I would like to request the release of a non-personal, non-secure dataset on international money transfers and suspicious financial activity in New Zealand for academic research purposes. To support my postgraduate Data Analytics assignment, I am seeking an aggregated dataset with at least 1,200 rows and 20 variables, containing anonymised and publicly shareable information such as: Transaction volumes and values (in NZD) Sending and receiving countries (aggregated) Transfer channels (bank, remittance operator, mobile app, etc.) Transaction purpose categories (remittance, business, donation, etc.) Aggregated demographic breakdowns (age bands, gender – anonymised) Risk indicators (e.g., high-risk country flag, large transaction flag, unusual activity flag) Summary of suspicious transaction reports (STRs) received by FIU, in aggregated form Temporal patterns (monthly or quarterly)

Opening this data will help solve the problem of limited transparency in financial transaction patterns, support academic research, and provide realistic datasets for training future compliance professionals — without disclosing any personal or sensitive information.
This request is for academic purposes only as part of my postgraduate Data Analytics assignment.

Opening this data will solve a problem by improving transparency, supporting academic research, and providing realistic datasets for training future compliance professionals — all without disclosing personal or sensitive information.