Angola strengthens financial oversight with ISJ-CMC cooperation protocol

The Gaming Supervision Institute (ISJ) and the Capital Markets Commission (CMC) of Angola have signed a landmark institutional cooperation protocol in late October 2025, marking a new era in regulatory coordination between the gaming and financial sectors.

The agreement, signed by Dr Nerethz Tati (ISJ) and Dr Elmer Serrão (CMC), will see both regulators share intelligence, conduct joint training sessions and deploy a common risk-monitoring framework to detect suspicious transactions, limit money laundering, and align Angola’s systems with global standards.

Under the new protocol, the ISJ and CMC will exchange data on concessions, operators, financial flows and consolidation of supervisory practices. Both institutions emphasised that this step “represents a decisive move towards a more transparent and controlled national financial system aligned with international standards of integrity and risk-prevention”.

For gaming operators and financial institutions in Angola, the implications are clear: increased scrutiny, higher compliance expectations and a reinforced obligation to maintain robust internal control systems. The move also stands as a response to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s recent placing of Angola on its grey-list, underscoring national efforts to upgrade supervision.