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No Bank Left Behind: Why Australia’s Smaller Financial Institutions Are Critical to the Fight Against Child Sexual Exploitation
Behind many cases of child sexual exploitation sits a financial transaction that has passed through an Australian bank.
Since 2022, sextortion investigations alone have led to the closure of thousands of Australian bank accounts, and AUSTRAC received over 450,000 suspicious matter reports in 2025.
While major banks have dedicated financial crime teams and sophisticated technology, regional and customer-owned institutions carry the same obligations sometimes with a fraction of resources, making them at risk for displacement of offenders.
Our new Whitepaper on the role of smaller financial institutions, is live now. Read it below!
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