|
Press Release
For Immediate release
January 30, 2006
Contacts:
Alejandra Slatapolsky(press credentials)
Danielle Scott (conference inquiries)
Editor@moneylaundering.com
Telephone: 305-530-0500
800-232-3652 (in USA)
www.moneylaundering.com
www.lavadodinero.com
Laundering and terrorist threats from pre-paid cards, landmark lawsuits against
bank directors among 27 panels
at upcoming moneylaundering.com conference
Sixty-one experts on 27 panels will share their knowledge and guidance with a worldwide
audience of 1,300 professionals at the moneylaundering.com and Money Laundering
Alert 11 th Annual International Money Laundering Conference and Exhibition from
March 15 to 17, 2006.
Year’s hot cases dissected
The Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida USA will serve as the venue of the conference,
which will place a laser on the money laundering vulnerabilities of pre-paid cards,
the recent money laundering-related and regulatory sins of major institutions like
ABN AMRO, AmSouth, Bank of New York, and Oppenheimer & Co., the recent spate
of successful lawsuits against members of bank boards for the money laundering-related
problems of the institutions and 24 other panels and workshops.
Pre-paid cards lead the program
Pre-paid cards, which are a major challenge for law enforcement and regulators because
of their ease of acquisition, pervasiveness and anonymity, will be the focus of
the first panel. They permit almost undetectable movement of money across national
boundaries. Top government officials and card company executives will address the
problems on this panel.
Another session will focus on the legal actions that money laundering victims are
successfully pursuing in U.S. courts. In cases against the members of the bank boards
of the Bank of New York and Riggs Bank, stockholders have achieved court victories.
The lawyers who achieved success in these landmark cases will explain how they did
it.
Regional issues also get focus
Conference panels will also explore the hot button money laundering and terrorist
financing issues in Latin America, Canada, the European Union, the Caribbean, and
the Middle East.
The money laundering.com and Money Laundering Alert annual international conference
in South Florida is the world’s largest on the subject. Registrations are
on pace to eclipse the 2005 record of 1,253 attendees from 61 countries.
Speakers include top public and private sector officials
The 61 speakers include Jeffrey Breinholt, deputy chief of counterterrorism of the
U.S. Department of Justice, Richard Weber, chief of the money laundering section
of the U.S. Department of Justice, William Langford, a top regulatory official of
the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Ian Mullen, chairman of the UK Joint
Money Laundering Steering Group, John Byrne, executive vice president of Bank of
America, Jim Richards, AML technology pioneer and anti-money laundering officer
of Wells Fargo, as well as senior officials of the Federal Reserve, FDIC, SEC and
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Exhibition Hall with 70 exhibitors
In a large Exhibition Hall, attendees can also meet officials from 70 companies
and firms that offer software, products and professional services in the growing
anti-money laundering marketplace.
The conference, which provides free simultaneous English-to-Spanish translation,
uses a lively audience-participation format in which expert moderators pose questions
to the panelists and allow attendees to also ask questions.
The pdf of the conference brochure is attached. Updates to the conference program
and the speakers are found at moneylaunderingconference.com, money laundering.com
or lavadodinero.com, in Spanish.
Money Laundering Alert and moneylaundering.com are based in Miami and are the foremost
sources of money laundering news, intelligence, analysis and guidance in the world.
The company also conducts annual money laundering conferences in Europe and Latin
America. Visit moneylaundering.com, or our Spanish-language website, lavadodinero.com,
to find out more.
Press credentials
(Accredited members of the press may obtain press credentials to cover the conference
by contacting Alejandra Slatapolsky at aslatapolsky@moneylaundering.com or by calling
305-530-0500 or 800-232-3652 in the United States.)
|