New Zealanders are being bombarded by scam activity with nine out of ten people reporting having ...
18 Mar 2024
Ashley Kai Fong
Head of Financial Crime
Ashley Kai-Fong, BNZ’s Head of Financial Crime, is responsible for managing the bank’s fraud protection team which supports BNZ customers through the prevention, detection, and investigation of fraud. A key part of this role involves monitoring global trends and technological advancements to predict and prevent future scams in New Zealand.
Ashley is an active member of the NZ Bankers’ Fraud Strategy Group and the Interagency Fraud Working Group (IFWG). The IFWG is a public private partnership tasked with tactical responses to educate consumers on scams, with a view to reducing the social and financial harm of these scams on New Zealanders.
Prior to joining BNZ, Ashley was a Police Officer for 21 years, where he held a number of investigative roles including Officer in Charge of the New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence Unit. In this role he was engaged in several international forums relating to financial crime, money laundering, and terrorist financing. These included chairing the Asia-Pacific Working Group on Money Laundering Typologies and representing Oceania on the global group of Financial Intelligence Units Management Committee known as the Egmont Group.