Dawn Pretorius has for some twenty years managed her own consultancy business focusing on governance, risk, and compliance for financial services. Her practice is registered with the Financial Sector Conduct Authority in South Africa. Her career in the corporate world focused on banking from a number of different perspectives, ranging from wealth management, international investment opportunities, estate and trust planning as well as lecturer mainly related to bankers. Her qualifications include a Master’s Degree in Commerce, B.Tech in Banking and a Wits Business School Management Advancement Program. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa. Her book Beyond Play, published in 2014, represents a down-to-earth approach to governance, risk. and compliance. Concerns around the exponential growth of money laundering globally and efforts to curtail it, led her to write this book.