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What Are The Consequences Of New Zealand’s 20+ Year Complacency Toward Financial Crime?
Monday, 16 February 2026, 11:59 am | Asia Pacific AML
Data drives the identification, monitoring, and reporting processes within a risk management framework. More >>
How Much Of NZ’s Debt Can Be Contributed To Corruption And Serious Fraud?
Sunday, 21 December 2025, 6:08 pm | Asia Pacific AML
What NZ Political Party will be the first to implement a well-governed Independent Anti-Corruption Agency and demonstrate it is serious about protecting New Zealanders for today and into the future? More >>
New Zealand’s Anti-Money Laundering Reforms Fail To Deliver
Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 7:27 pm | Asia Pacific AML
As New Zealand nears the end of its 2021 statutory review of the AML/CFT Act, there has been more harm than good that has come from it. More >>
80% Of Reported Suspicions Of Terrorism Financing And Money Laundering Are Left Unchecked
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 1:57 pm | Asia Pacific AML
Prior to the 9/11 attacks on US soil in 2001, there was no international coordinated effort to combat terrorism financing. Following the 9/11 attacks, that all changed. More >>
Explaining New Zealand’s Flawed Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Monday, 24 November 2025, 12:43 pm | Asia Pacific AML
The one word flaw is not the only flaw that exists in the AML/CFT Act and the upcoming reform of New Zealand AML/CFT laws is failing to address other existing weaknesses. More >>
A Critical Examination Of The 135-Page Independent Police Conduct Investigation Report Of The Jevon McSkimming Matter
Monday, 17 November 2025, 1:47 pm | Asia Pacific AML
If the NZ Police cannot provide transparency on how they achieve to manage conflicts of interest, then it is not possible for the public to gain the level of trust that the public require from our NZ Police force. More >>
Does New Zealand’s Prime Minister Know About The Bill Of Rights Act And The Natural Course Of Justice?
Monday, 17 November 2025, 1:29 pm | Asia Pacific AML
Let senior government executives with extremely persuasive powers to sway public opinion zip their beaks if it means they breach the Bill of Rights of another. Once a false allegation is said on the web – the false allegation is forever and ... More >>
You Can’t Fight Corruption Without Transparency And Accountability To The Public
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 1:48 pm | Asia Pacific AML
The New Zealand public should refrain from thinking the ‘bad’ that occurred by the NZ Police in failing to address the anonymous complaints, against one of their own brass, has now come to an end. More >>
NZ Government Must Invest In Financial Crime Tech Before It Can Meet Statutory Obligations To Deter Financial Crime
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 9:04 am | Asia Pacific AML
Financial crime defence systems are designed to detect, monitor and report on risks linked to financial crime. Operating with inadequate defence systems to deter financial crime will always attract financial criminals. More >>
New Zealand’s Strategy To Combat Financial Crime & Corruption: Two Steps Forward And Three Steps Back
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 6:46 pm | Asia Pacific AML
It is not possible to tackle threats arising from organised crime, transnational crime, corruption and fraud, without investing in intel-technology. It is for this reason sophisticated criminals succeed in removing capital from New Zealand. More >>
What Could Amazon’s Web Services Investment Mean For New Zealanders?
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 12:06 pm | Asia Pacific AML
Digitalisation has not yet hit New Zealand’s economy or businesses. Most businesses, including government agencies, are still using spreadsheets for risk analysis. More >>
On New Zealand Based USA FBI Enforcement Office
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 7:13 pm | Asia Pacific AML
The objectives of this unit will be positive news to the people of the Pacific Island communities. Hopefully the NZ-USA FBI Unit will also capture New Zealand across its web of countries that it starts monitoring and enforcing against. This would be a ... More >>
International Sanctions - Countering Financing of Terrorism
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 12:33 pm | Asia Pacific AML
When will the Western world see Israel as a sanctioned country for its acts of crime and harm to innocent civilians? More >>
International Sanctions - Countering Financing of Terrorism
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 12:31 pm | Asia Pacific AML
When will the Western world see Israel as a sanctioned country for its acts of crime and harm to innocent civilians? More >>
New Zealand AML/CFT Compliance Updates To Require A Customer Risk Rating Model
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 1:31 pm | Asia Pacific AML
Businesses that are captured under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act must now rate customers (interchangeably referred to as clients) and retain record keeping of the Customer Risk Rating Model. More >>
What Are New Zealand's Risk To Facilitating Unregulated Alternative Remittance?
Monday, 2 June 2025, 8:01 am | Asia Pacific AML
The research focuses on NZ’s AML/CFT Act and legislative framework for effectiveness to manage risks arising from traditional money remittance, also known as ‘alternative remittance’. Such methods of trading are unconventional (traditional) and emerging More >>
New Zealand Is Not Yet Capturing Alternative Remittance In Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 1:10 pm | Asia Pacific AML
Though New Zealand’s AML/CFT regime captures conventional money or value transfers that occur through a Wire Transfer, it does not capture unconventional methods of trading. More >>
Jevon McSkimming – Privacy And Democracy Vs Journalists
Saturday, 24 May 2025, 12:37 pm | Asia Pacific AML
"I don’t think journalists have yet learnt that their power of the pen or words they publish can perpetually harm a person’s livelihood, their family’s livelihood and in the case of Mr McSkimming, forever destroy his reputation and career," says ... More >>
NZ’s Ambiguity In Law Is A Weakness To Combatting Financial Crime, Trans-national Crime And Financing Of Terrorism
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 7:03 am | Asia Pacific AML
Financial exclusion is a risk that New Zealand’s Ministry of Justice and AML/CFT Supervisors have not yet fully addressed. The adverse consequence of financial exclusion is “Underground Banking”. More >>
New Zealand Continues To Breach Civil Rights To Privacy Data Laws
Friday, 28 March 2025, 8:20 am | Asia Pacific AML
Government agencies are not authorised to access customer data that a business has collected under the AML/CFT Act. Regardless, NZ government agencies are utilising powers that are not authorised and collating data against New Zealanders outside ... More >>
