The NAB breached the Corporations Act on 2,285 occasions between 2013 and 2019 when charging 1,382 clients more than A$2 million
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Tax Evasion is Illegal, but not an Offence. Does AUSTRAC Understand its Own Risks?
Unlike some countries (such as the US), Australia’s legislative references to tax “evasion” do not refer to a criminal offence or even a category of criminal offences.
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AUSTRAC urges businesses to update risk assessments, following FATF reports
The Australian anti-money laundering regulator has urged reporting entities to review their risk assessments and compliance controls in the context of two new reports from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
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How to avoid AUSTRAC’s feared litigation team
The recent ACAMS Australia conference gave financial crime practitioners an unprecedented level of detail about the strategic decision-making and policy issues behind the record A$1.3 billion
Westpac anti-money laundering litigation.
ANALYSIS: New Zealand’s first banking AML penalty provides key lessons for financial sector
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has wrapped up its first civil litigation under the anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism regime.
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How launderers exploit Australia’s lax real estate laws to infiltrate banks
International money launderers are exploiting Australia’s continuing failure to pass “Tranche 2” laws, which has allowed them to defeat banks’ anti-crime controls
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Crown Royal Commission submissions raised questions about directors’ duties
The Royal Commission’s most senior lawyer went on to outline how Crown management and its culture had put profit ahead of integrity, regulation and the law.
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Crown should lose gaming licence due to systemic compliance failures: laundering probe
Money laundering concerns have dominated the inquiry, which looked at the extent to which Crown failed to address its financial crime risks.
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PODCAST: Compliance considerations for antitrust enforcement
The Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence podcast series “Compliance Clarified” covers a wide range of topics that are relevant to compliance officers in financial services firms. Antitrust enforcement actions against technology…
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Fintech, Regtech and the Role of Compliance 2021
Have corporate governance and the culture of financial services firms kept up to pace with the new fintech that’s been rolled out during the pandemic? Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence’s (TRRI) fifth annual survey on fintech, regtech and the role of compliance explores these issues.
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