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
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has been by far the most active AML/CFT regulator, taking 5 key enforcement court cases to date. New Zealand has a triple-headed Anti-Money Laundering Supervisors system, with the DIA the larger and livelier
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
Gary was interviewed by Radio NZ's Morning Report show on 30 May 2018, for his expert comments on claims by a political scientist that AML rules are ineffective. In summary form, Gary's views expressed to the business journalist Patrick O'Meara
These articles first appeared in the Australian Financial Review. View the original articles in pdf here. Now questions loom from NZ regulators Smart ATMs Patrick Durkin The Commonwealth Bank faces questions from anti-money laundering regulators in New Zealand, after revelations that CBA’s New Zealand subsidiary ASB Bank is
This article first appeared on Huffington Post, which can be found at here This Is The Unusual Money Laundering Method Of ‘Cuckoo Smurfing’ Article by Luke Cooper Associate Editor, HuffPost Australia Commonwealth Bank Australia was accused of 53,700 breaches of money laundering laws by
Proposals to extend Anti-Money Laundering legislation, which would at least triple the number of reporting entities currently captured, have been moving at breakneck pace in New Zealand. The Law and Order Select Committee today reported back to Parliament, two weeks
[An abridged version of this article is in LAWTALK Magazine, July 2017 – Download PDF or you can view the article here] Plenty has been written about looming Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML) regulation for lawyers, some of
