OVERVIEW

THE WORLD'S BEST MONEY LAUNDERING CONFERENCE

This is the conference everyone talks about. Engaging, enriching and rewarding, it makes the attendee the star of the show. We meet your need for state-of-the-art, practical knowledge to help you do your job better in the private or public sectors. We give you expert guidance on the legal requirements you face. Understanding the importance of contacts with experts and counterparts, we provide many networking events so you can meet people who can help you do your job better.

The overwhelming endorsement and praise that our conference attendees give us year after year is the best evidence that we succeed in meeting your needs.

We do everything possible to foster your enrichment • We attract top expert speakers • We present a program of timely panels on crucial issues of the day • We provide an outstanding Conference Bookand CD-ROM with priceless materials from speakers and Money Laundering Alert’s editors • We utilize a unique format that allows you, the moderators and other attendees to question the speakers • We provide real-time guidance during the sessions to complement the live presentations • We bring you the world’s top providers of anti-money laundering (AML) software, services and products so you can meet them face-to-face.

MORE CHALLENGES AND COMPLEXITIES

No field of regulation, law enforcement or international affairs generates the controversies, changes and costs that the money laundering field does. And, it gets more challenging and complex each year for all the businesses that are covered under the growing body of laws and regulations that governments around the world enact and issue with regularity.

Those businesses, including all types of financial institutions such as insurance complanies and securities dealers, money transmitters, commercial businesses, face new rules and great risks if they go astray of what the government expects.

Government regulators, law enforcement agents and intelligence officers encounter new challenges in terrorist financing and money laundering methods each day. Pre-paid cards, international
trade and precious metals are just some of them. Expanded risks also confront instituions and businesses as regulators now conduct bank examinations in the United States under revolutionary uniform procedures.

The U.S. securities industry is no longer untouched by major Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) penalties for weak money laundering controls, as Oppenheimer & Co. can attest. And, BSA penalties on banks operating in the U.S., especially those based in other countries, now routinely reach eight-digit sums, as ABN AMRO, AmSouth, Arab Bank and Israel Discount Bank exemplify.

The new U.S. FinCEN regulations on due diligence for the accounts of non-U.S. correspondent accounts and private banking customers will affect tens of thousands of institutions and wealthy individuals around the globe, especially “politically exposed persons,” or PEPs, as they are known in the AML field. Staying informed and learning the best practices on how to cope with these changes are essential steps in self-protection.

NEW PANELS, NEW SPEAKERS, NEW WORKSHOPS

As usual, our program includes many new panels that reflect current hot topics. We are bringing in more than 40 new expert speakers and offer three free post-conference workshops to better meet your needs.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from top experts, to ask them the questions that perplex you, to meet your counterparts from around the world, and to learn the best practices from leading authorities in the field.

ATTENDEES SAY THIS CONFERENCE IS THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS

Nearly 90% of the 25,000 financial institution and government officials, professionals, and others who have been trained at the moneylaundering.com and Money Laundering Alert conferences and seminars since 1990 rate them “Excellent.”

ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE, STRONG AML DEFENSES, BEST PRACTICES – YOU GET IT ALL!

The latest scandals at ABN AMRO, Oppenheimer & Co., AmSouth, Arab Bank and other institutions highlight gaps in compliance and, sometimes, government supervision. They also provide great lessons on what you must do to avoid following in their footsteps how to do things the right way.

• These cases and the new regulations that the U.S. Treasury Department and other national government agencies have issued presage tougher examinations and regulation.
• New threats, such as pre-paid cards and stockholder lawsuits against the officers and directors of financial institutions that have had money laundering-related confrontations with the regulators and prosecutors, raise the stakes in the AML field for the institutions and the government.
• The search for corruption proceeds in the private banking accounts of non-U.S. persons has become a subject of great interest on the AML agendas of governments and institutions worldwide. The warm welcome many banks, broker-dealers, lawyers and realtors extended to crooked “PEPs” is now undertaken at great risk.
• No financial institution, business or their money is beyond the “extraterritorial” reach
  of U.S. laws and regulations. Learn how these laws affect you and your customers.
• Civil and criminal penalties and bad publicity can wreck businesses and careers. Learn what to do when you are in the government’s sights.

The moneylaundering.com and Money Laundering Alert world-class conference guides you through these landmines. Our attendees from around the globe know we provide expert, timely, authoritative, practical guidance and knowledge they can use now!

YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS

Our lively interactive format where you ask questions is one reason our conference is so popular. Expert moderators also question the panelists and elicit their expert guidance. Our attendees say they learn much more this way.

• Do you want to know how to conduct due diligence for non-U.S. correspondent and private banking accounts under the new U.S. “Section 312 Rule”?
• Or what the real money laundering threats are from open system, reloadable pre-paid cards?
• Or what legal theories have succeeded in recent stockholder lawsuits against officers and directors of institutions that get into laundering-related problems?
• Or what you must do to determine if a customer is a PEP and has corruption proceeds?
• Or how to conduct a good internal investigation and mine the treasures of the free Web for your due diligence work?
• Or how to score money laundering risks of customers and accounts so that you use your resources wisely and effectively?

You ask the experts!

LEADING EXPERTS ARE THE MODERATORS

In our conference, leading experts facilitate and moderate our panels and the three free post-conference workshops. They maximize your learning and the speakers’ presentations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE CONFERENCE

• Anti-Money Laundering and Money Laundering Reporting Officers
• Bankers
• Securities Dealers
• Money Services Businesses
• Insurance Company Counsel, Risk and Compliance Officers
• Law Enforcement Agents, Supervisors, Analysts
• Government Regulators
• Intelligence Officers
• Credit, Pre-Paid and Debit Card Companies
• Lawyers – Corporate, Litigation and Defense
  Certified Public Accountants
• Anti-Money Laundering Consultants
• Mutual Fund Managers
• Real Estate Brokers
• Investment Advisors
• Non-Financial Businesses, Like Jewelers

BENEFITS AND ENRICHMENT EVERYWHERE YOU TURN FOR THREE DAYS!

• Learn Best Practices and Guidance from Top Experts
• 27 Panels, 55 Speakers, 65 Exhibitors, 1,200 Attendees
• 2 Receptions, 2 Luncheons, Great Networking
• Free Simultaneous English-to-Spanish Translation
• Education credits: 3 ACAMS and up to 15-20 CPE, CLE or CRCM credits.
• (And Fabulous South Florida Weather)

SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WILL LEARN

• What the regulators expect in your due diligence programs for correspondent banks and private banking accounts.
• What governments are doing – and not doing – to control the laundering dangers of pre-paid cards.
• How OFAC compliance is now more manageable with the help of the U.S. Examiners’ Manual.
• What U.S. life insurance companies can expect in their examinations by the SEC and IRS.
• How a securities dealer can mount a good AML program and avoid the problems Oppenheimer & Co. had.
• What new industries are the likely next subjects of U.S. “anti-money laundering program” duties.
• How ABN AMRO, AmSouth, Arab Bank and others got into trouble and how you can avoid those problems.
• Why stockholders have been succeeding in lawsuits against directors of banks for their institutions’ laundering and regulatory fiascos.
• How Deferred Prosecution Agreements, like the one imposed on AmSouth, work and how the Justice Department uses them.
• How to get the most out of your AML software and mine the hidden treasures of the Internet for due diligence.
• What the latest best practices are in risk scoring your customers and products.
• What a good money laundering training program really looks like and who should attend – and much more!
  

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