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SA’ no. 1 Anti-Money Laundering professionals’ gathering – TCI’s AML & Financial Crime Conference – returns!

MyPR: SA’ no. 1 Anti-Money Laundering professionals’ gathering – TCI’s AML & Financial Crime Conference – returns!:


This annual event, which is taking place on 23 & 24 October 2019 at the Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg, is happening for the fifth time this year.

Collectively the 2016, 2017 & 2018 AML & Financial Crime Conferences have attracted over 500 AML and financial crime professionals from around Southern Africa.

30 speakers presenting, 5 international keynote addresses and 6 sessions

attending this event will give all delegates a chance to get updated on the challenges, opportunities and threats relating to anti-money laundering.

Attending also offers excellent networking opportunities with sponsors, exhibitors, speakers, and fellow delegates.

Some members of the expert speaker panel

• Nick Maxwell, Head: Future of Financial Intelligence sharing programme, RUSI (UK)
• Pieter Alberts, Monitoring and Analysis, Financial Intelligence Centre, South Africa
• Pieter Smit, Executive Manager: Legal & Policy, Financial Intelligence Centre, South Africa
• Yurika Pistorius, Head of Compliance, Clientèle
• Francois Combrinck, AML/CFT Technology Specialist, FrameAML
• Daniel Saksenberg, Founder, Emerge Analytics
• Johan Hetzel, Money Laundering Control Officer, Tyme Digital
• Sean Stander, Head: AML Strategy, Risk Integration and CDD Advisory , Standard Bank
• Dr Wynand Spruyt, Center of Business Law , University of Johannesburg
• Ilze Calitz, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Monivation
• Krevania Pillay, Associate: Corporate Investigations and Forensic, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
• Advocate Jan Augustyn, Independent Consultant – practising Advocate and Specialist in the FICA/AML environment
• Willem Janse van Rensburg, Executive Consultant: Dispute Resolution, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Sessions to be covered

• Current landscape of anti-money laundering and financial crime in Southern Africa
• AML monitoring, reporting and financial surveillance
• Financial crime enforcement, compliance and due diligence
• Risk management, cyber-crime and AML
• Use of smart technology in combatting anti money laundering / CFT
• Money laundering and corruption
• Regulation and regulatory frameworks

Who attended our 2016, 2017 & 2018 AML & Financial Crime Conferences?
* Discovery AML Compliance * Adaptris Financial Services* Adept Advisory* Albaraka Bank *Barclays Africa Financial Crime Compliance* Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe* Ovations Technologies * Nedbank Risk * MoData * LexisNexis Risk Solutions * SAS Institute * Bidvest Bank AML*Consumer Profile Bureau* Digiata Technology Services* FBC Holdings* Financial Intelligence Centre * First Rand Risk* Fiserv* FNB Financial Crime Compliance* FNB Financial Crime Risk* FNB Chief Risk Office* FNB Head of Legal Risk & Compliance* Grant Thornton PS Advisory* Investec Bank* Liberty Compliance* Liberty Life risk & business continuity management* Mukuru Africa Compliance* Mukuru Africa IT* Nedbank CIB AML sanctions* Nedbank NIC Risk, Compliance, Monitoring* Nedbank Private Wealth* Nedbank Regulatory Change Portfolio*OK Zimbabwe* Old Mutual Personal Finance Strategy & Execution* Bateleur Software * Ernst & Young Advisory Services * SA Reserve Bank Bank Supervision department* Sasfin Bank Internal Audit* Standard Bank Group Anti- Money Laundering* Ubank Compliance* Wesbank Regulatory risk Management* GBS Mutual Bank Compliance* Hollard Financial Crime Risk* ABSA Financial Crime Compliance* Sanlam Life Personal Finance* ABSA Financial Crime Compliance * South African Reserve Bank Internal Audit * IBV Gold

To register or for more information contact Ryno van Ellewee on 011 803-1553.

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Ponte City: Transformation

As the “white flight” of the 1980s and 90s drained the inner city of capital, Ponte City underwent a dramatic and terrifying transformation. By the late 1990s, the building had become a “vertical slum” and a symbol of urban decay. It was famously “hijacked” by gangs; the retail levels were stripped, and the building became a fortress for drug dealing and human trafficking. The most haunting image from this era was the central core. Originally designed to be a light-filled courtyard, it became a literal trash heap. Residents on the upper floors would throw their refuse into the center of the building rather than taking it down. At its worst point, the trash in the core reached five stories high—a mountain of rotting debris, discarded furniture, and even, legend has it, the remains of those who had fallen or jumped.

During this period, the reputation of Ponte was so toxic that there was a serious proposal in 1998 to turn the entire skyscraper into a vertical prison. The plan was eventually scrapped, but the building remained a “no-go zone” for nearly a decade. The turnaround began in the mid-2000s when developers New Metro Property Group and later Dlala Nje began a massive, painstaking refurbishment. They cleared out the tons of trash from the core, restored the lifts (which had often been out of order, forcing residents to climb 50 flights of stairs), and implemented strict security protocols.