Cost Benefit Analysis: AML Phase 2 [pdf, 105 KB]
...was removed from the EU white list of counties over a perception about the country's weak money laundering and terrorism financing controls. This affected the ability of EU trading partners to accept and acknowledge customer identification performed in New Zealand, leading to increased compliance costs for trading with the EEC. This list no longer formally exists, so it is not clear whether recent changes to the NZ frameworks around trusts, ML, and incorporation would have been suffi...