Che Sidanius is the Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs at LSEG. His role is to identify regulatory changes and lead programs of action with the sole purpose of enhancing the fight against financial crime more effective and delivering the best possible outcome for the industry. Together with the World Economic Forum and Europol, he’s the founder of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and Co-Chair of the B20’s Integrity and Compliance Taskforce.

Prior to joining LSEG, his work experiences include being a Senior Advisor to the Bank of England's Financial Stability Directorate and previously a Senior Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. His most notable awards included receiving the Presidential Award for managing the 2007-09 Financial Crisis and a driving force behind Refinitiv’s Impact Company of the year award in 2019 and contributor to the same award in 2021.

Che received his Master’s in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley in California.

Gerald Byleveld is a Chartered Accountant and senior financial crime and risk executive with more than 25 years’ experience in banking, financial services, and professional services. He previously served as Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) at Investec, where he was responsible for the firm’s anti‑money laundering and counter‑terrorist financing framework, regulatory engagement, and financial crime risk oversight.

Gerald has extensive experience advising senior leadership, boards, and regulators on governance, financial crime risk management, operational risk, and internal controls. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles in operational risk and internal audit at Investec and worked in risk advisory with KPMG in London.

Beyond his executive roles, Gerald contributes actively to industry initiatives. He served as a Councillor of the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA), sitting on its Council, Risk Committee, and Audit Committee. He also led an expert working group through the South African Anti‑Money Laundering Integrated Taskforce (SAMLIT), which investigated financial flows linked to illegal wildlife trafficking, and co-authored two industry reports to strengthen the detection of environmental crime within the financial sector.

Gerald is a frequent speaker on financial crime, governance, and regulatory collaboration. His work on combating illegal wildlife trafficking has included engagement with global conservation stakeholders.

Henri Schomper is based in South Africa and is responsible for Law Enforcement Outreach and Investigations on the continent of Africa, for Western Union.

He obtained his Law Degree in 1988 and started his prosecuting career in January 1991 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was promoted to and served as the Senior Prosecutor for the city of Germiston, east of Johannesburg between January 1997 and March 1999.

He started his international career in April 1999, when he joined MasterCard Worldwide in Dubai as the Director Security and Risk Management Middle East and Africa, where he was responsible for credit card fraud investigations, law enforcement, bank and merchant training as well as fraud management and audits of bank fraud monitoring systems. During this period, he was an accredited as a trainer by Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

He joined Western Union and returned to South Africa in 2014 as the Senior Manager, Law Enforcement and External Partners. In this position he supports, assists and advises Law Enforcement, Prosecuting Authorities, Judiciary, FIU’s / FIC’s / FIA’s and NGOs throughout the African continent with investigations, prosecutions, and financial intelligence. He also conducts regular training seminars on “following the money” and “illicit money flows” in the Middle East, Levant, and Africa, in conjunction with mostly the UNODC, UNCCT/UNOCT, Civipol, the EU, The World Bank, and other entities with interests in Counter Terrorism and the detection, prevention and response to Human Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, Wildlife trafficking, Money Laundering and Fraud.

Henri is a member of South African Anti Money Laundering Integrated Taskforce (SAMLIT) on Wildlife Trafficking, Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, Terrorist Financing, as well as the SAMLIT AML/CFT Remitter Task Team and the Western Union New/Emerging Typologies – Wildlife Trafficking Working Group.

Ruth Helena Alves da Mota is a Content Partnership Manager at LSEG Risk Intelligence, where she helps coordinate public-private partnerships that leverage financial intelligence to combat crimes that harm people and the planet. A subject matter expert in human trafficking and modern slavery, she serves on the Expert Working Group of the South African Anti-Money Laundering Integrated Taskforce (SAMLIT) and contributed to its first report, as well as the second report currently being launched.

Her work spans a broad range of financial crime issues, with a particular focus on human exploitation and other exploitative crimes. Ruth is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Nosheen Alli is an experienced financial crime and compliance professional with over 15 years in the financial services industry. She specialises in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), fraud management, internal investigations, and regulatory compliance. Currently serving as Anti-Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Yoco Technologies, she is responsible for overseeing AML/CFT compliance frameworks and financial crime risk management.

She has held senior AML and fraud-related roles at Grindrod Bank, AlBaraka Bank, and Absa Bank. Her expertise includes transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, investigations, risk assessments, policy development, and stakeholder engagement. Nosheen is recognised for her strong leadership, analytical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to work effectively under pressure. She is passionate about driving compliance excellence, strengthening financial crime controls, and contributing to a high-risk and ethics culture within organisations.

20+ years experience working in Risk Management and anti-financial crime roles in markets across the world. Previous roles include Head of Strategy for Risk Intelligence at the London Stock Exchange Group and senior roles at LexisNexis and Moody’s Analytics. Currently leading the private sector markets for TRM Labs across APAC and EMEA, delivering AI enabled Blockchain Analytics and AI Invetsigative tools for anti-financial crime.

Manet is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting with more than 22 years of experience in anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CFT), sanctions compliance, exchange control, and financial crime risk management. She has co-authored the annual Money Laundering and Terror Financing: Law and Compliance publication in South Africa since 2018, published by LexisNexis under the leadership of Professor Louis de Koker.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Manet held senior financial crime compliance roles at Barclays Africa, Absa Corporate & Investment Banking, KPMG Forensic, and Financial Crime Intelligence (FCI), which joined forces with FTI Consulting in 2019. Her experience spans banking, insurance, asset management, fintech, trade finance, and regulatory sectors across Africa, the UK, the UAE, and the United States.

Manet regularly advises organisations on AML/CFT frameworks, sanctions compliance, financial crime investigations, regulatory remediation, exchange control, and trade-based money laundering risks. She is a frequent speaker at local and international financial crime conferences and delivers specialised training to financial institutions, regulators, and industry professionals across multiple jurisdictions.

She was also a founding board member of the ACAMS South Africa Chapter and remains an active contributor to the advancement of financial crime compliance practices across the region.

Graham is currently an Associate Director in Deloitte’s Strategy, Risk, and Transaction team and brings over 18 years of experience within the financial services sector, both in South Africa and internationally.

He is a subject matter expert in AML, CFT and Sanctions compliance and has been instrumental in shaping firm-wide best practices and advancing regulatory standards across multiple jurisdictions. He has developed numerous AML programmes in financial services, telecommunications, retail and government.

He combines deep regulatory understanding and strong IT controls to deliver solutions that are both robust and innovative. He has been seconded to New York, contributed to international engagements, and regularly lectures postgraduate students at Wits University. Graham currently serves as the Director of Programming on the Board of the ACAMS- South Africa Chapter, which underscores his commitment to ongoing professional development and industry capacity-building. 

Genevieve Sias is an accomplished Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) professional with more than a decade of experience in financial crime risk management, regulatory compliance, and complex investigations within the South African banking sector.

As the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and Manager of AML Investigations at Capitec Bank, she leads specialist investigations into complex money laundering, terrorism financing, fraud, and other financial crime matters. She is responsible for regulatory reporting, law enforcement engagement, financial crime risk mitigation, and the oversight of high-risk investigations that support both strategic and operational crime prevention initiatives.

Prior to joining Capitec, Genevieve practised law and held various compliance and financial crime roles at Absa Bank, including leading the Business Banking KYC Onboarding function. Throughout her career, she has developed extensive expertise in customer due diligence, financial crime investigations, regulatory engagement, and risk-based compliance frameworks.

Genevieve actively collaborates with industry bodies, law enforcement agencies, regulators, and public-private partnerships such as SAMLIT to strengthen South Africa's response to financial crime. She is passionate about advancing the detection and disruption of money laundering, human trafficking, organised crime, and other illicit financial activities through innovation, intelligence-led investigations, and industry collaboration.

Carina Coetzee is a Senior Public Prosecutor at the Sexual Offences & Community Affairs (SOCA) unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). She is the Co-Chairperson of the NICTIP (National Intersectoral Committee on Trafficking in Persons) under the National Prosecuting Authority.

Ms Coetzee had successfully prosecuted many cases in the High and Regional Courts of sexual offences, trafficking in persons, where children were victims of abuse and/or neglect, and commercial offences that included so-called 419 scams.

Ms Coetzee trains prosecutors, members of SAPS and other relevant stakeholders on a national level on sexual offences and trafficking of persons, including social context relating to victimisation and perpetration of these offences. Ms Coetzee also trains medical professionals, social workers and psychologists on sexual offences, GBVF offences, non-accidental baby injuries and expert evidence. 

Ofhani Munyai serves as a strategic and operational intelligence analyst at the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC). Ofhani joined the FIC in January 2020 as graduate trainee within Investigation Support Services in Monitoring and Analysis division and progressed to her current role. Within Investigation Support Services, she was involved in supporting complex court driven analysis where she worked closely with law enforcement partners and other stakeholders to combat organised and commercial crimes.

With her enthusiasm and passion for data analysis, she joined the Monitoring and Analysis - Intelligence Support Services, Strategic and Operational Intelligence team to expand her skills and to contribute proactively to identify crime patterns, trends and related red flags associated with financial crime.

She is responsible for the development of strategic intelligence products which addresses the complexities surrounding current crime trends, patterns and themes, which leads to a more enhanced prediction of future criminal behaviours, and production of targeted intelligence for strategic and operational decision-making purposes.

Ofhani holds a BSc degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Honours degree in Applied Mathematics, Certificate in Money laundering control, ACFE certificate and She is also a certified SAS Base Programmer.

Rosemary Manabe is a Senior Strategic Intelligence Analyst with a decade of experience in financial crime and compliance. In her role at the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), she specialises in developing strategic intelligence products and sector reports, conducting large-scale data analysis, and engaging with stakeholders. Her responsibilities include analysing financial flows and identifying emerging trends, typologies, red-flag indicators, and geographic areas of concern. She also delivers training and presentations to internal FIC audiences and external stakeholders.

Rosemary holds a qualification in commercial studies from the University of Johannesburg and is currently pursuing a second degree in law through the University of South Africa. She has also obtained internationally recognised certifications in anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), including the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) credential.

Before joining the FIC, Rosemary spent six years in the private sector, where she held positions including Senior AML/CFT Investigator, Compliance Officer with responsibility for Botswana, Eswatini, and the United Kingdom, and AML Assistant. These roles involved working with multinational, highly leveraged corporations and strengthened her expertise in financial crime investigations, regulatory compliance, and cross-border risk management. Rosemary brings extensive AML/CFT knowledge and practical experience to her work. A distinguishing strength is her ability to interpret complex datasets and multifaceted situations, translate them into clear insights, and produce high-value intelligence products and reports that support informed decision-making.