Australia's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

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Paris, 27 March 2024 - This is Australia’s 4th Enhanced Follow-up Report (FUR) with technical compliance re-ratings.

The report analyses Australia’s progress in addressing some of the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.

Overall, Australia has made progress in addressing some deficiencies and the following Recommendations have been re-rated:

  • Recommendation 10 is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendation 13 is re-rated from Non Compliant to Compliant
  • Recommendation 15 has been re-rated Compliant to Partially Compliant
  • Recommendation 17 is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Compliant
  • Recommendation 18  is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendation 26  is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant

Australia has 18 Recommendations rated Compliant, 12 Largely Compliant, 6 Partially Compliant and 4 Recommendations rated Non Compliant.

The country will report back to the FATF on progress achieved in improving the implementation of its AML/CFT measures in its 5th round mutual evaluation

 

Australia - Follow-Up Report 2024

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Technical Compliance

Ratings which reflect the extent to which a country has implemented the technical requirements of the FATF Recommendations.

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R.1 - Assessing risk & applying risk-based approach
LC
R.2 - National cooperation and coordination
LC
R.3 - Money laundering offence
C
R.4 - Confiscation and provisional measures
LC
R.5 - Terrorist financing offence
LC
R.6 - Targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism & terrorist financing
C
R.7 - Targeted financial sanctions related to proliferation
LC
R.8 - Non-profit organisations
PC
R.9 - Financial institution secrecy laws
LC
R.10 - Customer due diligence
LC
R.11 - Record keeping
LC
R.12 - Politically exposed persons
LC
R.13 - Correspondent banking
LC
R.14 - Money or value transfer services
C
R.15 - New technologies
LC
R.16 - Wire transfers
LC
R.17 - Reliance on third parties
LC
R.18 - Internal controls and foreign branches and subsidiaries
C
R.19 - Higher-risk countries
LC
R.20 - Reporting of suspicious transactions
C
R.21 - Tipping-off and confidentiality
LC
R.22 - DNFBPs: Customer due diligence
LC
R.23 - DNFBPs: Other measures
LC
R.24 - Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons
LC
R.25 - Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal arrangements
PC
R.26 - Regulation and supervision of financial institutions
LC
R.27 - Powers of supervisors
LC
R.28 - Regulation and supervision of DNFBPs
PC
R.29 - Financial intelligence units
C
R.30 - Responsibilities of law enforcement and investigative authorities
C
R.31 - Powers of law enforcement and investigative authorities
LC
R.32 - Cash couriers
LC
R.33 - Statistics
LC
R.34 - Guidance and feedback
LC
R.35- Sanctions
LC
R.36 - International instruments
LC
R.37 - Mutual legal assistance
LC
R.38 - Mutual legal assistance: freezing and confiscation
LC
R.39 - Extradition
LC
R.40 - Other forms of international cooperation
LC

C = compliant   |   LC = largely compliant     |   PC = partially compliant   |   NC = non-compliant   |   NA = not applicable

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