management * digital fraud * transaction banking * channel fraud investigations * forensics * accounting * customer relationship management   

Some recent SA news headlines that you may have missed:  

R30m fine: Sarb nails 5 banks after money-laundering probe

SA sees rise in mobile bank fraud

Financial crimes on the rise

SA banks look to biometrics to reduce fraud

SABRIC campaign to fight online banking fraud

Financial attacks increase by 16%