AUSTRAC News
Alchemy Pay Comes to Australia with PayID Integration and AUSTRAC Approval
Singapore-based cryptocurrency payments solution provider, Alchemy Pay, has integrated PayID — Australia’s interbank real-time payments ...
Australia Warns Idle Crypto Firms: “Use It or Lose It”
Australia’s financial intelligence unit is warning inactive digital currency exchanges (DCEs) to voluntarily withdraw their registrations ...
“Worrying Trends” For Crypto ATM Operators Ahead Of New Anti-Money Laundering Laws, AUSTRAC Warns
Australia’s large number of crypto ATM providers have more work to do to get the right checks and balances in place to detect money launde...
Money Laundering Crackdown: AUSTRAC Puts 50 Firms, Including Crypto Exchanges, On Notice
An Australian Financial Review (AFR) report has revealed that Australia’s financial crimes watchdog, the Australian Transaction Reports an...
New AUSTRAC Task Force to Combat Crypto ATM Use in Money Laundering
Australia’s financial crimes watchdog, AUSTRAC, has established an internal cryptocurrency taskforce in order to combat the growing use of...
AUSTRAC Reveals Regulatory Priorities, Targets Crypto
Regulatory Focus on Exchanges in 2024 AUSTRAC, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, just released its 2024 regulatory pri...
AUSTRAC Releases Guide to Detect and Prevent Illicit Crypto Activity
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) published two guides this week with hopes of helping Aussies detect and pre...
AUSTRAC Issues Debanking Statement: ‘Australian Banks At Risk’
Australia’s anti-money laundering regulator AUSTRAC has issued a statement warning banks against closing accounts. The context is, jus...
AUSTRAC and ASIC Investigating Scammers Deceiving Aussie Crypto Investors
A new investigation by the Australian Financial Review has shown that millions of dollars in cryptos are being stolen by British scammers po...