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Anti-Money Laundering Consultants Limited provides consulting services throughout New Zealand.  We can assist your business in conducting a risk assessment and we will guide you in developing cost effective systems and controls for your compliance programme. 

Our technical and practical knowledge will reduce your exposure to regulatory action and reputational damage.  

Consulting services include -

  • Advice on all aspects of AML CFT obligations
  • Conducting or reviewing AML CFT risk assessments
  • Developing or reviewing AML CFT programmes
  • Policies
  • Presentations
  • Training

The Principal of Anti-Money Laundering Consultants Limited is Kerry Grass.   Kerry has 17 years analytical experience and 8 years of AML CFT experience (local and international).   She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and holds a Diploma in AML and a Diploma in Financial Markets.  She has completed university papers in Fraud Prevention, Criminal Law and Business Law and is studying towards a Masters in Applied Finance. 

Her previous positions include -

  • AML CFT Adviser at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand;
  • AML Compliance Manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia;
  • Assistant Vice President and Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer at the Bank of New York;
  • Supervisory Associate and Financial Crime Expert at the Financial Services Authority in the UK;
  • Investigator at the Australian Securities & Investments Commission.


As an AML CFT Adviser at the Reserve Bank of NZ, Kerry worked closely with the Ministry of Justice and assisted in the drafting of the AML CFT Act.  Whilst at the Reserve Bank she also developed the AML CFT sector risk framework and sector risk survey.  

In her other positions she was responsible for AML CFT compliance and worked closely with medium to large size organisations, assessing their exposure to operational risk, regulatory risk and financial crime.  Having worked at the Financial Services Authority (the UK’s sole financial services regulator) she is well versed in applying the risk based approach to regulatory requirements.