New Zealand's Financial Intelligence Unit and ACAMS co-host the 2026 AML/CFT Conference at Takina in Wellington from 3 to 5 November 2026, bringing anti-money-laundering professionals, reporting entities and supervisors together under the theme 'From Intelligence to Impact'.
The 2026 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Conference will run from Tuesday 3 November to Thursday 5 November 2026 at the Takina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre. Commonly known as the FIU/ACAMS Conference, the three-day programme carries the theme "From Intelligence to Impact: Turning Financial Data into Disruption" and is offered in a hybrid format, with the main conference available both in person and online.
The conference is hosted by the New Zealand Financial Intelligence Unit (NZFIU), which sits within New Zealand Police, in partnership with the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the international professional body for anti-financial-crime specialists. According to the organiser's official page on the New Zealand Police website, the agenda opens on 3 November with an inaugural Case Study Symposium delivered by NZ Police specialists, followed by the main conference sessions on 4 and 5 November, a supervisor workshop led by the Department of Internal Affairs, and "Eat & Engage" lunchtime sessions featuring keynote speakers Andy Marsh and Melinda Murray.
The event is aimed at AML/CFT practitioners across both the public and private sectors: reporting entities, sector supervisors, and government and private-sector subject-matter experts working to detect and disrupt money laundering and terrorism financing. New Zealand's AML/CFT regime is overseen by three supervisors — the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Financial Markets Authority and the Department of Internal Affairs — whose constituencies make up much of the professional audience.
Takina opened in mid-2023 as Wellington's largest convention centre. It spans roughly 18,000 square metres over two levels, with more than 10,000 square metres of flexible meeting and exhibition space and a 1,280-square-metre exhibition gallery described as the largest in New Zealand; plenary configurations seat up to 1,600 delegates, and it regularly handles conferences from around 300 to 1,500 attendees. As neutral logistics context for delegates, the centre sits in the central city directly across from Te Papa, is about 15 minutes from Wellington Airport, and is within an easy walk of a range of CBD hotels in one of the world's more compact, walkable capital cities.
A recurring, government-anchored national conference of this kind is a steady anchor tenant for Wellington's business-events calendar. It draws a professional audience from across the country and overseas into the capital for several days, fills convention and exhibition space at Takina, and reinforces Wellington's positioning as the natural host city for government and regulatory sector events.
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