🇦🇺 Australia · AML & KYC
Anti-money-laundering and customer-due-diligence obligations, regulated activities, and the official financial regulator.
In Australia, AML/CTF obligations under the AML/CTF Act are administered by AUSTRAC, the national financial intelligence unit and regulator. Reporting entities must enrol/register, carry out customer identification (KYC), maintain an AML/CTF program, and report suspicious matters, threshold transactions and international funds transfers.
- Reporting entities must enrol/register with AUSTRAC and identify customers (KYC).
- Maintain an AML/CTF program and ongoing monitoring.
- Report suspicious matters, threshold transactions and international funds transfers.
Official authorities
- AUSTRAC
Australia's FIU and AML/CTF regulator.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.
Government portals
- Australian Government — Australian Government's official entry point — quick access to all department services
- Dept of Home Affairs — Student/work visas, skilled migration (189/190/491 subclasses), and citizenship applications
- Australian Tax Office (ATO) — TFN application, tax refunds, GST, superannuation, and personal income tax lodgment