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The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) is pleased that the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Act has been signed by the President.
Opinion by Juanita Moolman, partner in the Financial Regulatory Practice at Webber Wentzel. She specialises in long and short-term insurance, investment and pension funds.
With only a few months to go before the office of the Information Regulator is operational and the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) becomes fully enacted, organisations must be aware of the limited time left to comply with the comprehensive requirements of the new legal dispensation.
Regulation has been the industry’s bugbear over the past five years, and this issue will seemingly not disappear as government is finally joining the party and following through in terms of implementation.
The strongest deterrent against FSP compliance missteps is or should be: