Cloud computing and data offshoring
On 25 July 2025, the Financial Sector Conduct and Prudential Authorities published a joint communication alerting financial institutions to ‘measures that may be considered in terms of risk mitigation in the utilisation of cloud computing and/or the offshoring of data’.
According to the communication:
Against that backdrop, the joint communication includes best practice recommendations.
With the aim of encouraging financial institutions to integrate cloud computing and/or data offshoring risks into their governance, risk management and reporting processes, the authorities intend augmenting their supervisory capability in order to monitor the approach adopted by each institution concerned.
Disaster risk insurance
On 1 August 2025, National Treasury issued a media statement announcing the release of two documents on enhancing South Africa’s approach to disaster risk insurance by better using private sector participation. This is noting that:
Although at the time of writing the documents had not been made public, the media statement refers to a summary included in the March version of the 2025 Budget review (pages 70 and 71), which alludes to reforms to enhance the disaster risk financing framework – with insights from high-risk municipalities.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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