Hong Kong 28 - 29 June 2007

The Kowloon Renaissance, TST, Hong Kong.  

Day One Thursday 28 June 2007

08:00 Registration

08:45 Delegates Seated

09:00 Forum Opens

09:10 Keynote

09:40 Morning Chairman Introduces theme: The Impact of Financial Crime

09: 50 – Money Laundering – the size of the problem comparing Australia and The Netherlands

            John Walker, Crime Trends Analysis, Australia

10:50 – Morning Coffee

11:20 - The price of financial crime. From individual victims to society as a whole, the price of financial crime is huge, and that price is often far more than money. How much does it cost to combat financial crime? The cost to government and enterprises. Case studies demonstrate the wider impact of financial crime – 

12:20 More Pressure for Offshore: how the US aims to destroy the lucrative offshore business of Hong Kong, Singapore and others.

            Nigel Morris-Cotterill, Head, The Anti Money Laundering Network

13:20 Lunch.

14:20 Afternoon chairman introduces theme: Hidden Trades

14:30 Blood timber – how illicit trade in timber supports terrorism and organised crime

            Mary Melnyk, US AID, Washington DC.

15:30  Counterfeit drugs: origins and destination of product and money

           John McFarland, Hill and Associates, Singapore

16:30  The modern slave trade: how child prostitution and the white slave trade thrives in South East Asia

          Roland Pacis, Deputy Director, Visayan Forum, Philippines  

Day Two - Friday 29 June 2007

08:50 Morning chairman introduces theme: Hidden Money

09:00 Remittances: discoveries and developments in the movement of money including the growth of electronic funds transfer systems by internet –

10:00 Identifying and tracking terrorist funds in South East Asia

         Petrus Golose, Superintendent of Police, Anti-Terrorist Specialist,  Indonesia

11:00 Morning Coffee

11:30 AUSTRAC's Intelligence under the new AML/CTF legislation, Rules and Guidelines Environment.

        Claude Colasante, Senior Manager, Operational Intelligence, AUSTRAC.  

12:30 Linking drugs trafficking and terrorism on the Pakistan Border

         Mr Mhd Shiraz, Director, Pakistan Intelligence Services 

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Afternoon Chairman introduces theme: Hidden People

14:45 Computer crime: developments in on and off line security including user authentication

15:45 Afternoon Tea

16:00 Practitioner banker: the development of a CDD program for investment banks from scratch in a transition economy

       Mrs Maheswari Kanniah, Senior Vice President / Head of Group Compliance, RHB Investment Bank Bhd, Malaysia.

17:00 Forum Chairman's wrap up

17:15 Close

Programme subject to change          v1.3      20070402