Plain-English articles on AUSTRAC obligations, sanctions screening, and what compliance actually looks like inside an independent agency.
The most expensive misconception about Tranche 2 is that it forces independent agencies to hire a compliance professional. It doesn’t — and the gap between the fear and the reality is enormous.
Read the article →I spent three weeks calling independent real estate agency principals. Some barely had time. Here’s what they actually said — verbatim, anonymised, with permission.
Read the article →Everyone knows about AUSTRAC and the 1 July 2026 deadline. Almost no one knows about DFAT — the separate sanctions regime with criminal penalties that already applies right now.
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