Determining Designated Services for AML Regulations (Decision Trees)

Are you regulated?

When AUSTRAC released their reform guidance in October 2025, law firms found it difficult to cut through the detail and make easy decisions about whether they provide designated services that will be regulated by AUSTRAC.

ALPMA Partner, First AML, have translated the information into practical decision trees so you know when and what is a designated service and requires AML/CTF compliance.

This bundle contains decision trees for the following professional services:

• Assisting to plan or execute a transaction to buy, sell or transfer real estate
• Selling, buying or transferring a legal arrangement or body corporate
• Receiving, holding, controlling or managing a person’s property (assets)
• Equity or debt financing for a body corporate or legal arrangement
• Selling or transferring a shelf company
• Creating or restructuring a body corporate or legal arrangement
• Acting on behalf of a person or as a nominee shareholder in a body corporate or legal arrangement
• Providing a registered office address or principal place of business