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.
Five situations, in plain words
Illustrations of questions trust and company service providers meet. Not customers, and not a decision for your file.
Forming a company is covered. Record who asked for it and who will control it.
Forming a trust is covered. Name the trustee and the people who benefit.
A registered-office address provided as a business service can be covered.
A nominee shareholder is covered when you act for someone else. Record the instruction.
Running the books of a company you formed is a later check, not the same as formation.
Work that can be covered
- 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
What to keep on the file
- Formation and constitutional documents
- Layered ownership and control records
- Nominee and authority evidence
- Jurisdiction and source-of-wealth reviews
- Ongoing monitoring and exit records
Guides for trust and company service providers
- For trust & company service providers4 min
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 arrangements4 min
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 services3 min
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 checklist9 min
A file-ready customer due diligence checklist for Australian trust and company service providers creating companies, express trusts and related structures.
- Complex ownership structures7 min
A practical Australian guide to tracing indirect ownership and control through companies, trusts, nominees and foreign entities for defensible TCSP CDD.
- TCSP monitoring triggers7 min
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 exit6 min
How Australian trust and company service providers can pause, refuse, continue or exit work after unusual activity while protecting SMR information.
- TCSP checklist3 min
A file-ready AML/CTF checklist for Australian TCSPs: formation, registered office, nominee roles, CDD, ongoing monitoring and reporting evidence.
- Offshore structure risk3 min
How Australian TCSPs assess and control the risk of foreign entities, offshore structures, nominee layers and cross-border ownership in their files.
- Trustee company duties3 min
What Australian trustee companies and corporate trustees must test under AML/CTF: trustee services, control analysis, CDD and ongoing duties.
Questions trust and company service providers ask
Are all trust and company service providers regulated by AUSTRAC?
No. It depends on whether the business provides a designated service with the required Australian link, not on the professional title. Assess each service and take advice where the boundary is uncertain.
What should trust and company service providers keep for an AML/CTF review?
The scope decision, customer and beneficial-owner evidence, the risk assessment, screening and escalation decisions, approvals, reporting records, training and the current AML/CTF program.
Does Cassandra AML replace legal advice?
No. It organises compliance work and evidence. It does not give legal advice, guarantee compliance or imply AUSTRAC endorsement.