Africa
Enterprise AML & KYC compliance, built for Africa.
SARB, NFIU, FIC, FATF-style bodies — local & ready.
Africa's compliance landscape is shaped by FATF-style regional bodies (GIABA, ESAAMLG, MENAFATF) and a wave of country-level reform — South Africa's exit from the FATF grey list, Nigeria's CBN open-banking framework, and Kenya's Data Protection Act. ComplianceSuite supports English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Swahili, with regional data residency in South Africa and the EU.
Native regulatory reporting
Platform
One platform for the full compliance lifecycle.
AML & sanctions screening
Real-time screening against OFAC, UN, EU, UK HMT and African national lists, with Arabic and French transliteration matching.
Learn moreKYC & identity verification
Document OCR and liveness for African ID types — Smart ID, NIN/BVN, Huduma, Ghana Card, CIN — plus mobile-first onboarding.
Learn moreTransaction monitoring
Typologies tuned for mobile money, remittance corridors and cash-intensive markets, with local-currency thresholds.
Learn moreKYB & UBO verification
Company and beneficial-ownership checks across African registries, with layered ownership resolution and risk scoring.
Learn moreRegulators & frameworks
Native coverage of the regulators that matter in Africa.
FIC
South AfricaFinancial Intelligence Centre — FICA reporting (CTR, STR, IFTR) and risk-based AML.
SARB / PA
South AfricaPrudential Authority for banks and insurers; FSCA for market conduct.
CBN
NigeriaCentral Bank of Nigeria AML/CFT regulations and Tier-1 KYC framework.
NFIU
NigeriaNigerian Financial Intelligence Unit — STR, CTR and currency-declaration reports.
CBK / FRC
KenyaCentral Bank of Kenya and Financial Reporting Centre — AML/CFT and DPA 2019.
BoG / FIC
GhanaBank of Ghana and Financial Intelligence Centre AML obligations.
GIABA
West AfricaFATF-style regional body for ECOWAS member states.
ESAAMLG
East & Southern AfricaFATF-style regional body for 18 member jurisdictions.
By country
What's tuned for each market.
FICA CTR/STR/IFTR, POPIA-aligned data handling, Cape Town residency.
Tier-1/2/3 KYC, NIN integration, BVN screening, NFIU goAML XML.
DPA 2019-aligned consent, Huduma & ID verification, FRC reporting.
Ghana Card OCR, BoG AML/CFT framework, FIC STR submissions.
Bank Al-Maghrib supervision, Arabic / French dual-language UI.
EMU Anti-Money Laundering Unit reporting, Arabic-script transliteration.
Additional African jurisdictions are supported through configurable rule packs; country-specific regulatory reporting is delivered as part of onboarding.
Industries
Who we serve across the continent.
Why ComplianceSuite
Local depth, enterprise control.
Local regulation, not retrofitted
FICA, NFIU goAML, FRC and BoG report formats are native — not spreadsheet exports bolted onto a European template.
Built for mobile-first markets
Low-bandwidth onboarding, USSD-friendly flows and offline-tolerant document capture for agent networks.
Data residency in-region
Cape Town (af-south-1) for southern Africa, Frankfurt for francophone West Africa, or fully on-prem.
One console, many countries
Country-pinned configurations under a single MLRO console, so group compliance sees everything in one place.
Data residency
- Cape Town (af-south-1)
- Frankfurt (eu-central-1)
Languages & documents
Integrations
Fits the stack you already run.
Rollout
From scoping to go-live, market by market.
Scope & regulator mapping
We map your entities, products and reporting obligations per market — FIC, NFIU, FRC, BoG — and agree the rule packs and thresholds up front.
Integrate & configure
Core banking, mobile money and national ID connections are wired in, with country-pinned configurations under one MLRO console.
Validate & go live
Parallel-run screening and monitoring, validate regulator submissions, train MLRO teams — single markets in under 6 weeks, groups in 8–14.
Case study
Pan-African fintech — 7 markets, 1 platform
A pan-African remittance fintech rolled out ComplianceSuite across 7 markets, retiring 3 country-specific tools. The MLRO team now operates a single console with country-pinned configurations and consolidated reporting.
Request the full case studyFAQs
Africa questions, answered.
Do you support FICA, NFIU and FRC reporting?+
Yes — FICA STR/CTR/IFTR for South Africa, NFIU goAML for Nigeria, and FRC reports for Kenya are generated, validated and submitted from inside the platform.
Where is African customer data hosted?+
Cape Town (af-south-1) for southern African deployments and Frankfurt (eu-central-1) for francophone West Africa, with on-prem options available.
Do you integrate with national ID systems?+
Yes — South African Smart ID, Nigerian NIN/BVN, Kenyan Huduma, Ghana Card, and Moroccan CIN, among others.
Which African countries does ComplianceSuite cover?+
ComplianceSuite is live across 18 African markets, including South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal, with sanctions, PEP and adverse-media coverage for the full continent.
Does the platform handle mobile money and remittance typologies?+
Yes — transaction monitoring ships with rules tuned for mobile money wallets, agent networks, telco float accounts and cross-border remittance corridors, with local-currency thresholds per market.
Do you support French, Portuguese, Arabic and Swahili?+
The platform UI, screening transliteration and reporting templates support English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Swahili, so francophone West Africa, lusophone and North African teams work in their own language.
How does ComplianceSuite handle POPIA, NDPR and Kenya's DPA 2019?+
Data-protection controls include consent capture, purpose limitation, retention schedules and audit logs mapped to POPIA (South Africa), NDPR (Nigeria) and the Data Protection Act 2019 (Kenya), with in-region hosting to keep personal data local.
How long does an Africa deployment take?+
Typical multi-market rollouts go live in 8–14 weeks, including regulator report mapping, national ID integrations and MLRO training. Single-market deployments are often live in under 6 weeks.
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