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1 st ANNUAL BANKING COMPLIANCE CONFERENCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH AND THE SUPPORT OF June 20 th, EPIC SANA HOTEL LUANDA Conference Room: Brasil The AML/Compliance issue is now one of the major outcome in the banking industry. Driven by a fast growing political determination for more transparency in business, banks are facing increasing pressure from different sources to improve their compliance with high AML/CFT and integrity standards. From now on, the correspondent banking business relations are not only approached in terms of credit risk but also the Compliance dimension takes predominance in the appraisal process. The compliance culture of the correspondent and its implication in the business model as well as the country national environment are carefully studied before any relationship is initiated. In our global economy, no one escapes to such constraints and it is important to take them into consideration. The Conference wishes to feed the essential reflection on the obligations resulting from these rules.
8.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE DRAFT PROGRAMME 8.45 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS - Welcome address by EFFA President - Opening remarks by ABANC President, Dr. Amilcar DA SILVA - Chairperson s opening remarks by BNA representative 9.10 THE CURRENT SITUATION OF AML/COMPLIANCE IN ANGOLA - Speaker: Mr. Ulanga GASPAR MARTINS, Director & Compliance Officer, ABANC, Luanda; 9.50 THE COMPLIANCE FUNCTION IN A BANK - Speaker: Mrs. Edite AGUARDELA, Director & Compliance Expert at CAIXA GERAL DE DEPOSITOS Portugal; 10.40 NETWORKING BREAK 11.20 THE INTERNATIONAL COMPLIANCE ENVIRONMENT AND THE EFFECTS ON ANGOLA - Speaker: Luis Oliveira Rodrigues, Financial Risk Manager at GARP, GLOBAL ASSOCIATION OF RISK PROFESSIONAL; 12.00 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WOLFSBERG PROCESS - Speaker: Mr. Selim HADDAD, Manager at BYBLOS BANK EUROPE BELGIUM; 12.45 LUNCH
13.45 THE ASSESSMENT OF A CORRESPONDENT RELATION BY WESTERN BANKS - Speaker: Mrs. Simone WIRZ, consultant, former Financial Institution banker Africa & Middle East, BNP PARIBAS GROUP; 14.30 THE TRADE FINANCE COMPLIANCE - Speaker: Mr. Selim HADDAD, Manager at BYBLOS BANK EUROPE BELGIUM, Trade Finance expert; 15.15 NETWORKING BREAK 15.45 COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES AND IT S COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE - Speaker: Mr. Vitor da CUNHA RIBEIRINHO Head of Audit & Financial Services at KPMG; 16.30 FATCA ISSUE - Speaker: Mrs. Claudia BERNARDO, Partner at DELOITTE Portugal 17.15 FINAL SPEECH
Reuters article about Compliance in Angola May, the 3 rd 2013 To read full article please click here Angola toughens rules to boost transparency in booming bank sector *New rules on corporate governance, auditing, stress tests *Central bank requires compliance by end of 2014 May 3 (Reuters) - Angola has introduced tougher regulations for banks on ownership disclosure, auditing and risk management, responding to international calls for increased transparency and supervision in the oil-rich country's booming financial sector. Riding on the coat-tails of an oil boom - Angola is Africa's No.2 crude producer - the country's banking sector has posted rapid growth in the last decade and attracted foreign players. However, the expansion has raised questions about transparency, an area in which rights groups and international organisations have urged Angola to improve its record. The new regulations, issued by the central bank, come in response to recommendations from the IMF and the World Bank, a senior executive in the sector told Reuters. "This will help reduce questions about transparency in the sector and strengthen the central bank's supervisory capacity," said Joao Fonseca, executive director at Banco Angolano de Investimentos, the top bank in terms of assets. Angola's banking market is dominated by five banks, including units of Portugal's Banco BPI and BES. But with deposits rising by a third and assets by a fifth in 2011, overseas players such as Standard Bank and Russia's VTB are expanding their presence.
Under the wide-ranging new corporate governance code, banks will have to publish information about their shareholding structures, including details about who owns direct and indirect stakes. Rights groups have criticized opaqueness in a system in which large stakes are owned by secretive offshore companies. If an Angolan bank opts to have non-executive directors on its board, it must also appoint an executive board to handle day-to-day management in a transparent and responsible manner and one independent board member to oversee it. "The rules are very demanding and will require banks to strengthen management capacity," Fonseca said, adding that the deadline for implementation by the end of 2014 had been agreed with the sector association ABANC. Stricter rules on auditing, risk management, compliance and stress testing will enhance the central bank's ability to supervise the financial system. The rules will also help oil companies operating in Angola as they switch to making payments through local banks and demand transparency, Fonseca said. (Reporting by Shrikesh Laxmidas; Editing by Mark Potter)
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