Vinchanzo Mostert

Foreign Exchange & Exchange Control Specialist with hands-on experience in cross-border payments, SARB Exchange Control Regulations, SWIFT operations, and SARB and FATF compliance. Proven ability to process and validate international transactions, ensure regulatory adherence, and support treasury and FX operations in high-volume environments. Strong understanding of financial markets combined with practical trading experience.

Foreign Exchange Advisor at First National Bank (2024-10 – Present)

• Buying and Selling of Foreign Currency.
• Settling Trading Deals at current exchange rates.
• Maintain accuracy in Balance of Payments (BoP) reporting and transaction classifications.
• Check and verify that Exchange Control compliance in Foreign Exchange transactions is in line with Exchange Control regulations.
• Escalate transactions not permissible in terms of Exchange Control.
• Report all suspicious activity, client behaviour and suspicious payments to the AML team.

Foreign Exchange Officer at Capitec Bank (2022-11 – 2024-09)

• Check and verify that Exchange Control compliance in Foreign Exchange payments is in line with Exchange Control regulations.
• Managing GL, Vostro and Nostro accounts.
• Escalate transactions not permissible in terms of Exchange Control.
• Communicate unsuccessful payment due to Global Sanctions Screening Policies.
• Report all suspicious activity, client behaviour and suspicious payments to the AML team.
• Responsible for actioning and Completing incoming SWIFT queries (MT199, MT999 and MT196,MT195, etc.) related to all outward FX payments.
• Handle non-financial messages on SWIFT modification queue/verification queue (4 eye principle for MT query related messages).

Foreign Exchange Trader at AutoStrat Invest (2016-10 – 2022-11)

• Long term and Short term Trading Foreign Exchange (FX) Major currency pairs.
• Manage both intraday and long-term strategies for foreign exchange markets.
• Analyse Market trends, Technical analysis to develop profitable trading strategies.
• Formulated algorithms with indicators and prioritize which trades are worth executing.
• Continuously evaluated live data and back test results to improve system processes.
• Executed trades manually, utilized personal trading strategies and techniques.
• Trading experience with International and Local South African brokers.
• Experience with trading platforms MT4, MT5 and Trading View etc.
• Used strict Risk management rules by not risking more than 2% per trade.

NQF6 Financial Markets Diploma – Chartall Business College (2025)

Matric (Grade 12) – Hoërskool President (2013)

CERTIFICATIONS

Foundation in AML and KYC – KYC Lookup (2025)

Compliance Management – University of Cape Town (2024)

Managing POPIA and FICA – Moonstone Business School (2022)

Foreign Exchange Essentials – Corporate Finance Institute (2021)

REGULATORY EXAMINATIONS

Regulatory Exam 1 (RE1) – Financial Sector Conduct Authority (2025)

Regulatory Exam 5 (RE5) – Financial Sector Conduct Authority (2023)