Indicators

We have created suspicious activity indicators to help you identify potential money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious criminal activities. These indicators can inform your transaction monitoring alerts that trigger further review. 

To complement these indicators, you must also ensure your transaction monitoring systems alert you to unusual, large or complex transactions or patterns of transactions. 

Indicators

We have created suspicious activity indicators to help you identify potential money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious criminal activities. These indicators can inform your transaction monitoring alerts that trigger further review. 

To complement these indicators, you must also ensure your transaction monitoring systems alert you to unusual, large or complex transactions or patterns of transactions. 

Indicators

We have created suspicious activity indicators to help you identify potential money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious criminal activities. These indicators can inform your transaction monitoring alerts that trigger further review. 

To complement these indicators, you must also ensure your transaction monitoring systems alert you to unusual, large or complex transactions or patterns of transactions. 

Indicators

We have created suspicious activity indicators to help you identify potential money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious criminal activities. These indicators can inform your transaction monitoring alerts that trigger further review. 

To complement these indicators, you must also ensure your transaction monitoring systems alert you to unusual, large or complex transactions or patterns of transactions. 

Risk assessment

The current and emerging challenges, threats and risks that Australia faces in combating money laundering. 

Risk assessment

A detailed assessment of Australia’s exposure to terrorism-financing threats and vulnerabilities.

Financial crime guide

Criminal networks seek to exploit vulnerable members of the community. They target and recruit them as money mules to launder their proceeds of crime and reintegrate the funds back into the economy. This creates distance between the networks and the crime, and helps to avoid detection by law enforcement. 

Detailed guidance, Regulatory guide

AUSTRAC’s 2024 regulatory priorities focus on hardening the sectors we regulate against criminal misuse. We aim to build resilience in these sectors against money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious crime.

These regulatory priorities will help us focus on what will deliver the most significant impact to achieve the strategic objectives set out in AUSTRAC’s 2023-27 Corporate Plan.

Detailed guidance

This list of indicators will help you identify potential money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious and organised criminal activity involving electronic gaming machine venues.

This list may be used as part of you AML/CTF risk awareness training for venue staff to help them identify signs of suspicious activity.

Video

A video to help you recognise some of the signs that could indicate money laundering is occurring at your venue.