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FATF (Financial Action Task Force)

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The intergovernmental body that sets international anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorism-financing, and counter-proliferation-financing standards — known as the FATF Recommendations. Australia is a FATF member; AUSTRAC's guidance, the AML/CTF Act 2006, and the AML/CTF Rules 2025 all align with the Recommendations. FATF mutual-evaluation reports of Australia identify weaknesses that subsequently appear as Australian reform priorities (the 2024 Amendment Act drew on the 2015 mutual evaluation).

This term sits in the cross-cutting section of the working glossary — concepts that recur across multiple regulatory domains rather than belonging to one statute.

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