Cops, banks team up to track cash feeding child abuse

Cyber security staff at a major Australian bank will work with police to help stop child abuse. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Experts from a major Australian bank will be embedded alongside child-abuse investigators in a nation-first attempt to stymie the flow of cash linked to the exploitation of minors.

Transactions related to child-abuse material will be tracked and investigated under the 12-month collaboration between ANZ and the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation.