At the international level – within the G20 and supported, in particular, by the Financial Stability Board – there is agreement that the global financial system must be made much more resilient and less susceptible to risk. In the EU, cooperation between national supervisory authorities will be improved through the creation of a European system for financial supervision.
We hope that you too will benefit from these proceedings and will emerge from this conference with an expanded knowledge on these critical issues that we will be covering over the next three days. The genesis of this conference dates back to 2016 when the SARB organised and hosted its first Cybersecurity Conference. That conference underlined the importance of cybersecurity and cyber-resilience.