Knowledge category
AML/CTF knowledge for trust and company services
Control formation, registered-office, nominee, trustee, ownership and offshore-structure risks throughout an entity relationship.
Explore the trust and company services compliance workspaceGuides in this category
Start with the foundation guide, then use the focused articles for the service, customer or control in front of you.
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.
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.
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.
Formation CDD checklist
A file-ready customer due diligence checklist for Australian trust and company service providers creating companies, express trusts and related structures.
Complex ownership structures
A practical Australian guide to tracing indirect ownership and control through companies, trusts, nominees and foreign entities for defensible TCSP CDD.
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.
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.
Turn guidance into evidence
Use Cassandra AML to record service scope, CDD, ownership, risk, monitoring, reporting and program evidence for your practice.