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.

Australia - Follow-up Report Ratings 2024

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

C = compliant   |   LC = largely compliant     |   PC = partially compliant   |   NC = non-compliant

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