Time’s up: AUSTRAC to get tough on AML/CTF laggards
AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas has cautioned that conveyancers not yet part of Australia’s new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime face looming regulatory action, after the enrolment deadline closed on July 29. Under the new Tranche 2 AML/CTF regime – the biggest conveyancing industry overhaul in decades – practitioners were given a 28-day window to enrol with the financial crime regulator after the landmark reforms commenced last month. Mr Thomas said AUSTRAC was preparing to come down hard on those still unenrolled, even as conveyancers had “enrolled str