• Current regulatory assessment of South Africa’s FATF action plan progress, critical remaining gaps, and the prevailing enforcement stance.
• Strategic implications of the AML/CFT Amendment Bill and Beneficial Ownership reforms for financial institutions and their compliance programmes.
• How these changes will reshape compliance expectations, risk landscapes, and South Africa’s international standing over the next 12–18 months.
• Key priorities senior executives and their teams need to focus on to build effective, defensible programmes and achieve sustainable success in the post-greylist era.

• Why most current AML/CFT programmes still fail to deliver meaningful reduction in financial crime and sanctions evasion despite heavy investment.
• Designing practical, outcome-based effectiveness measures that go far beyond SAR volumes and basic reporting.
• How effective Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and inter-agency intelligence sharing can actually work in practice.
• Candid discussion on real-world examples of institutions that have achieved measurable results — and the hard lessons from those that haven’t.

Dr Ofentse Theledi – Head AML, CFT and Sanctions – Nedbank CIB
Hilde Shilamba, Compliance & AML Manager, Express Credit – Namibia
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• The reality of sanctions fragmentation—how conflicting regimes and geopolitical alignment shifts are altering risk exposure and operational expectations
• Circumvention 2.0 - The rise of proxy networks, grey‑market structures, beneficial ownership masking, and “dark money” flows that fall outside the traditional AML lens 
• Pre‑emptive risk management - How are firms are adjusting their horizon‑scanning, scenario planning, and decision frameworks to move from monitoring risks to forecasting them
• How can you in your role, be proactive in risk management and scenario planning

Nivan Naidoo, Director  – FTI Consulting
Sanisha Packirisamy, Chief Economist – Momentum Group

• The latest TBML typologies and emerging red flags in African trade corridors that institutions must recognise immediately.
• What SARS Is Seeing: Direct, frontline insights into current detection patterns, recent enforcement cases, and shifting enforcement priorities.
• Advanced tools, techniques, and red-flagging methods
• Practical collaborative approaches between banks, SARS, and other agencies to effectively dismantle TBML supply chains.

Lebogang Thobakgale, Associate Partner - AMLCO – KPMG

• The promise of robust, real-time Customer Due Diligence at onboarding — and why it has become significantly more difficult in today’s high-speed digital environment.
• How sophisticated actors are leveraging deepfakes, synthetic identities, and AI-generated documents to defeat traditional KYC controls.
• Practical approaches, tools, and critical mindset shifts required to build continuous, real-time CDD in the age of GenAI and evolving beneficial ownership requirements.

Rushda Khan – Compliance & AML Manager – Albaraka Bank

• Why fragmented fraud and AML operations continue to create blind spots, duplication, and unnecessary costs for banks and financial institutions.
• Realistic evaluation of integration costs versus efficiency gains, reduced false positives, and improved detection rates.
• What financial institutions can learn from mature models and other international benchmarks.
• How to successfully build unified financial crime functions that deliver better risk outcomes, lower operational costs, and stronger board and regulatory confidence.

Justin Swardt – Director – Synarch
Jeanette Molefe, Senior AML Officer  – PIC
Lebogang Lekoloane, Group Head Financial Crime – Sanlam
Martins Ogbolu – Group Head Executive Compliance – Vodacom

• How weaknesses or perceptions in AML controls are the primary reason correspondent banks are withdrawing or tightening relationships.
• The real cost to trade finance, revenue, and financial inclusion when AML-related de-risking occurs.
• Practical steps AML, Financial Crime, and Compliance teams can take to strengthen controls and rebuild confidence with international correspondents.
• How to meet stringent international AML and sanctions standards without crippling local banking operations and trade.

Willem Kruger, CEO – Willem Consult

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