Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Chair
Megan Styles, Barrister, Foley’s List
Practice Management
Risk Assessment and AML/CFT Program Requirements: Key Principles for Real Estate Professionals
- Risk assessment frameworks: how to assess financial crime risks in real estate
- AML/CFT program requirements: key program components for compliance
- Legal obligations: understanding the AML/CFT requirements for real estate businesses
- Practical steps: implementing a compliance framework within a real estate business
Presented by Simon Taylor, Partner, PWC; 30 years of experience in AML/CTF compliance
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Megan Styles, Barrister, Foley’s List
Megan is a barrister at the Victorian Bar and accepts briefs across Australia in a broad range of matters. She has a particular interest in matters involving AML/CTF legislation, asset tracing and proceeds of crime/asset confiscation, financial crime investigations, disclosure issues, law enforcement, bankruptcy and insolvency law and mortgage disputes. Prior to being called to the Bar, Megan was a Principal Litigation Lawyer and Team Leader with the Australian Federal Police Criminal Assets Litigation team of the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce. Megan regularly advises and appears in matters involving state and federal agencies, corporations, law enforcement bodies and financial institutions, in a variety of courts and tribunals. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University, on proceeds of crime. In 2023, Megan was invited to present at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Cambridge University and in 2024, attended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Summer School on Transnational Organised Crime.
Simon Taylor, Partner, PWC
Simon Taylor leads PwC's Financial Crime practice and is based in Melbourne, Australia. Simon specialises in AML/CTF risk management and transformation and has extensive experience leading large teams to solve complex financial crime risk challenges across various sectors, both in the United States and Australia. Simon has experiencing designing and implementing innovative operating models and frameworks, that leverages analytics and technology, to address regulatory compliance, enable operational excellence and ultimately delivering higher quality intelligence to regulatory bodies and law enforcement. Simon also has extensive experience conducting deep dive reviews to identify root cause issues in AML/CTF processes and works with clients to address tactically, and strategically. Simon works closely with large AUSTRAC reporting entities senior management teams, and boards, to deliver large scale change and regulatory response programs. Simon's expertise also extends to areas such as fraud, scams, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption risk management.
