The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s anti-money-laundering (AML) standard setter, has espied plenty of room for improvement in New Zealand’s regime as the result of a visit by its inspectors. According to FATF, the jurisdiction’s government is ignoring the flourishing black-market trade in money or value-transfer services, the wire transfer rules do not apply to credit and debit card transactions and failures to identify beneficial owners abound.