AFI Global convenes African member regulators workshop to strengthen cybersecurity information sharing for digital financial services

AFI Global, co-hosting with Banco de Moçambique, brought together 13 African member institutions in Matola City, Mozambique to exchange insights on strengthening cybersecurity in digital financial services, building on its recently launched African cybersecurity information sharing initiative. The three-day programme examined existing country-level and sub-regional cyber information-sharing initiatives, including how information flows are structured, how privacy, confidentiality and trust are safeguarded, how regulators collaborate with industry, what governance arrangements support coordinated responses, how incident playbooks are designed, and how cross-border threat intelligence networks are sustained. Participants compared current practices and gaps and heard from the Africa Cybersecurity Resource Centre, Mozambique’s National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (INTIC), and the BIS cyber resilience coordination centre, with discussions highlighting the need for stronger inter-institutional coordination, robust incident-reporting frameworks, and trusted mechanisms for information sharing at national, regional and cross-border levels. A Cybersecurity Task Team representing all AFI member institutions in Africa is continuing work to map the current state of cybersecurity information-sharing and peer learning initiatives across African financial regulators.