Detailed guidance

These examples of dealing with suspicious customer behaviour are designed to help the online wagering industry better understand and meet anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) compliance obligations.

Quick guide

A guide for ML/TF risk assessment framework quick guide for virtual asset service providers.

Financial crime guide

This guide explains how illegal wildlife trafficking takes place, and specific indicators that can help you identify and report this type of activity.

Financial crime guide

This report identifies and explains the key indicators of illegal phoenix activity in the labour hire and payroll industry.

Financial crime guide

This report has been developed to assist financial service providers and law enforcement agencies to detect suspect transactions by providing updated financial and environmental indicators to more effectively combat child sexual exploitation.

Detailed guidance

AUSTRAC has introduced a new AML/CTF Rule that will help to streamline the customer verification process for superannuation funds to make payments to their members made under the COVID-19 early release of superannuation initiative.

Detailed guidance

This guide clarifies how to treat a strata corporation (also known as body corporate or owners corporation) for the purpose of customer and beneficial ownership identification. It also provides the relevant provisions of the Rules to refer to if beneficial owners cannot be determined using the standard criteria.

Detailed guidance

The AUSTRAC Insights: Governance series provides reporting entities with key learnings from our regulatory activities that will help strengthen leadership and oversight of the AML/CTF compliance and risk management process.

Risk assessment

With information specific to mutual banks, this report outlines the sector’s exposure to financial crime and includes pathways to strengthen risk mitigation.

Detailed guidance

What is an agent banking arrangement?

An agent banking arrangement consists of:

  • an account provider offering deposit accounts to customers
  • an agent bank accepting deposits, including cash deposits, on behalf of the account provider, but not maintaining the customers’ accounts.

Who is providing a designated service under these arrangements?

The account provider is providing the designated service by allowing a transaction to be conducted on the customer’s account.