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Adhere by Smartcomply has announced The Trust Frontier, the Adhere Compliance Frontline Forum 2026, an invitation only forum on the future of compliance, fraud and financial crime in Nigerian financial services, to be held in Lagos on Friday 24 July 2026. About 100 senior leaders from regulation, banking, fintech, law enforcement and cybersecurity will meet for one working day, and the forum will host the launch of new research produced with TechCabal, its research and media partner.
In March 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued its Baseline Standards for Automated AML Solutions, the first regulator led specification of its kind in the country, giving deposit money banks eighteen months and other institutions twenty four to move to real time, automated anti money laundering systems. Reported fraud losses fell by about 51% in 2025 to 25.85 billion naira, even as fraud reporting fell by about 34 % in the final quarter, a gap that has raised questions about what the headline numbers may be hiding. (Source: NIBSS.)
The Trust Frontier is built as a working room, not a stage. The day is given to how institutions operationalise the new CBN Baseline before examiners arrive, how to defend against synthetic identity and AI driven fraud, and how regulators, institutions and technology providers can rebuild trust at scale.
