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🚨 October's Mauritius Financial Crime Conference - meet our speakers

20/10/2025

We’re thrilled to unveil the official programme for the 7th Annual Mauritian Financial Crime Conference, hosted by Comsure Compliance Ltd in partnership with The Axis Academy.

This year’s event brings together regulators, prosecutors, industry leaders, and global experts to explore the latest in AML/CFT, AI-driven risks, sanctions compliance, fintech, and more.

The speakers and programme are as follows

Day 1 – 22nd October 2025

  • 08:30 – 09:15    Registration                     
  • 09:15 – 09:30    Welcome Address        
    • Mathew Beale, CEO of Comsure Compliance Ltd

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    • Assad Abdullatiff, Managing Director, Axis Fiduciary Ltd

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  • 09:30 – 10:00   
    • Keynote Address - Speaker to be confirmed    

10:00 – 10:30    TEA BREAK                       

  • 10:30 – 11:15    Session 1: Global trends in AML/CFT Regulations: Are we moving towards Effectiveness or Exhaustion?
    • Mathew Beale, CEO of Comsure Compliance Ltd
  • 11:15 – 12:00    Session 2: Mauritius’s National Strategy Against Financial Crime: Coordination and Accountability, Role of FCC, inter-agency collaboration, and future strategic direction            
    • Speaker to be confirmed           

12:00 – 13:30    LUNCH               

AFTER LUNCH

  • 13:30 – 14:15    Session 3: Sanctions Compliance in a Fragmented World: Practical Challenges for Financial Institutions  
    • Lerato Lamola Partner, Webber Wentzel

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  • 14:15 – 15:00    Session 4: Banking Panel Session
    • Mathew Beale (Moderator), CEO of Comsure Compliance Ltd
    • Panellists:         
      • Daniel Essoo, CEO, Mauritius Bankers Association
      • Ajam Joomun, Head of Compliance & Risk at Investec Bank Mauritius

15:00 – 15:30    TEA BREAK & NETWORKING                   

  • 15:30 – 16:15    Session 5: Fintech, Financial Services and AML Risks to Consumers and Financial Institutions: A Regulatory Perspective
    • Renu Audit, Director, Financial Services Commission

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  • 16:15 – 17:00    Session 6: The New offence of fraud by Abuse of position: Implications for Directors and Fiduciaries       
    • Assad Abdullatiff, Managing Director, Axis Fiduciary Ltd

17:00 – 17:10  CONCLUDING REMARKS & END OF DAY 1       

  • Shammeemkhan Abdoolakhan - Director of Talent and Technical Development, Axis Eruditio Ltd

GALA DINNER - 17:30 – 18:30    Pre-Dinner Cocktail- 18:30 – 21:00   Gala Dinner

Day 2 – 23rd October 2025

  • 09:15 – 09:25    Welcome Address        
    • Shammeemkhan Abdoolakhan, Director of Talent and Technical Development, Axis Eruditio Ltd
  • 09:25 – 10:10    Session 7: Money Laundering Regulations: Are disproportionate obligations imposed on lawyers?            
    • Ammar Oozeer. Partner & Head of Regulatory & Compliance at BLC Robert & Associates

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  • 10:10 – 10:55    Session 8: The Prosecution of Financial Crime in Mauritius - Challenges and Progress               
    • A representative from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions            

10:55 – 11:25    TEA BREAK                       

  • 11:25 – 12:10    Session 9: Latest Emerging Threats: Transnational organised crime trends
    • Abu Baker Mehtar (CAMS) (CGSS), Customer and Third-Party Risk Solutions – LSEG

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  • 12:10 – 12:55    Session 10: The evolutive approach to the strict requirements of the offence of Money Laundering in Mauritius             
    • Saleem Abdullatiff, Head of Risk and Compliance, MATCO Ltd

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12:55 – 14:25    LUNCH               

AFTER LUNCH

  • 14:25 – 15:10    Session 11: Understanding Dual Use Goods: Compliance Challenges and Enforcement Trends 
    • Ameer Caunhye, Head of Compliance and Risk Management, Axis Fiduciary Ltd

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  • 15:10 – 15:55    Session 12: Financial Crime in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Risks, Tools and New Frontier              
    • Associate Professor (Dr) Sheeba Armoogum, Faculty of Information, Communication & Digital Technologies, University of Mauritius

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15:55 – 16:25    TEA BREAK                       

  • 16:25 – 17:10    Session 13: Panel Discussion - Red Flags in Real Estate and High-value Goods: Risks Beyond the Financial Services Sector
    • Panellists:         

1. Kevin Teeroovengadum, Board Director/Advisor of various companies

2. Phillipe De Beer, CEO & Founder, Park Lane Properties

3. Manisha Meetarbhan, Corporate Legal Officer, Poncini

  • 17:10 – 17:20    Concluding remarks and Words of Thanks        
    • Mathew Beale, CEO of Comsure Compliance Ltd

📥 Download the full programme here: [attached]

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