MEDIA ADVISORY OF JANUARY 5, 2005

The world’s largest and most respected annual international money laundering conference is drawing another world-record crowd from all corners of the world.

To date, there are close to 500 attendees already registered. They are traveling from 24 countries, including Pakistan, Zambia, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico and UK. Our conference will draw more than 1,000 attendees.

NEWS FROM THE 53 SPEAKERS: 53 speakers on 32 panels and workshops include the first president of the new Middle East-North Africa terrorist financing task force (Muhammad Baasiri); the Director of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (William Fox) and the new director of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Robert Werner); the global anti-money laundering officers of Citigroup ( Richard Small) and Bank of America (Daniel Soto); the top anti-money laundering officer of the World Bank (Ted Greenburg) and the Head of the Economic Crime Section of the Council of Europe (Gianluca Esposito).

SUMMIT ON TERRORIST FINANCING: The opening panel, “Summit on Terrorist Financing”, will feature the authors of the 9/11 Commission’s terrorist financing monograph, John Roth and Douglas Greenburg; the new director of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Robert Werner; the Director of the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, William Fox; and James Richards, Bank of America’s global Anti-Money Laundering Operations Executive and one of the most respected innovators in the anti-money laundering arena.

MEDIA CREDENTIALS: Our conference will provide a press room for interviews and press conferences. The media will not be permitted to ask questions during the conference sessions but will have access to the speakers on many other occasions, including two cocktail receptions.

Accredited members of the press may obtain credentials by contacting Alejandra Slatapolsky at aslatapolsky@moneylaundering.com or by calling (305) 530-0500.

Full information about the conference, including a full list of the panels and speakers is found at www.moneylaunderingconference.com. The full color conference brochure is attached and may also be found on the website in PDF.

Miami-based Money Laundering Alert and Moneylaundering.com Premium are the world’s foremost sources of money laundering news, analysis and guidance. In addition to the annual international conference in South Florida, Money Laundering Alert and Moneylaundering.comPremium also conduct annual money laundering conferences in Latin America and Europe.

Registration information is also available at www.moneylaunderingconference.com