As a result of understanding the private sector's role in our societies and for perceiving the risky consequences of the money laundering processes on our region, UNIEXPO continues its unprecedented performance for managing and organizing the " FIRST KUWAIT & MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE FOR COMBATING MONEY LAUNDERING" under the motto " RISKS & TRENDS ". This conference is to be taken place on the land of Kuwait for the first time. It will be held at Arraya Ballroom - Courtyard Marriott Hotel from 4 to 7 November 2006. This international event is honored by the patronage of HH Sheikh Nasir Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the prime Minster of Kuwait.

OBJECTIVES

- Acquaint participants with the changing nature of money laundering in the contemporary
environment.

- Present the enabling legal, technological, economic, social and political frameworks to money
laundering.

- Estimate the volume of laundered money, classified according to sources, types, regions and
techniques.

- Understand the impact of deregulation on money laundering activity.

- Follow-up innovations in internet banking and finance.

- Pay special attention to money laundering activity in the developing countries.

- Follow-up the increasing sophistication of money laundering transactions through e-banking and
financial operations.

- Follow-up the general pace of the technology revolution and innovations in the banking and financial
industry, and impact on money laundering.

- Evaluate the main innovations in e-commerce, e-economy, and e-business operations, and impact on
money laundering.

- Acquaint participants with the impact of the virtual and cyber age on the financial services industry,
and impact on money laundering.

- Acquaint participants with the recent developments in EFTPOS, e-purse and home banking operations,
and impact on money laundering.

- Follow-up the new trends in private banking and offshore retail services, and impact on money
laundering.

- Up-dating experiences gained in combating money-laundering activities.

- Follow-up the evolution of the regulatory, security and confidentiality frameworks for the e-banking,
e-finance, and e-commerce.

- Comprehend the increasing role of electronic securities trading on money laundering.

- Evaluate the role of contemporary e-payments on money laundering.

- Investigate the enhanced involvement of retail and wholesale companies operating in the promotion
of money laundering.

- Understand the risks of money laundering in the direction of funds to finance global terrorism.

- Evaluate the use of money laundering in drug trafficking and illegal arms trade.

- Follow-up the uses of money laundering in pass-through operations in the field of white collar
corruption.

- Comprehend the loopholes and shortcomings in the conduct of accounting, legal and other professions
and their impact on money laundering.

- Understand the mechanism through which high-value trade and cash business facilitate money
laundering transactions.

- Follow-up the integrated U.S. action against money laundering.

- Follow-up the concerted action of the European Union agencies in anti-money laundering activity.

- Follow-up the coordinated activities of the United Nations and its organizations in anti-money
laundering endeavors.

- Evaluate the roles of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and their agencies in antimoney
laundering operations.
- Evaluate the work and initiatives of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in the field of antimoney
laundering.
- Evaluate the role of the financial Action Task Force, FATE, and its Forty Recommendations.

- Follow-up cooperation between FATE and regional financial action task forces.

- Evaluate the new legislations in the Arab countries against money laundering.

- Evaluate the roles of specialized international groups and agencies in the fight against money
laundering.