Gary was interviewed for two publications on Anti-Money Laundering and financial crime topics during the first quarter of 2025. Regulation Asia magazine picked up on the new NZ Police National Risk Assessment recently released, the first such updated assessment published
At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Toronto at the end of October 2025, Gary Hughes represented Britomart Chambers and, to an extent, the NZ legal bar as a whole, as speaker on several sessions. Most notably he
Speaking in Sydney April 2024 Integrity Insights - Uncovering Ill Gotten Gains ** Gary's perspectives on Confiscating Proceeds of Crime Gary was invited to speak at the Financial Integrity Hub’s event held at at Crown Resorts Barangaroo, Sydney. The ‘Integrity
Gary capped off a busy November 2021 for excellent events by being invited to present at London’s 6th Annual Business Crime Conference. This event is hosted by 33 Chancery Lane, a leading boutique set of barristers chambers in London well-known for financial
David Lewis of the FATF in conversation with Gary Hughes, at NZ FIU conference 2021. The NZ Police Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) annual conference is probably the largest financial crime event in New Zealand or Australia (450+ attendees over 2.5 days)
The Reserve Bank of NZ negotiated an agreed settlement to the TSB Bank AML case, the first enforcement action by RBNZ. In New Zealand an Anti-Money Laundering Supervisor cannot impose its own penalty, it must approach the High Court
Despite every crazy scenario 2020 has thrown up, NZ’s biggest AML and Financial Crime conference event powers ahead. The New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) together with ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) organises this major conference at
New Zealand finally has new upgraded privacy and data protection laws, in the shape of the Privacy Act 2020. This arrives at a time when local and overseas firms are experiencing more cybercrime attacks every day and the risks of
The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) is now into into its 7th year as joint venture partner with the New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence Unit, organising this major conference at Te Papa, Wellington. Gary will again act as
This month the NZ Financial Markets Authority, one of our three tiered AML-CFT regulators, put out its Monitoring Report covering the period to 30 June 2018. This semi-regular publication describes the FMA's enforcement actions and current priorities in the anti-money
