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Getting Under The Bonnet Of The AML Act Do you want to know more about how the AML Act and AML Rules work in your business? Paddy Oliver will be hosting a series of seminars focusing on the more challenging and problematic areas of the AML Act. Paddy has been working with clients around the

Know Your Customer and Trading Trusts In AML land, specifically around the Customer Identification / Know Your Customer we spend a lot of time talking about trusts and their inner workings. The more I deal with clients’ trust KYC identification issues the more I realised that we in AML land know, and understand, next to

AUSTRAC recently produced a factsheet entitled “Meeting your Beneficial Ownership Obligations”. It is informative. Well worth reading for all Australian reporting entities, especially the vast majority of reporting entities who struggle with the whole concept of beneficial ownership. It is daunting.

This article discusses some of the lessons from the authors’ years of experience conducting independent review of AML/CTF programs, and AUSTRAC’s publication ‘Insights from Compliance Assessments: Good Business Practices and Areas for Improvement’ of December 2016.

The AML/CTF laws require designated service providers to maintain an AML/CTF Program and undertake for regular independent review of Part A of that program (which necessarily also entails some examination of the operation of Part B (Customer due diligence).