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The Consortium and the work it undertakes is currently organised into task focused working groups.

As at October 2018, the working groups and current chairs are as follows.

	Chairperson	Company	Email Address
SAFBC Forum	Tanya Knowles	Consultant	[email protected]
Regulatory Stream	Catherine Tinavapi	Standard Chartered Bank	[email protected]
Fintech Stream	Kreaan Singh	Blockstarters	[email protected]
Identity Stream	Anushka Soma-Patel Gary de Beer	Old Mututal BankservAfrica	[email protected] [email protected]
Academic Stream	Co-Pierre Georg		[email protected]

Roles of the Working Groups

SAFBC General Forum

• Open forum for members to gather and share learnings.
• Group feedback on activities of the Sub-streams.
• Group decisions on SAFBC strategy and initiatives to be undertaken.
• Bi-annual chair elections.

Regulatory Stream

• To address legal issues and compliance requirements in the use of blockchain technology for the SAFBC.

FinTech Stream

• To represent the blockchain industry outside the corporate and regulatory body of the SAFBC.
• To raise awareness of start-ups that operate in the fintec blockchain environment e.g payment gateways, investment vehicles, blockchain protocols.

PR Stream

• Create brand awareness and education presence for the Consortium.

Identity Stream

• To build, assess and demonstrate how blockchain technology can be used for the development of use cases.

Academic Stream

• Work with academia on research and development in blockchain.
• Interact with universities/ institutions across South Africa to gauge support.
• Increase education and training on blockchain at tertiary level.