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• ACFE Wellington event: NZX Surveillance: What We Do and How We Do It

  • When
    24 Feb 2026
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Level 12/20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington - and online

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  Join us for an insightful session exploring how NZX’s Surveillance team works to uphold the integrity, fairness, and transparency of New Zealand’s capital markets. In this presentation, Phil will provide a high‑level overview of how NZX monitors trading activity across the market, with a focus on two key areas of regulatory surveillance: Potential market manipulation – including how unusual trading patterns are identified, analysed, and assessed. Potential insider trading – with an explanation of the indicators, data sources, and escalation processes involved. The session will also include real‑world case studies illustrating how surveillance tools and analytical techniques are applied in practice, offering attendees a practical understanding of how issues are detected, investigated, and managed. Whether you work in compliance, trading, risk, financial markets, governance, or simply want to better understand how market integrity is protected, this session will provide valuable insights into NZX’s surveillance framework and the important role it plays in New Zealand’s financial ecosystem. We look forward to having you join us. Presenter Profile – Phil Solarz Phil Solarz is the Head of Surveillance at NZ RegCo, a role he has held since December 2020. He leads the team responsible for monitoring New Zealand’s capital markets to uphold fairness, transparency, and integrity. Prior to joining NZ RegCo, Phil served as the Principal Surveillance Analyst at NZX Limited from October 2018 to December 2020, where he played a key role in detecting and analysing unusual market activity and supporting regulatory outcomes. Phil brings extensive experience from a long career in financial markets, having worked in both New Zealand and Hong Kong across various regulatory and market‑facing roles. His deep expertise in market conduct, trading behaviour, and surveillance technologies underpins his strong reputation in the industry. Phil's international and domestic experience makes him uniquely positioned to share valuable insights into market surveillance practices and the evolving landscape of market integrity regulation. ADMINISTRATION: 1. Issues registering for the event: If you are having issues with registering for the event, it is likely that it relates to your membership being unpaid. We kindly ask you to settle your account in advance of the event. If you have paid and are still experiencing issues, please contact Lisa Attrill at lisa_attrill@hotmail.com. 2. In person attendees (Wellington only): For those attending in person, please arrive prior to 5.30pm as the main doors close at that time.  3. Online attendees: For those attending online, please note the presentation will commence around 5:45pm. We ask that those who intend on attending online register at least 24 hours in advance of the event to ensure you receive the online link.

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• ACFE Christchurch March Event: Following the Money: Inside Narcotics, Money Laundering & Asset Recovery

  • When
    19 Mar 2026
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    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Deloitte, Level 4, 151 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch

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  Nicola Suter is a barrister and solicitor admitted in New Zealand, Australia, and England & Wales, with a career spanning commercial law, complex asset recovery, and international justice‑sector reform.

  Nicola has served in London’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), first in the Proceeds of Crime Division conducting asset recovery cases, then in the International Division as a senior policy adviser overseeing CPS engagement across the Eastern Caribbean, West Africa, and Pakistan, including participation on the UK team evaluating Pakistan’s compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption.

  Nicola then worked in the Caribbean region. At the British High Commission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Nicola mentored prosecutors with all stages of their serious criminal matters, with a focus on money laundering and asset recovery. Nicola then moved into her role as Senior Financial Crimes Legal Adviser with the US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) where she advanced reforms that make justice systems more accessible, efficient, and rights‑respecting for vulnerable communities.

  Nicola currently contributes her expertise to the National Center for State Courts, an organisation recognised globally for elevating justice system performance and strengthening the rule of law. Her work helps courts anticipate emerging challenges, adopt best practices, and innovate in the delivery of justice.

  Nicola will share some key insights from her extensive career and draw on real-world case studies spanning narcotics, cryptocurrency, money laundering and asset recovery.

  We intend this event to be interactive and encourage you to ask questions along the way and time will be allowed for Q&A at the end of the presentation.

  We are pleased to be able to offer this event as both online and in person to our ACFE members across New Zealand. A link for online attendance will be emailed to registrants who have opted to attend online a few days prior to the event.

  This event starts from 4.30pm with networking and nibbles with the presentation to commence at approximately 5pm. For online attendees, the presentation will run approximately between 5pm and 5.45pm.

  We look forward to seeing you there.

  Join us for an informative and engaging evening with Nicola and your fellow ACFE members. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and network with fellow professionals.

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