Adhere by Smartcomply has announced The Trust Frontier, the Adhere Compliance Frontline Forum 2026, an invitation only forum on the future of compliance, fraud and financial crime in Nigerian financial services, to be held in Lagos on Friday 24 July 2026. About 100 senior leaders from regulation, banking, fintech, law enforcement and cybersecurity will meet for one working day, and the forum will host the launch of new research produced with TechCabal, its research and media partner.
In March 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued its Baseline Standards for Automated AML Solutions, the first regulator led specification of its kind in the country, giving deposit money banks eighteen months and other institutions twenty four to move to real time, automated anti money laundering systems. Reported fraud losses fell by about 51% in 2025 to 25.85 billion naira, even as fraud reporting fell by about 34 % in the final quarter, a gap that has raised questions about what the headline numbers may be hiding. (Source: NIBSS.)
The Trust Frontier is built as a working room, not a stage. The day is given to how institutions operationalise the new CBN Baseline before examiners arrive, how to defend against synthetic identity and AI driven fraud, and how regulators, institutions and technology providers can rebuild trust at scale.
The programme includes a keynote on financial crime and enforcement from a senior law enforcement leader, two executive panels, From Mandate to Machine and The Fraud Paradox, and the live unveiling of The Compliance Reckoning, original research on regulating financial services in the age of AI, co published with TechCabal. The forum will also feature a first full look at Adhere, the AI compliance platform at the centre of the Smartcomply ecosystem.
Compliance has become the line between institutions that can prove they are trustworthy and those that cannot. The Trust Frontier is the room where Nigeria’s most senior leaders decide what that proof looks like.
Said Gbemisola Osunrinde, Chief Executive Officer of Smartcomply.
The forum is convened with TechCabal as research and media partner, and in partnership with the Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria. It is expected to draw leaders from across regulation, banking, fintech and law enforcement.
Adhere by Smartcomply is an AI platform for anti-money laundering, know your customer, and fraud detection. It monitors more than one billion dollars in transactions every month, and customers report about 70% less manual compliance work and about 40% fewer false positive alerts.
Applications to attend are open. Places are limited to about 100 senior delegates, and entry is by invitation only. Leaders who apply within the first 7 days will receive The Compliance Reckoning ahead of its public release. Apply here.
