Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Southern Africa Conference 2025

Attend this event and find out why labour cost is the highest expense in the fight against money laundering in Southern Africa

Labour costs, including salaries and training, are a significant driver of increased expenses for financial institutions in South Africa in combatting money laundering.

Against this backdrop the 10th installment of the Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Southern Africa Conference is taking place this year on 9 & 10 September at the Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg.

If you are dealing with anti-money laundering, risk and compliance in your organisations this is an event that you cannot miss attending.

Last year nearly 300 people attended the conference.

Join us at the biggest and most popular event of its kind in Africa.

Do you know the following facts about money laundering?

·    Roughly 72% of compliance costs relating to anti-money laundering expenses in banks are people costs, and 28% is technology.

· In South Africa, AML compliance costs have increased by 14% to US $2.05 billion (ZAR 24.3 billion) over two years

·     Collaboration among financial institutions can enhance compliance effectiveness and reduce costs. In the past year

·     35% of financial institutions cite increasing FinCrime regulations as a major driver of compliance cost

·     Over the last 12 months most of South Africa’s banks have received administrative sanctions and resulting fines due to incomplete AML reporting procedures.

Join companies such Nedbank AML *  Praelexis * Nice Actimize * Hollywood Bets *  Searchworks * Sanlam Collective Investments * Capricorn * Datanamix * Santam Group Treasury * Standard Bank Compliance * The Banking Association of South Africa * Symphony AI * Ingenuous * Contactable * Bataleur Software and IMTF * AVI Financial Shared Services and Al Baraka Bank that already registered delegates to attend this event.

If you want to take advantage of the early bird registration fee of R8 000 p.p., register now.

Some of the topics to be addressed

·         Keeping up and staying abreast of all the new money laundering risks coming our way?

·         Latest regulatory challenges, including the draft General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill, 2024

·       Complex regulatory environment & impact of AML non-compliance

·       South Africa's approach to AML risk management

·        Impact of cash-based economies on combatting-money laundering

·         Detection and successful investigations into serious money laundering and terrorist financing cases

·         Utilizing AI to transform financial crime detection and investigation

·         Enforcement & investigations to detect, prevent, and combat money laundering activities

·         Technology solutions for AML/CFT compliance

·         Importance of beneficial ownership reporting in strengthening the anti-money laundering (AML) framework in South Africa

·     Investigating and prosecuting money laundering in serious organised crime

·        Navigating fraud & AML trends in 2025

·         Real-time transaction monitoring

REGISTRATION FEES

Normal registration fee: R 10 500 + VAT = R12 075 p.p.

Early bird registration fee: R8 000 + VAT = R9 200 p.p.

SADC delegates: R 7 000 + VAT = R 8 050 p

Virtual attendance registration fee: R7 700 + VAT = R8 855 p.p.

To register as a delegate on the EARLY BIRD PRICE e-mail Ryno van Ellewee on ryno@tci-sa.co.za or zama@tci-sa.co.za

For more than 23 years, TCI has been a registered and preferred conference organiser for all major banks and financial institutions. Vendor details available upon request.