The U.S. - Latin America Private/Public Sector Dialogue (PSD) is an initiative of the U.S. Treasury Department, in cooperation with the Florida International Bankers Association - FIBA, the Association of Supervisors of Banks of the Americas - ASBA and the Latin-American Banking Federation - FELABAN.  The objective of the PSD is to optimize correspondent relations between U.S. and Latin-American financial sectors.

All financial institutions, regulators and supervisors from throughout the U.S. and Latin America are invited to participate and to discuss topics related to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) as a means of facilitating correspondent relations. 

Agenda

U.S. - Latin America Private/Public Sector Dialogue

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

1:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Intercontinental Hotel- Miami, FL

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.   Welcome and Opening Remarks - Comments from the U.S. Treasury Department about the  U.S. Treasury perspective on AML/CFT priorities for the U.S. and Latin America

•       Patricia Roth, Executive Director- FIBA

•       Giorgio Trettenero, Secretario General- Federación Latinoamericana de Bancos, FELABAN

•       Rudy Araujo, Secretario General- Asociación de Supervisores Bancarios de las Americas- ABSA

•       Chip Poncy, Director, Office of Strategic Policy Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC)- U.S. Department of the Treasury

1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.     Session –  Dialogue with Different Governmental Entities

This session will cover major topics in common with the Latin American and the U.S. banking industry and an overview of the FATF International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) process

Speakers:

•       Rudy Araujo, Secretario General- Asociación de Supervisores Bancarios de las Américas- ASBA
•       Ricardo Gil Iribarne, Director de Proyectos del Grupo de Acción Financiera de Sudamérica (GAFISUD)
•       Rachel Fedewa, Policy Advisor, Office of Strategic Policy Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC)- U.S. Department of the Treasury

2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.  Session – 2012 FATCA Update: What is the significance of the recently announced regulations for foreign banks outside the United States?

•       Scope of the proposed regulation

•       Why banks do not need to know about the proposed regulation?

•       FATCA and qualified intermediaries: how the rules work?

•       Pass thru: what, how, why?

•       Implementation issues and timeline for foreign banks outside the United States

•       Exclusions

Moderator:

Erika Litvak, Shareholder- Greenberg Traurig, P.A

Speakers:

•       Bettie N. Ricca, Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (International Field Service and Litigation) - Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. 

•       Marvin S. Michelman, Senior Advisor, Tax Controversy Services -  Deloitte

•       Luis Bernardo Quevedo, Presidente del Comité Latinoamericano COPLAFT de FELABAN – Director de la Unidad de Cumplimiento, Banco de Bogotá 

4:00 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.  Coffee Break

4:15 p.m.- 5:45 p.m. Session – Cash smuggling and the illicit use of other payment methods (prepaid cards, gift cards, remittances).

Moderator:

Guillermo Horta, Managing Director / Latin America - Global AML & Economic Sanctions - Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Speakers:

•       Timothy Leary, Senior Special Anti-Money Laundering Examiner- Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

•       Julio Aguirre, Segundo Vicepresidente del COPLAFT - Presidente/Comisión de Oficiales de Cumplimiento de la ABP-  Global Chief Compliance Officer (BLADEX)

•       Susan Paola Rojas, Intendente de Verificación Especial –Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala

•       Deborah Morrisey, Supervisory Special Agent- Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Homeland Security Investigations

5:45 p.m.- 6:15 p.m.  Closing Remarks
•       Giorgio Trettenero, Secretario General- Federación Latinoamericana de Bancos, FELABAN