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Financial Crime in Sub-Saharan Africa 2020

Revealing changing attitudes and responses to regulation and financial crime across the continent

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Are Africa-based organizations coping with rapidly increasing volumes of data?

Our first report on financial crime in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals both the obvious and unseen trends and challenges in the fight against financial crime, providing compliance practitioners and senior executives the ability to benchmark their current activity.

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  • Key trends for Africa-based organizations including digital identity, green crime and supply-chain fraud.
  • How compliance budgets are spent on transitioning to digital, meeting the needs of their business and customers, and achieving regulators’ expectations.
  • Why green crime poses a particular risk to Africa-based organizations, and how technology and data will play a crucial role in disrupting crime networks.
     

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  • 44%
    of respondents risk industry professionals
  • 25%
    senior managers or business owners
  • 50%
    from companies with 250+ employees
  • 66%
    have experienced financial crime within the past five years

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The shift towards digitalization is a theme that comes through very clearly in our report. The pace of this transformation is likely to have accelerated in response to COVID-19 and it is unlikely to diminish once we exit the pandemic.

Phil Cotter
Managing Director, Risk Business, Refinitiv

Key content

Is increased investment the answer?

90% expect their financial crime technology to change in the next 2 years

Going beyond box ticking

28% say internal behavior change is their biggest challenge

Sanctions: a fast-moving situation

Only 43% have a sanctions program in a time of growing sanctions risk