The director for Information Technology of the National Reserve Bank of Angola (BNA), Fernando Quiúma, ruled out on Monday in Lubango in the southern Huíla province the possibility of the existence of financial computing crimes in the banking institutions of the country.
Speaking to the press on the fringes of the 10th Annual Conference of the Sub-committee of Information Technology of the Central Banks of SADC, Fernando Quiúma said that the country does not record any action that aim to interrupt and embezzle money through computing operactions.
According to him, the IT systems set up in the commercial banks permit to detect any action that aims to undermine the normal functioning of the banks.
“The issues related to security and computing crimes, so far we have not recorded any action of this kind, but we have installed mechanisms to respond to whatever is necessary”, he underlined.
Fernando Quiúma explained that the Central Bank of Angola is updating the information technology systems so as to keep the pace of the progress of other countries, and thus avoid risks of frauds and other actions provoked by computing.
In the conference, taking place until Thursday, the participants are discussing issues related to the strategies of plans recommended in 2014, work of the Central Bank of Mozambique and information of governance project of the information technologies and its progress.
This is the first meeting of computing directors of Central Banks of SADC countries that is taking place in Lubango.
SADC is grouped by Angola, South Africa, Botswana, DR Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.