Dear Financial Markets Authority,
I am seeking to find out about costs and benefits of FMA's participation in the ACAMS conference this October.

Please advise me of the staff attending （names not required):
-How many staff are attending
-What the job title of each attendee is and how each staff member will be improved in their specific job by attending as looking at the agenda for the conference and FMAs very limited role in the AML regime it is hard to see how more than a third of the conference content offers real value to them.
-Where in NZ each attendee in each role is based and on what basis they were chosen to attend
-How much tax payer money was paid for the attendance of each staff member
-How much tax payer money will be spent on travel and accommodation and food/other expenses for each staff member that these expenses applied to
-How much money if any FMA contributed to funding the conference

For membership of ACAMS and other professional bodies please provide:
-How many of your staff are members of ACAMS or other AML related professional bodies in cases that FMA pays for their membership
-What actual benefit they get in terms of their ability to better do their jobs from these memberships

More generally
-Please provide a detailed explanation of your AML group and its locations and structures
-Please provide salary details for each role
-Please provide a detailed explanation of what each role in the team actually entails in their job.
-Please provide details of all testing that is undertaken on potential recruits for the AML group and the associated criteria that the Department looks for
-Please provide detailed demographic information as captured by the optional starter equal opportunities voluntary information and any internal reviews. To include gender, ethnicity , professional background and any other demographic captured. Please break this down by role, team and geographic location and please provide this data longitudinally for the last five years (snapshots at three or six monthly intervals will be acceptable)

Yours faithfully,

Ciaren McGuire