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Source of funds (SOF)

AML/CTF

Documentation of where the money used in a specific transaction came from — salary, sale of an asset, business income, gift, etc. Captured during enhanced CDD where the venue forms a heightened ML/TF risk view. SOF answers "where did this $50k come from?"; distinct from source of wealth, which answers the broader background question.

This term sits in the AML/CTF section of the working glossary — vocabulary that recurs across the AUSTRAC reporting-entity regime, the AML/CTF Act 2006, and the AML/CTF Rules 2025.

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