This regulatory quick guide provides an overview of your obligations for customers or beneficial owners who are politically exposed persons (PEPs).
This financial crime guide will help businesses identify and report suspicious activity related to forced sexual servitude. Forced sexual servitude is a form of slavery and represents around 30% of slavery cases in Australia.
Victims are forced to provide sexual services against their will, are unable to refuse violent or unsafe practices, and must hand over most – if not all – of their money to the perpetrators. It is a lucrative business for criminals, who make significant profits through this criminal activity.
Financial institutions can carry out applicable customer identification procedures (ACIP) in respect of a customer after commencing to open an account in certain circumstances. This is on the condition that appropriate risk-based systems and controls are in place, including to ensure no further designated services can be provided other than deposits to the account or designated services incidental to the opening of the account or a deposit.
This guide has been developed for pubs and clubs who are licensed to operate electronic gaming machines (EGMs), to gain a thorough understanding of your AML/CTF obligations.
This guide provides financial indicators to help financial services businesses to detect and report potential fraud and misuse of taxpayer funds through Services Australia administered emergency and disaster payments.
This guide provides financial indicators to help financial service providers to target, detect and disrupt criminal communication or abuse through payment text fields.
These resources provide an overview of how ML/TF risk is distributed across Australia’s banking sector.
An assessment of the money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks associated with the foreign bank branches subsector to help identify, mitigate and manage risks.
- Download: Foreign bank branches in Australia risk assessment (PDF, 1.19MB)
An assessment of the money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks associated with the foreign subsidiary bank subsector to help identify, mitigate and manage risks.
- Download: Foreign subsidiary banks in Australia risk assessment (PDF, 2.37MB)
An assessment of the money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks associated with the other domestic banks subsector to help identify, mitigate and manage risks.
- Download: Australia's other domestic banks risk assessment (PDF, 1.55MB)