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Three in-person workshops on financial investigations for law enforcement authorities in the Pacific region were conducted between March and May 2023.

The 1st webinar of the APG Regional Webinar Series on DNFBP Supervision, 'DNFBP Regulation: FATF International Standards and Implementation', was hosted by the APG and Bank Negara Malaysia on 28 April 2021 in virtual format.

APG secretariat delivered a strategic planning workshop with the Solomon Islands on 4-6 February 2020, to assist authorities to respond to the findings of the 2019 Mutual Evaluation Report.

The APG secretariat delivered a national AML/CFT awareness raising workshop with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) on 29-31 January 2020.

The APG together with the Alliance for Financial Stability with Information Technology (AFS-IT) will hold a Digital KYC Workshop, in Seoul, Republic of Korea from 24-26 March 2020.

A Pacific sub-regional cash courier workshop was held on 8-12 July 2019 for law enforcement officers from the Cook Islands, Fiji, and Samoa.

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and APG co-hosted the Pacific Workshop on Targeted Financial Sanctions Relating to Terrorism Financing and Proliferation Financing on 17-19 June 2019 in Suva, Fiji.

A regional Pacific FATF Standards Training course was held in Auckland, New Zealand from 4 - 8 March 2019. This was a joint venture between FATF TREIN, Ministry of Justice - New Zealand and the APG.

On 20-21 August 2018, the IOSCO Asia Pacific Hub together with the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) organised a two-day workshop on Countering Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing in Securities Markets in Kuala Lumpur.