Friday, 28 February 2025
Practical AML Lessons (and Wartime Stories) from an AML Auditor
- Common findings from:
- Customer due diligence (CDD)
- Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
- Entity and client risk assessments
- Training
- AML battle stories from the frontlines
- Behind the lines: using emerging tech to outsmart financial foes
Presented by Martin Dilly, CAMS-Audit, Director, Martin Dilly AML
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Will Irving, Partner, Russell McVeagh
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common compliance gaps in CDD, SARs, training, and risk assessments from real AML audits
- Learn how legal professionals can leverage technology and audit insights to strengthen AML/CFT practices
Presenters
Martin Dilly, CAMS-Audit, Director, Martin Dilly AML
Martin has consulted full-time as an AML/CFT specialist since 2012. He has assisted entities across every sector of capture through the provision of audit, consulting, and training services in New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, and Vanuatu.
Prior to forming Martin Dilly AML, Martin commenced his career as a corporate solicitor at Russell McVeagh and held senior legal and compliance roles at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. – New Zealand and with Heartland Building Society as Head of Compliance. During his time with Heartland, Martin also acted as company secretary for NZSX-listed company, Heartland New Zealand Limited.
Martin is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and was the first person in Australasia to gain the CAMS Audit advanced certification. He has been internationally recognised by being appointed to the ACAMS teaching faculties for CAMS and CAMS-Audit.
Martin has presented at AML/CFT conferences in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
Will Irving, Partner, Russell McVeagh
Will is a partner in Russell McVeagh's litigation practice, based in the Auckland office. Specialising in commercial litigation, his expertise spans financial services, regulatory enforcement, and disputes involving property, tax, and ICT. His experience includes acting for financial institutions in investigations by New Zealand’s financial regulators, with a particular focus on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act, the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, and the Financial Markets Conduct Act. He has represented clients in significant cases, including acting for Tiger Brokers in proceedings brought by the FMA in relation to AML/CFT Act compliance. Will’s accolades include recognition in the Best Lawyers® New Zealand 2024 Guide for Arbitration and Mediation and Litigation, and he was named a Rising Star in 2020 by NZ Lawyer magazine.
Friday, 28 February 2025
Practical AML Lessons (and Wartime Stories) from an AML Auditor
- Common findings from:
- Customer due diligence (CDD)
- Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
- Entity and client risk assessments
- Training
- AML battle stories from the frontlines
- Behind the lines: using emerging tech to outsmart financial foes
Presented by Martin Dilly, CAMS-Audit, Director, Martin Dilly AML
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Will Irving, Partner, Russell McVeagh
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common compliance gaps in CDD, SARs, training, and risk assessments from real AML audits
- Learn how legal professionals can leverage technology and audit insights to strengthen AML/CFT practices
Presenters
Martin Dilly, CAMS-Audit, Director, Martin Dilly AML
Martin has consulted full-time as an AML/CFT specialist since 2012. He has assisted entities across every sector of capture through the provision of audit, consulting, and training services in New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, and Vanuatu.
Prior to forming Martin Dilly AML, Martin commenced his career as a corporate solicitor at Russell McVeagh and held senior legal and compliance roles at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. – New Zealand and with Heartland Building Society as Head of Compliance. During his time with Heartland, Martin also acted as company secretary for NZSX-listed company, Heartland New Zealand Limited.
Martin is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and was the first person in Australasia to gain the CAMS Audit advanced certification. He has been internationally recognised by being appointed to the ACAMS teaching faculties for CAMS and CAMS-Audit.
Martin has presented at AML/CFT conferences in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
Will Irving, Partner, Russell McVeagh
Will is a partner in Russell McVeagh's litigation practice, based in the Auckland office. Specialising in commercial litigation, his expertise spans financial services, regulatory enforcement, and disputes involving property, tax, and ICT. His experience includes acting for financial institutions in investigations by New Zealand’s financial regulators, with a particular focus on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act, the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, and the Financial Markets Conduct Act. He has represented clients in significant cases, including acting for Tiger Brokers in proceedings brought by the FMA in relation to AML/CFT Act compliance. Will’s accolades include recognition in the Best Lawyers® New Zealand 2024 Guide for Arbitration and Mediation and Litigation, and he was named a Rising Star in 2020 by NZ Lawyer magazine.