AML/CFT templates, publications and resources

This comprehensive manual with templates has been developed by Strategi Institute and is a complete guide for those who need to meet AML/CFT obligations. This manual – complete with appendices and checklists – is designed specifically for small to medium-sized businesses who are deemed to be reporting entities. This manual can be provided in either hard copy or electronic format... Read more

Reporting entities are required to report suspicious transactions in a prescribed form to the Commissioner of Police. That prescribed form, and the means by which it must be submitted, is goAML Web. All reporting entities must register with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) before they can access goAML Web. If you do not register on the goAML Web, then you will not be able to file... Read more

This guidance note has been prepared to help reporting entities understand their obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (the “Act”) in relation to politically exposed persons (PEPs). It first defines a PEP, and then explains reporting entities’ obligations to reasonably determine the PEP status of their customers, both at the... Read more

This guidance note is prepared to help reporting entities (REs) to update their AML/CFT risk assessment, and programme in the light of: Updated guidelines published, in May 2018, by the AML/CFT supervisors; The most recent National Risk Assessment and Quarterly Typology Reports published by the Financial Intelligence Unit of the NZ Police, and the Sector Risk Assessment... Read more