Aussie start-up’s value soars to $16b as scrutiny intensifies
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- ▪It moves more than $1 billion a day and counts Qantas, Canva and Culture Amp among its customers, and is now domiciled in the Cayman Islands, with head offices in Singapore and San Francisco.The money lands at a fraught moment.
- ▪In January, the financial crimes regulator AUSTRAC ordered an external audit of Airwallex’s anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing program, at the company’s expense, saying it had “reasonable grounds to suspect” breaches of s
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