Thokozile Buluma

Thokozile joined MFS Africa from Cassava Fintech, where she was the Head of Regulatory and Compliance. She is a compliance and regulatory professional with over 10 years’ experience in the regulatory, remittances, payments, finance and fintech sectors. She is responsible for ensuring strategic, operational efficiency and effectiveness in due diligence processes & procedures for partners and stakeholders within the MFS Africa ecosystem to support our group expansion goals. Some of her achievements include the establishment of Cassava Fintech’s compliance function and facilitating Cassava Fintech’s financial services application/approval with the South African Reserve Bank. She also facilitated compliance and regulatory approvals for Econet Group remittances projects across multiple African jurisdictions including Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini as a Financial Investments and Compliance Advisor. She holds Bachelors and Honours degrees in Economics, from the University of Pretoria, a Masters in Management Finance and Investments from WITS Business School as well as various compliance and payments certificates.