Banking compliance and the fight against financial risks are now at the heart of international trade priorities. Following the success of the 2024 Compliance Forum in Dakar, which brought together more than 36 countries and 25 high-level experts, Afreximbank is launching an even more ambitious edition: ACF 2025. This meeting will focus on best practices in correspondent banking, as well as advances in artificial intelligence for customer onboarding and real-time monitoring.
As African trade modernizes, banking compliance is becoming a strategic pillar for the continent’s financial institutions. At the 2024 Dakar Compliance Forum, discussions highlighted the need for a robust framework that combines efficiency, transparency, and innovation. This year, ACF 2025 aims to go further. Afreximbank, the driving force behind this initiative, is leveraging artificial intelligence to transform compliance: platforms capable of rapidly onboarding clients, detecting anomalies in real time, and ensuring the security of cross-border transactions.
Our role is to make sure that we maintain financial stability but also financial integrity, hence fighting financial crime. How do we do that? First is our supervisory role in making sure that our regulated financial institutions comply with the AML, as we say, anti-money laundering and CFT regulations. But for that we need to modernize our supervisory tools. Technology is a great tool to use in terms of making sure that financial institutions comply with regulations.
SORAYA HAKUZI YAREMYE, Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda
Rwanda, which is hosting this Afreximbank compliance forum from November 12, is positioning itself at the heart of this transformation by promoting international best practices and exploring the use of artificial intelligence to strengthen trust in its financial system.
So hosting the Afrixim Bank Compliance Forum 2025 is a strong sign of confidence. One, in Rwanda’s ability to organise international conferences. As you know, international conferences is one of the strategic priorities for Rwanda. Second is also a trust in Rwanda’s financial sector and its regulator in partnering with Afrixim Bank to put compliance at the forefront of conversations, but also development in compliance. Kigali now is a place where forward-looking conversations happen.
SORAYA HAKUZI YAREMYE, Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda
With the participation of global and regional experts, this forum promises to be a key event for banking decision-makers, regulators, and international trade stakeholders.The forum’s objective is to transform compliance from a constraint into a driver of growth for Africa. Reporting from Kigali, Rwanda, for the Afreximbank Compliance Forum
