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South Africa strengthens financial crime prevention
Sameer Kumandan, Managing Director, SearchWorks Following South Africa’s financial greylisting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial crime watchdog, for not fully complying with international standards around the prevention of money...
The basics of the two-pot system proposals
The basics of thetwo-pot systemproposals Leanne van Wyk, ICTS Legal Services (Pty) LtdNicci van Vuuren, Webber WentzelWhy the two-pot system?The two-pot system allows retirement fund members to access up to one-third of their ongoing retirement fund contributions once...
Protecting members’ interests
Belinda Sullivan,Head of Corporate Consulting Strategy, Alexforbes Members of retirement funds have different needs, time horizons and options available to them to target their specific outcomes throughout their journey to and into retirement. Achieving a reasonable...
A POPIA perspective on the Financial Intelligence Centre’s Directive
Prineil Padayachy, Senior Associate & Peter Grealy, Partner at Webber WentzelA POPIA perspectiveon the FinancialIntelligence Centre'sDirective 8The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) recently published Directive 8 of 2023: Screening of employees for competence...