Together with Central 1 Credit Union (C1) and CU Training (www.cutraining.com), MNP LLP (MNP) is presenting the Money Laundering Risk Cross Country Tour.  The tour will visit major centres across Canada with a half-day session exploring contemporary money laundering threats and risks impacting all sectors of Canadian financial services companies.  Speakers will include local law enforcement, prosecutorial and intelligence experts, together with anti-money laundering experts from MNP and C1.  Empowered with information about recent, relevant, and authoritative money laundering examples, financial service company representatives will be able to keep their documented training and money laundering risk assessment up-to-date, and their money laundering controls current.

Please complete the registration form, noting the session you would like to attend, to receive a registration package.  A registration fee of $350 per person applies to each session, with the exception of the Halifax leg of the tour, which is being held in conjunction with the Atlantic Central http://atlanticcentral.ca/ as part of its Risk Management Conference.

Representatives from WM-AML will remain in the region of each session for the balance of the week for consultations with interested financial services companies.

Anti-Money Laundering Officers, Compliance Officers, In-house Counsel, Internal Auditors and Heads of Security in:

By the end of the tour’s sessions, participants will:

Half day session. MNP’s Regina offices at Suite 900, Royal Bank Building, 2010 – 11th Avenue, Phone: 306.790.7900

Parking available at: Cornwall Centre, 2102 11 Avenue, S4P 2G2 (306) 525-1301‎ · cornwallcentre.ca

Partner, MNP LLP. - Brian is responsible for investigations in the area of due diligence and background inquiries, fraud, theft, secret commissions, foreign corruption, money laundering and the assessment of risk for client businesses across Canada. A former under-cover RCMP officer, Brian operated a currency exchange business in downtown Vancouver for a period of two years. The operation focused on laundering money for major criminal organizations involved in smuggling and the drug trade. More than $41 million was exchanged – one of the country’s most successful operations in history.

National AML Practice Leader, MNP LLP.

Co-Founder, Canadian Institute for Financial Crime Analysis

Co-Instructor, Advanced Investigative Related Matters, Diploma of Investigative and Forensic Accounting, University of Toronto

Time	Session Title and Speaker	Session Objective/Description
12:30 p.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Matthew McGuire
12:45 p.m.	Law Enforcement Perspective: Brian Tario	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Investigative Methods: A Former Under-cover RCMP officer and current partner at MNP’s observations on Prevalent Money Laundering Offences, Transactions and Techniques in Saskatchewan.
2:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Consultant Perspective Matthew McGuire	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Risk Mitigation Practices/Investigative Methods: The risk based approach (RBA) to anti-money laundering was adopted by the FATF to result in a more informed allocation of resources to detect, prevent, and deter money laundering. Broad guidelines were also meant to encourage innovation. The adoption of the RBA in Canada has resulted in a wide range of approaches to risk assessment and mitigation. Matthew has observed many different approaches, and had the opportunity to evaluate their effectiveness in the course of independent reviews. During this session, Matthew will explain the different models he has observed for the RBA across sectors and institution sizes, and the evolution/convergence of practices towards a focus on effectiveness outcomes.
5:00 p.m.	Bringing It All Together: Round-Table Discussion	During this round-table discussion, prepared questions and audience queries will drive debate among industry experts, about money laundering threats, outlooks, the effectiveness of private and public efforts to constraint money laundering and crime, and areas for collaboration.
5:50 p.m.	Reception – Location T.B.A.

Vancouver Session, May 3rd, 2012.

Calgary Session, September 26, 2011, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Time	Session Title and Speaker	Session Objective/Description
12:30 p.m.	Welcome and Opening RemarksMatthew McGuire
12:45 p.m.	Law Enforcement Perspective: Karl Wilberg	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Investigative Methods: Civil forfeiture has been an effective tool in depriving criminals of their ill-gotten gains.  It permits states to seize and retain criminal assets, and assets used to perpetrate crimes expeditiously – without having to meet the criminal burden of “beyond a reasonable doubt”.  Karl Wilberg administers that program for Alberta Justice, and daily observes the ways that criminals own and move their assets and money to protect it from investigation, seizure and forfeiture.  His session will provide insights about those methods, and the ways they might show up in the transactions of a financial institution.
1:40 p.m.	Credit Union Perspective: Chris Galloway	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Risk Mitigation Practices: Although they offer similar products and services to banks, credit unions are different:  their customers are also member/owners.  Popular anecdotes about credit unions support theories that member familiarity prevents money laundering risk, but also that the level of familiarity precludes objective inquiries and examination into transaction purposes and the provenance of funds.  Chris Galloway is the Anti-Money Laundering Risk Management Officer for Central 1 Credit Union, with responsibilities for credit unions in British Columbia and Ontario.  In the course of his role, he sees real examples of the ways that credit unions are exploited for money laundering, and the state of their money laundering risk management.  Chris will share his observations about those instances of money laundering, and the apparent effectiveness of those risk management techniques.
2:30 p.m.	Break
2:50 p.m.	Provincial Financial Institution PerspectiveMonica Stark	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Investigative Methods: Economic prosperity in Alberta has benefited legal and illegal operations.  Operating province-wide, ATB’s AML group is keenly aware of those trends, and applies sophisticated technology their tactical and strategic responses to them.  Monica Stark leads that operation, and will be explaining how that risk monitoring technology is set up, what it has been finding, and where manual processes fit.
3:30 p.m.	Federally Regulated Financial Institution PerspectiveMarnie Cross	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Investigative Methods: Federally regulated financial institutions are held to a different standard in for risk assessment and mitigation.  And since their clients are often spread across the country, they have more work to do on considering geographic risk.  Marnie Cross is a senior manager of compliance at Resmor Trust, which offers deposit and loan products through agents and online channels throughout the country.  She will provide a view on the geographic money laundering risks she perceives in Alberta, in terms of a centre for generating, transferring, and being home to the proceeds of crime.
4:10 p.m.	Consultant PerspectiveMatthew McGuire	Knowledge of Prevalent Typologies and Risks/Risk Mitigation Practices/Investigative Methods: The risk based approach (RBA) to anti-money laundering was adopted by the FATF to result in a more informed allocation of resources to detect, prevent, and deter money laundering.  Broad guidelines were also meant to encourage innovation.  The adoption of the RBA in Canada has resulted in a wide range of approaches to risk assessment and mitigation.  Matthew has observed many different approaches, and had the opportunity to evaluate their effectiveness in the course of independent reviews.  During this session, Matthew will explain the different models he has observed for the RBA across sectors and institution sizes, and the evolution/convergence of practices towards a focus on effectiveness outcomes.
5:00 p.m.	Bringing It All Together: Round-Table DiscussionMarnie Cross Chris Galloway Matthew McGuire (Moderator) Patrick O’Brien Monica Stark Karl Wilberg	During this round-table discussion, prepared questions and audience queries will drive debate among industry experts, about money laundering threats, outlooks, the effectiveness of private and public efforts to constraint money laundering and crime, and areas for collaboration.Special guest Patrick O’Brien will bring his experience in training and education as a risk management measure to the round-table discussion.
5:50 p.m.	Reception – Location T.B.A.

Toronto Session, March 8, 2011, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Confirmed Speakers:

Mr. Barry Hawn

Dr. Jayesh D’Souza

Mr. Chris Galloway

Mr. Matthew McGuire

Mr. Peter Warrack

Schedule:

Time	Session Details	Speaker
12:30 p.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Matthew McGuire
12:45 p.m.	Law Enforcement Perspective: A Forensic Accountant’s Observations on Prevalent Money Laundering Offences, Transactions and Techniques in Ontario	Barry Hawn
1:40 p.m.	Academic Perspective: International money laundering studies, and their messages for money laundering risks in Canada	Jayesh D’Souza
2:30 p.m.	Break
2:50 p.m.	Financial Institution Perspective:  Macro trends and case examples of money laundering reports generated by financial institutions in Ontario	Chris Galloway
3:40 p.m.	Consultant Perspective: Developing your risk based approach to track and control contemporary money laundering  trends	Matthew McGuire
4:30 p.m.	Bringing It All Together:  Round table discussion and question and answer period.	Jayesh D’Souza Chris GallowayBarry HawnMatthew McGuire Peter Warrack
5:20 p.m.	Reception