20th and 21st May 2020

Bryanston Country Club Johannesburg

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7 countries | 20 speakers An interactive event which seeks to explore current and emerging financial crime risks locally and

internationally. It provides delegates with insights and strategies for building an integrated

financial crime framework and management of risks.

20th and 21st May

Johannesburg

Conference Themes

The international financial crime framework – Challenges and

best practices

Global initiatives to combat human trafficking and illegal wildlife

trade – Typologies for risk based monitoring

The regulation and investigation of cryptocurrency transactions

Illicit financial flows

The role of artificial intelligence, big data and analytics in the

fight against financial crime

Collaborative customer due diligence

Proliferation financing

Money laundering through gaming and crowd funding

Convergence of cybercrime and money laundering

Detection of organised crime syndicates in the finance sector

Benefits of Attending

Learn about emerging financial crime risks and the challenges faced by other

countries

Photography booths and sessionsPhotography sessions and lucky draws

Networking opportunities to meet like-minded professionals from all over the

globe

Gain insights into the implementation of controls and

strategies for the management of financial crime risks

Participate in panel discussions

Fulfil ongoing professional development requirements

Meet our exhibitors and learn about new technologies,

knowledge management platforms and training solutions

Have your say and make your impact by participating in

research surveys.

Who should attend?

Anyone with an interest in combatting financial crime

▪ Compliance, risk, audit, legal and governance professionals

▪ Data scientists

▪ Virtual asset service providers

▪ Blockchain strategists

▪ Consulting firms

▪ Reg-Tech providers

▪ Financial advisors, wealth managers, bankers

▪ Law Enforcement

▪ Investigators

▪ Intelligence Agencies

▪ Fraud Examiners and Investigators

Ideally suited for

Intermediate, Senior and Executive level

positions

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Event Anchor: Yusuf Abramjee

Activist. Social Cohesion Advocate. Consultant.

Communicator. Influencer

Yusuf Abramjee is a social activist and social cohesion advocate.

He has won many media and leadership awards over the years,

including a National Order from the SA Government.

He is the head of Tax Justice SA, the Chief Ambassador of the

Namola Safety App and Head of Make SA Safe. Former

Journalist, Editor and Head of News.

Peter El Sharoni

Executive Officer – Policy Development and Quality

Assurance

FATF Secretariat (MENAFATF)

Mr. El Sharoni enjoys more than 15 years of experience in the

fields of AML/CFT and banking supervision. He is currently the

Executive Officer for Policy Development and Quality Assurance

in the MENAFATF Secretariat. He is mainly responsible for

overseeing and contributing to the work related to the

development and review of the AML/CFT policies and ensuring

quality and consistency of mutual evaluation reports, technical

and general documents and publications.

Before joining the MENAFATF secretariat, Mr. El Sharoni used to

be the Deputy Head of the Research and Strategic Analysis

Department at the Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorism

Financing Combating Unit (EMLCU).

Keynote Topic:

Changes in the international framework for

combatting financial crime – challenges and

best practices

Aaron Kahler has 15+ years of experience in the financial services industry

working with institutional clients within banking, capital markets, brokerage,

asset management, money service businesses, crypto exchanges, hedge and

private equity funds. He is an Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy

Act (BSA), USA PATRIOT Act and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

regulatory compliance subject matter expert who also specializes in fraud

management, financial crimes investigation and investigative due diligence-

Know Your Customer (KYC).

He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Fraud

Examiner, Aaron is also an Advisory Council Member for the Association of

Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), an Advisory Board Member for the

International Association of Asset Recovery, a Representative Expert for the

Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

(EAG), and a former Financial Fraud Columnist for Examiner.com.

Aaron currently holds a favourably adjudicated Top Secret Security Clearance

and is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of North Carolina

Louis de Koker holds a chair in law at the La Trobe Law School (Australia)

where he is the coordinator and RegTech program leader of the La Trobe Law

Tech team.

From 2014-2019 he was the national program leader of the Law and Policy

research program of the Australian government-funded Data to Decisions

Cooperative Research Centre. This program considered the legal and policy

aspects relating to Big Data analysis and Australian national security

objectives.

He is also a senior financial crime policy consultant to Consultative Group to

Assist the Poor (CGAP), an independent think tank housed at the World Bank

promoting financial inclusion.

Aaron Kahler

Founder: Anti-Human

Trafficking Intelligence Initiative

Louis de Koker

Professor: La Trobe Law School

Lansana Daboh hold a Master’s degree in Economic Policy and

Management, with over 17 years of postgraduate and professional

experience in research in the financial sector, macroeconomics

and monetary policy issues.

He joined GIABA in 2010, after spending 6 years in the Central

Bank of Sierra Leone as a Senior Banking Officer. Currently, he

doubles as a Research Officer and a Risk Monitoring Officer in

GIABA, and his research focus are typologies studies, financial

inclusion, risk assessment, data collection and analysis for risk

monitoring.

Pieter Alberts is a Senior Operations Manager in the Financial

Intelligence Centre and overseeing the Investigative Support

Service in the Monitoring and Analysis Division.

Prior to this position, he was with Deloitte and Touche Forensics

and part of Commercial Crime Unit of the South African Police

Service and the Hawks with extensive experience in the

prevention, detection and investigation of serious commercial and

financial crimes.

He holds a Master’s degree in Forensic Accountancy and is a

Forensic Practitioner (FP) SA and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Lansana Daboh

Researcher: GIABA

FATF Regional Body: West

Africa

Pieter Alberts

Senior Manager: Financial

Intelligence Centre

Michael Blicker, principal consultant in Presales at FICO, has over

30 years of experience in the financial industry. He served the IT

business in various functions, as Business Development Manager,

Project Manager or as Head of Professional Services for complex

software solutions designed for banks, asset management and

insurance companies.

He possesses extensive domain knowledge and expertise in the

Compliance field, ranging from KYC, FATCA/CRS to Anti-Money

Laundering, Counter-Terrorism Financing and Fraud.

Michael graduated from University of Mannheim, Germany, with a

degree in Business Administration.

Marcel van der Watt is a complex-systems strategist, justice

servant, and Ph.D. (Criminal Justice) graduate. He has a

combination of international recognition and 17 years’ operational

experience in combating complex crimes such as human

trafficking, organized crime, and violence against women and

children.

Highly adept and proficient criminal investigator, crisis negotiator,

and expert witness. Presented and published research on local

and international platforms. Awards include accolades from the

National Police Commissioner, Rotary International, ADT Security

and a nomination as a finalist in the Police Star of the Year

competition. He received an unreserved endorsement from E.

Benjamin Skinner, fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School CARR

CENTER for Human Rights Policy (Massachusetts, USA)

Michael Blicker

Principle Pre-Sales Consultant:

FICO

Marcel van der Watt

Senior Lecturer & Researcher:

UNISA

Chad Thomas is the Chief Executive Officer of IRS Forensic

Investigations, an independent financial and organised crimes

investigation company. Chad was previously the GM of Stallion

Investigations, a division of Stallion Security. Prior to that, Chad

was employed as head of investigations for BoE Private Bank

(insurance and FG division), and before that head of security at

Standard Bank Property Fund Managers. Chad served in an

investigation and intelligence capacity in the permanent force of

the South African National Defence Force until the end of 1994.

Chad is a 28 year veteran of law enforcement in South Africa. He

is the recipient of the security industry’s Medal of Bravery – Gold

Class, awarded in 1998. He was nominated for the Mail & Guardian

Driver’s of Change Award. Chad was the host of the host of the

radio show “Corruption Busters” which won the Best Daytime

Radio Show in South Africa award in 2017; and is currently the

host of the actuality radio show “Confidential Brief” on ChaiFM.

Chad is a regular organised crime commentator on television news

and in the print media.

Chad Thomas

CEO: IRS Forensics

Willem Janse van Rensburg

Executive Consultant:

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc

Willem Janse van Rensburg is an experienced Lawyer with a

demonstrated history spending more than 2 decades as a Director

of a large corporate law firm, skilled in Dispute Resolution,

Commercial litigation, Administrative Law, Legal Compliance,

Arbitration, and Corporate Investigations. Specialized Lawyer in

ABAC and AML with experience in US FCPA and UK BA.

Leader in the organised legal profession advising corporate clients

and state owned entities. Popular speaker on anti-bribery and

corruption with an LLB from Stellenbosch, a Certificate in Anti-

Money Laundering (Cum Laude, AML Forum Award best student)

from University of Johannesburg, as well as a Diploma in Criminal

Justice and Forensic Accounting, also from the University of

Johannesburg.

Lourdes Miranda

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Analyst and Investigator

MirandaFinIntel Consulting, LLC

Lourdes Miranda is a Washington, DC-based cryptocurrency

analyst, a financial crimes investigator, a Certified Anti-Money

Laundering Specialist, and a Certified Fraud Examiner with over

28 years of government and corporate experience. Lourdes

specializes in counter-threat finance including money laundering

and fraud investigations, counterterrorism, counterintelligence,

cryptocurrency executions and blockchain analysis; financial

intelligence collection and analysis and task force leadership.

Lourdes worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement

Administration (DEA), Treasury Department, the Department of

Homeland Security, as well as for the private sector. Lourdes has

been interviewed by CNBC and is a frequent speaker and trainer

on cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, and has multiple

articles and has also been quoted in Forbes, Cryptoglobe, and

the Asia Times.

Keynote Topic:

Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Risks: Virtual Assets

Tsitsi Marote is a young African data scientist who is passionate

about analytics, machine learning and generally anything data.

Tsitsi graduated with a Bachelors degree from Wits University in

Computational and Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics.

She went on to obtain her honours degree from the same

institution in Big Data Analytics.

Some of the exciting things that she has worked on as a data

scientist are fraud detection, chatbot development, automation of

processes, prediction analytics amongst many others.

Tsitsi Marote

Data Scientist: Terraflow

Kevin West

Senior Managing Director,

Forensic & Litigation Consulting

– FTI Consulting

Kevin West is an experienced Senior Managing Director with a

demonstrated history of working in the management consulting

industry and within the banking industry. He is skilled in Sanctions,

Anti-Money Laundering, Enterprise wide Financial Crime Risk

Management, Anti-bribery and Corruption.

Strong consulting professional with practical hands-on experience

in both the First and Second Lines of Defence. Holds a Hons

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom Hons) degree, Money Laundering

Control Certificate, and is a member of the Certified Fraud

Examiners (CFE) and the Association of Certified Sanctions

Specialists (ACSS)

Chris van der Walt is the founder of eas-e Fica - an anti-money

laundering and identity theft company now known as Baker Tilly

Advisory.

He holds a degree in law and a Master's degree in applied

business ethics and consults on all aspects of ethics, anti-money

laundering and protection of personal information. He teaches a

Continuous Professional Development course accredited by the

Institute of Bankers of SA on the ethics of privacy.

Chris van der Walt

Director: Baker Tilly Advisory

Molope Mathete

Forensics Investigator: RMG

Forensic Services

Molope Mathete is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a

Manager- Training & Forensic Investigations at RMG Forensic

Services. He has a wealth of experience in Training, Investigations,

Fraud Detection and Prevention. Molope has started his career in

the Forensic Science Laboratory of the South African Police

Services and has since worked both in the Public and Private

Sector for the past 15 years, including the Insurance Industry and

Pensions Administration. He has gained most of his experience in

the finance sector and has authored a total of 16 books. His latest

writing offering “We Killed for Insurance Money” touches on the

issue of Organized Crime Syndicates in the Finance Sector in

general. His academic background covers University Degrees,

Post Graduate Qualifications, Training on Ethics Management &

Anti-Corruption, Governance and Strategy, Project Management,

Cyber and Computer–Related Crimes, Forensic & Investigative

Auditing and Anti-Money Laundering.

Mark Taylor

Product Director: International

Compliance Association (ICA)

“ICA Establishes a

Footprint in South Africa”

Mark is an experienced compliance professional based in London who

enjoys developing training solutions within the financial services sector.

Before working for ICA, Mark held various senior management positions

with HSBC, Standard Bank and Lloyds Banking Group and gained an

international perspective from overseas postings including 10 years in

Hong Kong. He understands the challenges faced when managing

regulatory risks and is keen to help clients develop practical solutions in

response to risk and remediation priorities.

He was appointed Product Director of the ICA in December 2019.

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