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Money laundering and financial crime remain major challenges across Africa, The Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Africa Summit will convene at a critical moment for the continent’s financial integrity landscape. Africa continues to face significant exposure to illicit financial flows, with global estimates indicating that the continent loses tens of billions of dollars annually through money laundering, corruption, tax evasion, and trade-based financial crime. While the 2025 Basel AML Index shows that 70% of African countries improved their money-laundering risk scores, the region still contains several of the world’s highest-risk jurisdictions, underscoring the urgent need for stronger regulatory frameworks, enhanced supervisory capacity, and deeper cross-border collaboration. These dynamics create both a challenge and an opportunity: Africa is making progress, but the pace of criminal innovation is accelerating even faster.

Financial institutions, regulators, and high-risk sectors are navigating an increasingly complex threat environment shaped by digital transformation, geopolitical shifts, and the rapid expansion of mobile money and fintech ecosystems. Cyber-enabled fraud, identity theft, sanctions evasion, and crypto-asset misuse are now central concerns for compliance and risk leaders. South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre has reported a sharp rise in suspicious transaction reports linked to digital channels, while supervisory bodies across the continent are tightening expectations around KYC, beneficial ownership transparency, and risk-based compliance.

At the same time, regulators are under pressure to align with global standards from FATF, the IMF, and the World Bank, particularly as several African jurisdictions undergo mutual evaluations and face heightened scrutiny from international partners.
Against this backdrop, the Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Africa Summit will serve as a premier platform for strengthening the continent’s collective response to financial crime. The summit will bring together senior leaders from banking, insurance, fintech, telecommunications, mining, real estate, law enforcement, and government to share intelligence, unpack regulatory developments, and explore innovative approaches to detection and prevention. Delegates will gain access to expert-led sessions on AML/CFT compliance, sanctions, fraud risk, cybercrime, digital identity, ESG-linked financial crime, and the evolving role of technology—from AI-driven analytics to Tech solutions. With Africa at a turning point—showing both measurable progress and persistent vulnerabilities—the summit will provide a timely, strategic space.