The Victorian County Court recently sentenced two men to jail for laundering more than $63 million using ATMs in Melbourne.
On Saturday 9 November 2024, we launched updated enrolment and registration forms on AUSTRAC Online.
We have made it easier and faster for you to enrol or register a new business, and update your details. The new enrolment and registration forms are available now to all reporting entities via AUSTRAC Online.
AUSTRAC hosted the 2024 AML/CTF Advisers Forum in Melbourne on Tuesday 12 November, and Sydney on Wednesday 20 November.
This Forum was an AUSTRAC initiative to provide high level engagement and guidance to Australia’s AML/CTF adviser’s cohort, to assist them with providing quality, effective and up to date advice, products and services to reporting entities.
At AUSTRAC, our mission is to safeguard Australia’s financial system from criminal exploitation and misuse. As Australia’s financial intelligence unit and regulator, we work closely with businesses across various sectors to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) obligations.
Data quality is the backbone of AUSTRAC’s analytics capabilities.
Serious financial crime knows no borders, demanding a united global approach to defeat it.
“AUSTRAC’s global financial intelligence collaboration is critical to combat money laundering, terrorism financing (ML/TF) and other serious crimes,” says AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas.
We have developed a new video to explain overseas travellers’ obligations to submit Cross-Border Movement of Monetary Instruments (CBM-MI) forms.
AUSTRAC has released a new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) e-learning module on quality reporting for suspicious matter reports (SMRs).
This module will help you:
AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas encourages businesses and industry associations to have their say on the new draft Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) Rules.
On 10 December 2024 the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) Amendment Act 2024 receive