Businesses are required to enrol and register their business with AUSTRAC as money remittances services are part of Designated Services under the AML/CTF Act in Australia.  Please see references below. 
http://austrac.gov.au/businesses/enrolment-and-remitter-registration/enrolment-and-registration
​http://austrac.gov.au/businesses/enrolment-and-remitter-registration/remittance-sector-register​

Businesses will need to have an AML/CTF Compliance Program implemented prior to providing remittance services, including but not limited to:

• Collecting and verifying customer identification
• Transaction monitoring system including PEP screening
• Reporting of IFTI and TTR
• Reporting of suspicious matters
• ML/TF risk awareness training
• Record keeping

Businesses should commit the time and resource to ensure that they comply with the AML/CTF requirements in Australia. 

Remittance service providers are required to comply with the sanctions regime in Australia and internationally by screening the names of the sender and receiver of every transaction against the sanctions lists on an automated basis. These lists require constant updates and are available through reputable vendors. 

Remittance service providers should be declaring to their bank about the nature of their business (e.g. Groceries and remittance services). Remittance business must not misrepresent to their banks or mislead the banks in order to hide their remittance business. Further, if a service provider is engaged to help establish a bank account for the remittance business, the arrangement should not misrepresent or mislead the bank in order for the remittance business to open or maintain a bank account.

Remittance service providers must ensure that the customers’ funds for remittance transactions are not co-mingled with other funds of the business. There needs to be a separation of the funds in order to protect the remittance customers from any form of abuse or mishandling. Remittance providers with mixed businesses should request for separate bank accounts to manage their customers’ funds and other working capital. 

Any form of unlicensed or unregulated remittance is not allowed. Remittance service providers must report to AUSTRAC, IFTIs, and TTR and SMR’s as required. 

Businesses should not employ undocumented, anonymous and informal fund transfers that avoid having a money trail for regulators and law enforcement agencies to conduct their monitoring and supervision. There should be formal checks and balances with an audit trail for auditors and government enforcement agencies to conduct their reviews.

Depending on the size and complexity of the remittance service provider, the business should implement a Treasury function to buy and sell foreign currency. The function should prohibit speculation in the local currency, prohibit foreign exchange transactions at anything other than the official rate of exchange, and conduct trades with licensed foreign exchange dealers such as the banks and foreign exchange houses. 

Remittance services providers are recommended to undergo the ARCPA Certification program to become a Certified Member. This certification is an industry accreditation program that establishes the benchmark of compliance best practice for the remittance industry in Australia. Remittance service providers who are awarded as ARCPA Certified Member, distinguishes themselves for their quality, professionalism and commitment to the highest compliance standard.