Banking compliance no longer about control, but advisory – Afreximbank’s Idrissa Diop

Banking compliance no longer about control, but advisory – Afreximbank’s Idrissa Diop

When Idrissa Diop, Director of Compliance at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), started his career, it was right at the end of the Dot-com bubble when most online and technology entities that had experienced a few years of growth had declared bankruptcy and faced liquidation. In his words, compliance at the time meant you either perform or fail as countries such as the U.S. and those in Europe had strengthened regulations to avoid the…