CPD Webinar - Onboarding Clients Under the AML/CTF Regime

1 CPD Unit – Practice Management and Business Skills

In preparation for the commencement of Tranche 2 of the AML/CTF obligations, many accounting and legal practices are struggling with the same question: What does compliant client onboarding actually look like in practice?

AML/CTF compliance involves more than simply checking a driver’s licence. It involves a deep understanding of who the client is, the nature of the services provided, the resultant risks and what that all means through the lens of your obligations to AUSTRAC as a designated service provider.

Join our upcoming webinar, Onboarding Clients Under the AML/CTF Regime, designed specifically for accountants and lawyers. This session will provide a practical walkthrough of the onboarding process, from having the right AML program and risk assessment in place, through to conducting KYC and KYB checks, assessing client risk, and meeting your record-keeping and reporting obligations.

In the webinar, Nicholas Ahrens from Personr, will explore real-world scenarios to show what compliant onboarding looks like at each stage, and where technology can help create a more structured, efficient process.

Nicholas will cover:

• Introduction to the AML/CTF process;
• Step-by-step client onboarding workflow;
• Practical examples;
• Key requirements and considerations; and
• How technology can support this process.

This webinar will be valuable for firms looking to develop their onboarding processes under the AML/CTF regime, reduce compliance risk, and better understand AUSTRAC’s expectations.

Continuing Professional Development

Legal CPD:

WA legal practitioners (QA Provider ID 29250)

1 CPD Unit, CPD Obligation Field 1 – Practice Management and Business Skills. To ensure you receive your CPD Units for this event, please provide us with your Legal Practice Board Practitioner ID during registration. Note: CPD Units are only available for participation in the live webinar. At this time, webinar recordings (for those that are registered but unable to attend) are not eligible for WA Legal CPD Units.

Legal practitioners outside of WA

If you consider that this webinar satisfies your individual requirement, or is relevant to your immediate or long-term professional development needs, you may claim 0.5 CPD Units for every 30 minutes of attendance and participation.

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Presenter: Nicholas Ahrens
Co-Founder, Personr

Nick Ahrens is the Co-Founder of Personr, a platform dedicated to making powerful financial crime prevention tools accessible through a single, unified solution.

He is committed to helping newly regulated industries, including legal, accounting, and real estate, meet their AUSTRAC obligations with confidence.

Nick began his career studying civil engineering, where he learned a fundamental principle: if the foundation is wrong, everything built on top of it fails.

This is exactly what he observed in AML compliance. Many businesses were trying to meet complex regulatory obligations using outdated tools, spreadsheets, and manual processes, often resulting in inefficiency and unnecessary stress.

In 2021, Nick and his Co-Founder, Charlie Westerman, set out to change this. They built Personr to deliver end-to-end compliance, covering program hosting, KYC and KYB, AML screening, and reporting in one place.

Since then, Personr has raised a seed round backed by Fund WA and now supports regulated businesses across financial services, legal, and accounting as Tranche 2 obligations come into effect.