Vikas Jain is the Regional Director, Account Management at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Vikas joined LSEG on completion of the Refinitiv-LSEG transaction in January 2021. Vikas has successfully led teams in Sales Management, M&A, Operations and Strategy roles for more than 17 years. He currently leads the Account Management team for LSEG across Middle East and North Africa.

His experiences across Middle-East, US, Germany and India have helped him to appreciate working in cross-cultural teams and organizations, and to be more flexible towards accepting new ideas and changes. More importantly, it has helped in having a network of trustworthy colleagues across the globe.

Vikas has done his Masters in Business Management (PGP) at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 2003. Earlier, he has done his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from MNIT, Jaipur in 2001.

Adv Xolisile Khanyile is a career prosecutor having served different roles in law enforcement agencies for a period of 23 years.  She was appointed by the President of South Africa as a Director of Public Prosecutions (“DPP”) for a period of 8 years, 2 years in the South Gauteng Division as the Acting DPP and 6 years in the Free State Division as the DPP.

Currently serving as the Chair of the Africa Chapter of the Coalition, she was the former Chair of the Egmond group, and the Former Head of the FIC South Africa.

Adv Khanyile holds a B Juris and a LLB degree from the University of Zululand, MDP from the Business School of the University of Free State (UFS) and a LLM from the UFS respectively. She attended the Duke University African Women Charted Accountants’ Women Leading Africa Programme in 2015 and graduated in 2016. She also attended the 4th Innovative Road Safety Management Leadership Programme in Melbourne, Australia in 2015.

Donovan is part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Customer consulting Group that promotes, explains and integrates technical products on behalf of the LSEG’s customer & third-party risk solutions for the EMEA region, gathering and synthesizing customer requirements, developing high impact innovative demos and presentations for LSEG desktop solutions, including APIs, and enabling and accelerating deal closure by selling value, advantages and benefits. With regulatory and customer due diligence and financial crime subject expertise, I support the sales motion through deep knowledge of LSEGs solutions & it's deployment, customer workflows and relevant offerings. I collaborate with external and internal partners, such as content operations, proposition sales, account managers, customer success managers, technology and integration teams.

Nic is the current Head of Financial Crime for Absa Group Limited (AGL) and is responsible for the implementation and delivery of an effective Financial Crime risk management strategy and policy framework.  

Prior to this, Nic held various roles within Product Control and was also the Chief Operating Officer for Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).

He is a seasoned banker with over 20 years of experience in Financial Services and spent 11 years in London, 7 of which were at JP Morgan.

Nic is passionate about client service excellence; innovation and collaboration across the firm to benefit all core stakeholder groups.  

Shanice Gounden is a Research and Strategy manager at the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA) and has six years of experience specialising in payments and large-scale programme transformation across diverse sectors. She is currently co-ordinating the FATF Working Group at PASA to drive alignment of the requirements, including domestic sanction screening, across the industry.

Shanice has actively participated in various payments modernisation, innovation, and regulatory initiatives in South Africa, and across Africa, through her experience as a management consultant at PwC and Deloitte.

Her notable contributions include Interchange Determination and the SA Payments Study Tour to Asia. She has contributed to several payments thought leadership pieces including “The expanding role of non-banks in SA” and “The Regenesis of SA Payments: What needs to change?”.

Rufaida Hamilton is the Head of Payments for South Africa at Standard Bank Limited of South Africa (SA). She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Arts at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in SA, and after finishing Law School in 1998, pursued a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree. Rufaida has 24 years of extensive experience in financial services and payments, traversing the investment, corporate and retail banking segments. She has worked for 3 of the largest banks in South Africa and served in various payment industry roles within the SA payments eco-system in both Board and Board committee roles.

Passionate about improving the South African bank payment experience, Rufaida has led the South African Instant Payments design and implementation, as Chair of several committees from its design phase to execution of the programme to implement a new instant payment rail in the country.

Rufaida also recently led the banking industry programme to contribute to the design of the new South African  payments industry body. She has a great passion for capacity building in payments expertise and skills, particularly amongst women in payments, and specifically in emerging markets.

As a Money 20/20, Amsterdam Rise Up Cohort member in 2019, Rufaida is a mentor both in South Africa and on the Women in Payments, Canada Global Mentorship programme, supporting the development of emerging talent in payments. She recently joined the board of Currency Research and is a standing member of the Women in Payments EMEA Advisory Board.

She lives in Johannesburg South Africa.

Kevin West is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr West is in the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment and is the Anti-  Money Laundering & Compliance leader for the segment. Mr West is considered an expert in these domains.

Mr West was previously a partner with KPMG Forensic (South Africa) heading up the AML and ABC service line for Africa. He worked for KPMG for 15 years.  After leaving KPMG in 2013, Mr West was the Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Barclays Africa being responsible for approximately 12 countries on the continent. He held this role for 2 years.  In 2015, Kevin joined the FirstRand Group to head up their Financial Crime Operations (including the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit). He performed this role as a consultant and recently joined FTI when his contract came to an end.  During his career, Kevin has worked in various jurisdictions across the world, namely London, Dubai, Russia, US, and all Southern Africa countries.

Kevin has previously served on the Board of the ACFE South Africa Chapter, and was also the founding Board member of ACAMS (South Africa Chapter) and the Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP). 

Divisional Head- Policy and Regulation, National Payment System Department, South African Reserve Bank

Annah Masoga heads the Policy and Regulation Division of the National Payment System Department at the South African Reserve Bank since 2014. She is responsible for developing policy and regulatory framework for the South African payments industry, as well as authorisation and designation of participants and systems in the national payment system. She is passionate about regulation, having previously worked for the Financial Services Board (currently the Financial Sector Conduct Authority) as the regulator for securities services including exchanges, clearing houses and central securities depositories. She holds a Master’s of Science in Finance (Economic Policy) from the University of London (CeFiMS), and Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. Prior to being a regulator she was a practising attorney and conveyancer, working at Deneys Reitz Attorneys (currently Norton Rose Fulbright). 

Francois Combrinck is a respected Financial Crime Technology specialist known for his extensive experience in implementing and enhancing Financial Crime Surveillance Solutions at financial institutions in South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United Kingdom. With a deep understanding of Financial Crime Surveillance Technology, Francois has earned recognition for his skill in fine-tuning surveillance systems to reduce false positives while maintaining comprehensive risk coverage. He is passionate about leveraging technology to create effective Financial Crime Compliance solutions that adapt to the changing landscape of financial crime compliance.

Besides his work in financial crime technology, Francois is also a director of a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting classical music in South Africa. His diverse interests and commitment to excellence make him a valuable contributor to the intersection of technology and financial integrity.

Andrew Croker is a Technical Consultant within NICE Actimize. His role focuses on ensuring the Actimize AML technology solutions align with regulator expectations and the needs of the customer. Andrew has over 15 years of experience implementing global enterprise solutions across multiple industries.  His focus is implementing strategic solutions to fight financial crime, and supporting Global Economic Sanctions and AML Frameworks. Andrew works to ensure successful delivery of business analysis methodologies and best practices based on client needs and requirements. He manages customer relations and engages with senior IT, Operations and Compliance executives across various clients and engagements to deliver on commitments.

With extensive knowledge in the IT and banking industry, René has focused his career on software solutions for financial institutions, cross border payment solutions as well sanctions, KYC and Fraud prevention solutions

René has been involved in payment and entity screening since 2004 as part of providing effective payment solutions to financial institutions. He was instrumental in the deployment of payment screening solutions to most of the major banks in South Africa. During this period he was an executive director of Trustlink.

René was appointed managing director of Fircosoft South Africa in September 2013 and has since then focused exclusively on screening solutions for payments and accounts in the Africa and Middle East regions.

After several mergers René was responsible for partner strategies and development for LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group mainly in the Africa region. The solutions included screening solutions as well as fraud prevention solutions.

After trying retirement in 2022 for 9 months he decided that he was not ready to retire and joined Neterium as an Account Executive. Neterium provides SaaS screening services globally.

He has been a speaker on a number of forums for Compliance in Africa.

Johan is the Global Head of Compliance & Anti-Financial Crime at Luno, managing a team of circa 60 team members across 6 functional areas. He joined Luno initially as the Regional Head of Compliance for Luno’s African operations, but shortly after joining Luno, he was offered the position of Head of Anti-Financial Crime Operations for Luno’s global operations, before moving into the role as the Global Head of Compliance & Anti-Financial Crime. In this capacity, he oversees the Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance Advisory teams across Luno’s eight (8) jurisdictions.

Johan has over a decades experience in both Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance and has led multiple teams globally covering the APAC, Africa, Europe and UK regions. His experience covers the banking industry, long term insurance, asset management, money remittance and the crypto industry. He is well familiar with dealing with regulators, law enforcement and supervisory bodies.

Johan served on the ACAMS South African Chapter Board as the Co-Programme Director for 3 years. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with ACAMS, a member of the Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners and a registered Commercial Forensic Practitioner (FP(SA)). He is also an affiliate member of the Compliance Institute of Southern Africa. Johan has an honors in Bcom Forensic Accountancy from the North-West University of Potchefstroom, South Africa.