Gary has been part of the organising committee for the NZ Police Financial Intelligence Unit for over a decade, working to develop New Zealand’s premier anti-financial crime conference.
After many years held at Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum of NZ, in 2024 the event will move into Wellington’s spanking new Takina conference venue. This will take the maximum capacity of attendees up to over 500, plus with a couple of hundred of live-stream remote attendees it is probably the largest conference of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere
Gary as Advisory Director to the ACAMS Australasia Chapter board has bene an integral part of the growth of the conference, as well as expert speaker/co-chair at this flagship AML-CFT event.
Afte a couple of years where the complex geo-political landscape of Sanctions and transnational crime environment dominated conference discourse, the 2024 theme and programme will feature a number of sessions focused on technology issues. The theme this year sums that up:
Over 2 & 1/2 days this conference delivers more insights than any in the region – into business crime, risk management, regulatory compliance, law enforcement topics, local and international crime-fighting techniques and trends.
2024 DATES are confirmed:
Conference: 30 and 31 October 2024 – two full days of plenary sessions with local and international experts.
The day beforehand, our New Zealand AML-CFT Supervisors (DIA, FMA and Reserve Bank) will hold specialist reporting entity workshops, afternoon of 29 October.
There will be several plenary keynote sessions, and breakout split workshop sessions.
The first announced keynote speaker is Erin Kaauwai, Supervisory Special Agent with the United States’ IRS Criminal Investigation’s (CI) Cyber Section. She oversees work on cyber/cryptocurrency issues and emerging threats in support of CI’s mission to combat tax and financial crimes. Prior to her current role, Kaauwai supervised the Miami Field Office’s Money Laundering Strike Force, which covered South Florida and Latin America. From 2016 to 2018, Kaauwai led the Financial Crimes Task Force for the Washington D.C. Field Office. Kaauwai began her career as a CI special agent in 2007 and has led investigations throughout the country including in Hawaii, Washington D.C., Florida, and Indiana.
The dates to block out in your calendar are 29- 31 October 2024.
Gary runs an acclaimed “AML Interview” session each year at this Conference, hosting a detailed conversation with international regulators & leaders from his extensive network of financial crime-fighting professionals.
Guests are typically at the cutting edge of high profile cases or trendsetters in the fields of AML, CFT, Sanctions.
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The 2024 NZ Police FIU registrations will open in August 2024…
Venue capacity is strictly limited and registrations for in-person places sell out quickly (virtual option is then available to attend online too).
Gary’s international guests for The AML Interview in 2023 was a double-header visiting from the heart of the UK’s Economic Crime & Transparency reform revolution, Assistant Directors Pete Maydon and Lindsey Riley from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, direct from Whitehall in London.
In previous years The AML Interview has included popular fireside chats with:
David Lewis, chief executive secretary at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Ilze Znotina, Head of the FIU of Latvia, a fascinating small nation with a few similarities to NZ, but on the doorsteps of Russia!
Tom Keatinge, financial crime policy and counter terrorism guru at RUSI (the Royal United Services Institute)
Clare Rewcastle-Brown of the Sarawak Report, who exposed the 1MDB corruption scandal in Malaysia
Lisa Main of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (and ABC News Australia) working inside the Panama Papers beneficial ownership scandal that led to major changes to NZ’s AML and foreign tax trust regime
AUSTRAC’s lead external prosecutor Sonja Marsic, involved in the big ticket prosecutions of TabCorp and CBA Bank, as well as the Hayne Royal Commission
For copies of the slides or speaking notes or video content of past AML Interviews, please email Gary or contact via this website.
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