Afreximbank Compliance Forum - ACF (2025)

Overview

Held under the theme “Better Compliance – Better Trade: Embracing AI to Promote and Secure Trade Through a Modern AML/CFT Compliance Framework”, the Forum will focus on how AI is enabling faster risk assessments, advancing fraud detection, streamlining due diligence, and real-time monitoring of cross-border transactions. These innovations are tackling financial crime, enhancing transparency and building secure compliance systems to expand trade across Africa and into global markets.

The Forum attracted diverse participants ranging from central bankers, global and regional regulators, commercial bankers, legal advisers, compliance officers, trade-focused specialists, financial institutions, development partners, Fintechs and technology specialists, auditors, and financial intelligence agencies from across the Africa and other parts of the world.

Key themes at ACF202 included:

• The integration of artificial intelligence in compliance and its impact on the effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures,
• Insights from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on digital transformation,
• Lessons learned from African countries successfully exiting the FATF grey list,
• Strategies for detecting Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML),
• Best practices in correspondent banking and
• Case studies showcasing the application of AI in customer onboarding and real-time monitoring.