The Bank, in close co-operation with the Financial Intelligence Centre, continued to monitor the compliance of banking institutions with legislation relating to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. Furthermore, in August 2008 the Bank participated in the Financial Action Task Force’s mutual evaluation of South Africa’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing system.
Subsequently, the markets continued to grow by weathering trials, including securities markets’ slump after the Tokyo Olympics and, in the 1980s, both the stocks market and the corporate bonds market got into full swing amid financial liberalization and globalization.