Learn the steps you need to take to submit a cross-border movement of monetary instruments (CBM-MI).

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• Report a CBM-MI
• Steps to report a CBM-MI
• Secure messages

Report a CBM-MI

All Australian based and active reporting entities (REs) will be given access to the CBM-MI reporting menu in AUSTRAC Online. All newly enrolled REs will be given access upon enrolment.

Reporting of CBM-MI is only available for 2 AUSTRAC Online user roles: 

• Administrator role
• Approval and Submission role.

To open the CBM-MI dashboard: 

1. Select Reporting to expand it.
2. Select Cross Border Movement of Monetary Instruments. 

The CBM-MI Dashboard

On the CBM-MI dashboard you can:

• find information about CBM-MI reports
• create new CBM-MI reports
• use fields to filter and search recently submitted CBM-MI reports.

The first time CBM-MI users will get the message ‘No match found’. This message will appear until you submit at least one CBM-MI report. 

Search of previously submitted CBM-MI reports can be done using the following parameters:

• Receipt ID
• CBM-MI type
• Transaction date (±1): movement date

Steps to report a CBM-MI

Select the Report sending/received CBM-MI or Report carrying CBM-MI button to open a new CBM-MI report. A new browser window will open with a CBM-MI report. The only reporting method available for CBM-MI is single data entry. 

There is no ‘save and return’ function, and an incomplete report won’t time out if you don’t clear browser cookies. 

To navigate through the CBM-MI report, select Next at the bottom of each page or select the icons across the top for each step. You can also select the step in the ‘Summary & declaration’ page.

Some fields in the form are mandatory. When the page has an incomplete response, you will receive an error message on that page and on the ‘Summary & declaration’ page directing you to complete the required fields. 

Some of the fields in the report have suggestion boxes, such as:

• address lookup
• currency code
• telephone prefix.

You can add multiple monetary instruments, and multiple persons, in both the ‘on behalf of’ and ‘delivering to’ sections of the report.

Once each page is complete: 

1. Select Submit on the Summary & declaration page. This will open a receipt page with your report details.
2. Select Download PDF to save this receipt for your records.

Secure messages

The secure messages function is a secure way of sending and receiving messages containing confidential reporting information between yourself and us.

We recommend using the secure messages function when you need to communicate on sensitive and confidential matters relating to customers and their transactions or activities. This option is more secure than other methods like email.

For example, if you’ve already submitted a transaction report with incorrect information, you would advise us by sending a secure message. 

However, if you had a general query about transaction reporting obligations or are having technical difficulties you wouldn’t use this service. 

For help, you should contact us on 1300 021 037 or contact@austrac.gov.au  

To use the secure message function, go to Transaction Reports in the left-hand navigation menu. 

1. Select Transaction Reports, this will take you to the AUSTRAC Online Transaction Reporting page.
2. Select the Plus icon to expand the Transaction Reporting menu.
3. Select the sub-menu item Administration.
4. Select Send Secure Message to start a new secure message. 

5. Enter the subject and message details.
6. Select Send. 

Search previous secure messages

You can also search and display previous messages you’ve sent to or received from us: 

1. To find a message or filter the secure message list, select the applicable option from the Show Messages Where I am and Message Status drop-down menus.
2. Select Find.
3. To view a message, select the hyperlinked subject text. From the View Secure Message screen you can reply to, delete, retract the selected message or create a new message.