AUSTRAC news articles
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...