IAFCI Western Cape 2025 Seminar sponsored by Bowmans Cape Town | Safe Harbour against Fraud

Sian Gaffney has a keen interest in employee mobility and cross-border employment arrangements. She has a broad range of corporate employment law experience, including retrenchment law (both large and small-scale), executive dismissals, unfair dismissal and unfair labour practice claims at the CCMA and Labour Court, employment contract and workplace policy drafting, atypical employment arrangements, secondments, workplace conduct training, employment advisory work, workplace investigations, and employment due diligence processes in the context of corporate restructurings and M&A deals.

Keryn Layton-McCann is a senior associate in our Cape Town office’s Banking and Finance Department and member of the Financial Services Regulatory practice group.

Keryn specialises in financial services (including fintech services), securities, investment funds and banking regulations. She regularly advises clients, both local and international, on the application and implications of the Financial Sector Regulation Act, 2017; the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002; the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act, 2002; the Banks Act, 1990; the Insurance Act, 2017; the Long-Term Insurance Act, 1998, the Short-Term Insurance Act, 1998, the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001; the National Payment System Act, and the National Credit Act, 2005; (along with the regulations to and host of subordinate legislation promulgated under this legislation). She also advises clients in relation to the Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill.

Keryn regularly advises clients such as financial service providers, fund managers, payment service providers, fintech service providers, credit providers, credit bureaux and OTC derivatives providers with applications for regulatory registration, licensing, authorisation, approval and exemptions. In addition, Keryn also assists clients with ongoing compliance matters, product distribution and marketing requirements in terms of applicable legislation. She also assists clients with submissions to, and appearances before regulators, such as the Prudential Authority, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority and the National Credit Regulator.

Before joining Bowmans, Keryn worked in London and New York in the financial services industry for 12 years. Her previous experience centered around working with multinational corporate and institutional clients to find commercially sound hedging strategies to commodities exposure, more specifically, base precious and ferrous metals.

Steven Powell is Head of ENS’ Forensics practice. He is a renowned specialist white-collar crime prosecutor and forensics lawyer. Steven specialises in leading financial crime investigations that result in successful disciplinary and criminal proceedings as well as the recovery of losses from offenders in both civil and criminal matters.

Steven has been appointed to act for the South African Asset Forfeiture Unit to execute a multitude of restraint and forfeiture orders to recover the proceeds of crime flowing from corporate fraud, drug and abalone smuggling. He has performed investigations in, amongst others, the financial, oil and gas, mining, insurance and retail sectors in multiple jurisdictions in Africa.

Steven’s experience also includes anti-fraud and corruption matters and assisting clients to meet the anti-corruption compliance requirements in the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the UK Bribery Act, as well as the South African Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act. Steven also assists clients with anti-fraud and anti-bribery risk assessments, training, due diligence and compliance programmes. Steven has been commended for his contribution to the work of the judicial enquiry into State Capture led by Judge Raymond Zondo in South Africa.

Steven was recognised as the Financial Crime Investigator of the year for 2022 by the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators (IAFCI) at their annual award ceremony in Washington DC.

Steven is also frequently invited to present on white-collar crime, fraud and corruption issues throughout Africa and lectures on these topics at the local universities.

Steven is recognised as a leading/recommended lawyer by:

• Chambers Global Guide 2025, 2024, 2023, 2016 – Corporate Investigations (South Africa)
• Best Lawyers® 2016 to 2023 – Criminal Defense (South Africa)
• ACFE SA Awards 2016 – Contribution to the Anti-Fraud Profession in South Africa (Advocacy) of the Year Award
• SACA – Southern Africa Compliance Awards – Best Regulatory Lawyer of the year, 2014

Specialist in Kidnapping, Extortion, and Crisis Incident Management

Herman Bosman is an internationally recognized expert in kidnapping and extortion response, with over three decades of frontline and leadership experience in law enforcement and crisis management. As the Managing Director of KIMS International, a division of the TSU Group, Herman leads one of Africa’s foremost teams in the prevention, investigation, and resolution of high-risk kidnapping and extortion cases.

A former Lieutenant Colonel in the South African Police Service, Herman served for 20 years as the Provincial Commander of the SAPS Hostage Negotiation Team. His work included managing hostage and suicide-related incidents across the Western Cape and internationally. He has played a critical role in some of the region’s most complex cases, including high-profile international child kidnappings and extortion scenarios involving multimillion-rand ransoms—none of which resulted in a ransom payout.

Herman holds qualifications in Police Administration and Law (B.Proc and BA LLB) and is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa. His expertise has been sought after globally, delivering training and keynote presentations in countries such as Botswana, France, Latvia, Tanzania, the UK, and the USA. Notably, he has spoken at conferences such as the International Negotiators Working Group (Canada), the Close Protection Technology Forum (London), and AfATAP and OSAC events.

Under his leadership, Herman has developed and implemented operational protocols and bespoke kidnapping incident management solutions for corporate clients across Africa. His contributions to the field also include co-hosted training events with former hostages Debbie Calitz and Yolandé Korkie to raise awareness and build resilience among organizations at risk.

Renowned for his integrity and direct approach, Herman continues to dedicate his work to preventing and mitigating kidnapping and extortion threats in Africa and beyond.

Would you like a shorter version for social media or event brochures as well?

Craig Pedersen is a leading expert in digital forensics, cybercrime, and fraud investigation. As the head of TCG Forensics, he oversees operations in Cape Town and Pretoria, focusing on digital forensics and cybercrime. Craig is a Forensic Practitioner, and Cyber Crime Investigator with extensive experience in the investigation of Ponzi schemes and commercial crime.

He is a registered Certified Fraud Examiner, Forensic Practitioner (ICFP), member of the IAFCI, South African Academy of Forensic Sciences and Fellow of the Internet Service Providers Association (SA). 

Craig is also the author of the Investigators Guide to Open Source Intelligence, a comprehensive resource for investigators seeking to enhance their skills in this area. In addition to his work as an investigator and author, Craig is an accomplished lecturer and regularly shares his expertise on topics such as OsInt and Cyber Crime Investigation. 

In the digital age, cryptocurrency and online ponzi schemes have become the new go-to model for scammers not just worldwide, but around South Africa. 

Join us as we unpack the dynamics of investigating these entities, new red-flags and tested methodologies with Craig Pedersen. Craig has worked a number of Ponzi schemes both local and international and will be sharing some of his experiences and the lessons learned in this growing area of commercial crime.