AUSTRAC launches AML starter kits to help small businesses in legal, accounting, real estate, conveyancing, and jewellery sectors prepare for AML/CTF rules effective 1 July 2026

The kits provide step-by-step guidance and practical tools to help businesses build scalable, risk-based AML programs, reduce compliance costs, and better identify and manage money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks, as part of broader AML reforms aimed at preventing organised crime from exploiting professional services…