In-person AML/CTF training, built around your own services
A facilitated session at your office, for your team, worked through against the designated services your practice actually provides. Available anywhere in Australia, with travel by arrangement.
Why a session, and not only a course
The Rules ask that training fit the person
A reporting entity’s AML/CTF policies must deal with training, and the Rules then set the test that training has to meet. Read it closely: the measure is not how many lessons someone watched. It is whether the training suited the function that person performs, the risks attached to that function, and whether they could actually understand it.
“The AML/CTF policies of the reporting entity must deal with both initial training upon a person’s employment or engagement and ongoing training during a person’s employment or engagement. … the training provided to a person: (a) is appropriate having regard to: (i) the particular function performed by the person; and (ii) the particular risks of money laundering, financing of terrorism and proliferation financing that are relevant to the person’s function; and (iii) the particular responsibilities of the person under the AML/CTF policies; and (b) is readily understandable by the person.”
AML/CTF Rules 2025, s 5‑9(2)–(3) — Compilation No. 1 (F2026C00274)
Self-paced training carries that well for the shared foundations, which is what the online Academy is for. What it cannot do is sit in a room with your team and work through the matters your firm takes on. A session does that, and the two work together rather than instead of each other.
What a session covers
Your services, your roles, your program
Which of your services are designated services
We work through section 6 against what your practice actually does — the tables that apply to you, item by item, in the Act’s own words. Not a generic list of five sectors.
What each person in the room has to do
Who onboards a client, who verifies, who escalates, who reports, who signs off. The Rules ask that training fit the particular function performed by the person, so the session is built around your roles.
Your program, and Lex-AML alongside it
Where your AML/CTF program, risk assessment, CDD and record-keeping sit day to day — and a walkthrough of the Lex-AML Organisation Workspace and Customer Portal if you want to see how the work is carried in software.
The agenda is set with you beforehand, because a conveyancing practice, an accounting firm and a real estate agency do not carry the same designated services. Whether your business is a reporting entity depends on the designated services you provide — not on having an ABN or being based in Australia. Check AUSTRAC’s sector guidance, and seek professional advice for your situation.
How it works
Booked, prepared, delivered on site
- Where
- At your office. Available anywhere in Australia — travel is quoted separately and agreed before anything is booked.
- Who it is for
- The people who perform functions relevant to your AML/CTF obligations: whoever onboards clients, verifies them, escalates, reports, or signs off. Partners and compliance officers included.
- Before the session
- A short conversation about the services your practice provides, so the agenda is built on your designated services rather than a generic outline.
- What you keep
- An attendance record of who was trained, on what, and when — the kind of evidence an AML/CTF program holds. It evidences attendance and completion; it is not proof of compliance, and it is not an AUSTRAC approval.
- Price
- From AUD $600 + GST, quoted per engagement. The figure depends on the size of the group, the sectors in the room and the travel involved, so it is agreed in writing before the session is booked.
What this is, and what it is not
Four things worth saying plainly
- It is training, not legal advice. A session explains what the Act and the Rules require and how they read against your services. It does not advise you on whether a particular matter is a designated service, and it does not replace advice from your own lawyer.
- The obligation stays yours. A reporting entity may source its staff training from a third party, but liability for complying with the AML/CTF Act remains with the reporting entity. Buying a session does not transfer it.
- No AUSTRAC endorsement is claimed. AUSTRAC does not accredit, approve or endorse AML/CTF trainers, and nothing here should be read as saying otherwise.
- CPD is yours to self-assess. Legal CPD in Australia works on self-assessment by the practitioner, and the professional bodies do not accredit providers. Attendees may be able to assess a session against their own CPD requirements; that assessment is theirs to make, and we claim no accreditation.
Tell us the sector, roughly how many people, and where you are. We will come back with an agenda built on your designated services and a written quote before anything is booked.
Self-paced online training is AUD $199 + GST per learner, and Foundations is free.