Mr. Christopher Malan
Executive Manager (Compliance and Prevention Division) at the Financial Intelligence Centre
Mr Christopher Cyril Martin Malan is the Executive Manager (Compliance and Prevention Division) at the Financial Intelligence Centre with oversight responsibility for monitoring the national state of supervision, and inspections, by supervisory bodies, and national compliance of all accountable institutions under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001, as amended.
He is a member of the South African Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, responsible for remediating grey-listing action items relating to Designated Non-financial Businesses and Professions.
Mr Malan is co-chair of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Beneficial Ownership Transparency (IDC BOT) (a Cabinet endorsed IDC) to design and implement a national BOT registry framework in South Africa, and in that capacity provides guidance on the grey listing remediation on BOT.
Mr Malan is a former National Treasury Chief Director of Financial Regulation (1999-2004), who finalised the AML/CFT policy and regulatory regime, including stakeholder consultations, oversaw the passage of the FIC Bill through Parliament, and advised then Minister of Finance, the Honourable Dr Trevor Manuel, on the establishment of the FIC. He transferred to the FIC in December 2004.
Mr Malan, as financial sector expert, participated in the FATF Mutual Evaluation Assessment of Australia in 2005, and the FATF Mutual Evaluation Assessment of Finland, in 2018.
Mr Christopher Malan is a former attorney, and a certified anti-money laundering specialist of the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, since 2013.
He holds the BA (Political Studies & Roman Dutch Law), LLB and LLM (Advanced Company Law & Maritime Law) degrees, and Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law (University of Cape Town), and Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Principles (SOAS, University of London). He attended the Program on the Global Financial System: Structure, Crisis, and Reform (JFK School of Government, Harvard University).