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Hannes Bezuidenhout

Vice President of Sales for Africa at identity verification platform Sumsub, specialising in fraud prevention and KYC compliance.

Oct 8, 2026

9:04
Mm.
9:04
So having a human in the loop to verify, "Listen, there's a human, and he has proceeded to go with this transaction." So you'll see globally a lot of banks and a lot of payment platforms are allowing for this agentic payments to happen, and there is a verifiable link between that to make sure.
9:21
But also, to Natalia's point, is the software being used, is that good? So I think definitely in the continent there needs to be something that, uh, is going to be worked on.
9:32
I know South Africa tried to build their own AI regulation with the help of AI, and they failed.
9:37
But, um, you know, version two should happen, and we should say this is the, the charter and, and it has to adapt.
9:44
Because if you look at all these frontier companies, as you rightfully mentioned, they can't even predict six months into the future.
9:51
So it just needs to be a living document that constantly gets updated.
12:45
Mm.

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