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AUSTRAC launches tool to help advisers fight terrorism

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... follows on from the report AUSTRAC released in December last year which determined there is a medium risk for money laundering and terrorism financing in the Australian financial planning industry. In order to combat this, AUSTRAC's new guide highlights ...

Medium risk for terrorism funding in financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
A Federal Government agency says there is a medium level of risk for money laundering and terrorism financing in the Australian financial planning industry. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), the government's financial ...

ASIC employee faces court

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... subsection 478.1(1) of the Criminal Code Act 1995 and making a false document contrary to section 138(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006. Daher's offences are punishable by up to two years and 10 years imprisonment ...

Thomson Reuters partners with platform provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... institutions with the ability to manage transactional and reputational risk and now enables users to undertake anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CTF) and politically-exposed people (PEP) due diligence via integration with Thomson ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... of consumer protection on data privacy, information security, dispute resolution as well as fighting fraud and money laundering and regulation is needed to minimise these risks." Director of payments at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Marion King, said ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... wrongdoing and non-compliance by SMSF trustees; capturing rollovers to SMSFs as a designated service under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 ; and establishing a register of SMSF auditors has all helped to reduce organised ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... digital currencies have the potential to raise more immediate concerns over issues relating to taxation, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules and consumer protection.

NAB, ABS insider traders jailed

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
After being charged in 2014 for insider trading, money laundering and abuse of public office, two men have been sentenced to jail. Reportedly Australia's largest insider trading scheme, the two men's activities resulted in profits of roughly $7 million ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... transactions, SMSF bank verification, SMSF roll-overs being included as a 'designated service' under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006, and taxing super benefits received illegally at the top tax rate, are no longer part ...

Advisers should train to fight tax evasion: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) should train financial advisers on identifying and avoiding cases of tax evasion and money laundering, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said. The FPA general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori told ...