LiteAML at the Australian Financial Crime Summit 2026

For over a decade, the Australian Financial Crime Summit has been the centrepiece event for compliance and financial crime professionals across Australia. The 2026 edition is the most timely yet, arriving as Tranche 2 of the AML/CTF reforms takes effect and brings tens of thousands of new reporting entities, including accountants, lawyers, and real estate professionals, under AUSTRAC's oversight for the first time.

The summit unites regulatory authorities, financial institutions, professional service firms, and technology providers to share what is working in practice, not just in theory. Sessions cover financial crime typologies, RegTech adoption, customer due diligence, and the operational realities of building a compliance culture under intensifying regulatory expectations.

The Session centres on a single, urgent theme: collaboration. Australia faces billions of dollars in financial crime exposure annually, and no single institution or regulator can address the scale of the problem alone. The conversation at AFC 2026 is about what genuine cross-sector collaboration looks like in practice, how information sharing, technology, and coordinated regulatory action combine to close the gaps that financial criminals exploit.

For LiteAML, this theme resonates directly with our mission: making AML compliance accessible and practical for the full range of reporting entities, not just the largest institutions. The Tranche 2 expansion means collaboration now extends to accounting firms, law firms, and real estate professionals who are working through their obligations for the first time.

If you are attending the Australian Financial Crime Summit on 1 or 2 September 2026, we would welcome the opportunity to connect in person. Whether you are working through your Tranche 2 obligations, looking for affordable AML compliance tools, or exploring how technology can streamline your customer due diligence process, we are happy to talk.