Transactional Crimes – Risks within the payments landscape in South Africa
LSEG – Risk Intelligence is delighted to invite you to our upcoming in person Risk Revealed 2024 event series titled: Transactional Crimes – Risks within the payments landscape in South Africa.
Join us on Thursday, 19 September as we bring together leading opinion leaders and our team of LSEG experts as they deep dive into topical discussions surrounding:
- South Africa and our status on the grey list
- The complexity of global sanctions
- The evolution of digital fraud
Event info
DATE: Thursday, 19 September 2024
TIME: 08:30 - 14:30
LOCATION: The Bay Hotel
ADDRESS: 69 Victoria Rd, Camps Bay, Cape Town, 8001 (MAP) 09:00 - 09:10
Opening and welcome to Risk Revealed South Africa by Vikas Jain, Director of Account Management, LSEG Risk business
09:10 - 09:20
Keynote address by Adv Xolisile Khanyile, Chair of the Africa Chapter, Coalition to Fight Financial Crime
09:20 - 09:30
Grey listing
- Supervision, compliance and actions taken
Presenter: Ece Kugu, Government Relations, LSEG
09:30 - 10:10
Panel discussion - How to deal with the complexity of sanctions
Moderator: Ernst Pienaar, Group Director of Research, LSEG
Panelists:
Inna Podsekina, World-Check Sanctions Research Manager, LSEG
Steven Powell, Head of Forensics, ENS South Africa
Dr. Natia Vasicek, VP Of Operations and Compliance, Paytec
10:10 - 10:30
The digital evolution of Fraud
- Fraud is the biggest financial crime today in the world, LSEG has the analysis
Presenter: Ruth Helena Alves da Mota (CAMS), Content Partnership Manager, LSEG
10:50 - 11:00
Combating Fraud Using AI
- AI use cases in combatting fraud, adoption strategies and best practices to promptly detect fraud
Presenter: Tumi Nomlomo, Senior Business Solutions Manager, SAS
11:00 - 11:20
Threat Financing
- A review of threat financing and it's connection to sanctions
- South Africa's grey listing and an overview of some of the most recent threat financing typologies
Presenter: Chantel Breedt, Customer Learning Manager, LSEG
11:20 - 12:00
Panel discussion: Beneficial Ownership
- The complexity of identifying beneficial ownership
- The challenges and the cost associated in comparison to the risk mitigation benefits
Moderator: Vishal Relhan, Sales Director - Customer, Third Party Risk & Risk Managed Services, LSEG
Panelists:
Ece Kugu, Government Relations, LSEG
Amit Dayal, Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Rovika Poole, Senior Manager - Data Analytics, Deloitte
Yiannis Gerakaris, Head - Financial Crime Intelligence Unit, FNB
Evita Situma, Senior Specialist: Financial Crime Compliance, Discovery Bank
12:20 - 12:35
Enhanced Due Diligence
- An Overview of EDD requirements and how to effectively address EDD
Presenter: Indira Uchoa-Naude, Proposition Manager - Risk, LSEG
12:35 - 13:00
PPP: Public Private Partnerships
- A view of LSEG’s global collaborations and partnerships, such as special projects for capacity building
Presenter: Ece Kugu, LSEG Risk Intelligence Government Relations, LSEG
13:00 - 13:20
Financial Instruments Screening
- Securities screening that reveals potential risk related to Issuers placed on Explicit or Narrative Sanctions
Presenter: Felix Mulaji, Senior Solution Consultant, LSEG
13:20 - 13:40
Update from LSEG’s Research team
- Overview of the most common financial crimes in SA and across Africa found during research
Presenter: Joe Zanga, Senior Research Analyst, LSEG
13:40 - 14:00
Fireside chat: Exploitative crimes convergence and the impact on sustainability
- The latest on green crimes and human trafficking in the African continent and beyond and how obliged entities play a key role in stopping the illicit flows
Moderator: Lee-Anne Kotze, Risk Proposition Sales, LSEG
Presenters:
Ruth Helena Alves da Mota, Content Partnership Manager, LSEG
Evita Situma, Senior Specialist: Financial Crime Compliance, Discovery Bank
Meggan Williams, Research Manager, LSEG
14:00 - 14:20
Sustainable Investing: Broadening your perspective beyond ESG
- The growth of the Green Economy; approaches to fully identify and manage the risks and opportunities through data
- How to ensure a broad perspective on all sustainability related metrics to help minimize greenwashing risk or missed opportunities
Presenter: Grant Molyneaux, Sales Director - Investment Bank, LSEG
14:20 - 14:30
Closing remarks by Anitha Naidoo, Account Director, LSEG