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AML/CTF software for trust and company service providers

Entity-first AML/CTF operations for Australian trust and company service providers: formation, nominee, registered-office, ownership and ongoing-monitoring workflows.

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Designated services this workflow recognises

The legal trigger is the service being provided, not the professional title. The workspace records a decision for each engagement or matter.

  • Company and express-trust creation
  • Shelf-company transfers and qualifying changes of legal form
  • Item 7 acting arrangements and item 8 nominee-shareholder services where the nominator-control and instruction tests are met
  • Registered-office or principal-place-of-business addresses provided in the course of carrying on a business
  • Express-trust trustee roles performed on behalf of a nominator; general trust administration alone is not automatically designated

See a entity or trust arrangement move through the workspace

This representative, fictional record uses the same terminology and sequence shown to trust and company service providers in Cassandra AML. No personal information is shown.

Entity service example

Northshore Ventures company formation

Control mapping

Client and arrangement record

Northshore Ventures company formation

TCSP-2026-032

Entity service
Proposed Australian proprietary company
Authority
Founder instructing as proposed director
Known parties
Founder, beneficial owner and proposed director

Next actionVerify authority, ownership and control before formation work proceeds.

Entity-service work

  1. Enrol with AUSTRACComplete

    Record your AUSTRAC enrolment number and confirmed status so the business's transition timing is documented beside the workbench.

  2. Complete the risk assessmentComplete

    Document the TCSP's designated services, client types, delivery channels and AUSTRAC risk factors, and update it when services change.

  3. Create policies and processesCurrent

    Build or upload the AML/CTF policy and process that governs escalation triggers, internal controls and risk-based entity-service handling.

  4. 4
    Onboard your staffNext

    Nominate the governing body, compliance officer, senior manager and client-facing staff, then assign each person's access and roles.

  5. 5
    Complete staff trainingNext

    Deliver AUSTRAC risk-based AML/CTF awareness training to every staff member and keep completion evidence current.

  6. 6
    Onboard and monitor clientsNext

    Verify the instructing client, reach the natural persons behind layered structures and screen founders, controllers, trustees and nominees, then keep monitoring current.

Evidence ready for organisation review

  • Formation and constitutional documents
  • Layered ownership and control records
  • Nominee and authority evidence
  • Jurisdiction and source-of-wealth reviews
  • Ongoing monitoring and exit records

Cassandra AML assists your compliance work; it does not provide legal advice, guarantee compliance or imply AUSTRAC endorsement.

Practical AML/CTF guidance for Trust and company service providers

Start with the profession pillar, then use the focused guides for the exact service, customer or control you are handling. Each article links to primary AUSTRAC or legislative material.

4 min guide

For trust & company service providers

Trust and company service providers (TCSPs) are at the centre of Tranche 2: forming companies and trusts, acting as nominee directors or shareholders, providing registered offices. Obligations, CDD on structures, beneficial ownership and reporting.

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4 min guide

Nominee arrangements

How item 7 acting arrangements and item 8 nominee-shareholder services apply to TCSPs and professional practices: customers, ownership, risk, CDD and red flags.

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3 min guide

Registered office services

When providing a registered office or principal place of business in the course of business becomes item 9: CDD, monitoring, mail handling and red flags.

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9 min guide

Formation CDD checklist

A file-ready customer due diligence checklist for Australian trust and company service providers creating companies, express trusts and related structures.

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7 min guide

Complex ownership structures

A practical Australian guide to tracing indirect ownership and control through companies, trusts, nominees and foreign entities for defensible TCSP CDD.

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7 min guide

TCSP monitoring triggers

A practical framework for TCSP transaction and behaviour monitoring, event-driven KYC updates, risk reviews, escalation and evidence under Australian AML/CTF law.

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6 min guide

TCSP refusal and exit

How Australian trust and company service providers can pause, refuse, continue or exit work after unusual activity while protecting SMR information.

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3 min guide

TCSP checklist

A file-ready AML/CTF checklist for Australian TCSPs: formation, registered office, nominee roles, CDD, ongoing monitoring and reporting evidence.

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3 min guide

Offshore structure risk

How Australian TCSPs assess and control the risk of foreign entities, offshore structures, nominee layers and cross-border ownership in their files.

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3 min guide

Trustee company duties

What Australian trustee companies and corporate trustees must test under AML/CTF: trustee services, control analysis, CDD and ongoing duties.

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Questions trust and company service providers ask

Are all trust and company service providers automatically regulated by AUSTRAC?

No. AML/CTF status depends on whether the business provides a designated service with the required Australian geographical link, not the professional title alone. Assess each service and obtain advice where the boundary is uncertain.

What should trust and company service providers record for an AML/CTF review?

Keep the service-scope decision, customer and beneficial-owner evidence, risk assessment, screening and escalation decisions, approvals, reporting records, training and current program governance evidence.

Does Cassandra AML replace legal or regulatory advice?

No. Cassandra AML organises compliance work and evidence. It does not give legal advice, guarantee compliance or imply AUSTRAC endorsement.

Make the entity and its control chain the centre of the record.

Use formation, nominee, registered-office and arrangement terminology with authority and natural-person control evidence built in.

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