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Over the past few months, there has been a flurry of FATCA activity – including more than 110 submissions to the US Treasury Department from concerned industry groups, financial institutions, individuals and other lobby groups.  This culminated in a one-day public hearing held in Washington on 15 May.The IRS has also released further guidance on…

Since the proposed FATCA regulations were issued on 8 February 2012, there have been quite a few people burning the midnight oil to digest and understand the draft regulations so that a formal response could be submitted to the US Treasury by the 30 April 2012 deadline.The next stage in the process was a public…

Anyone who has been involved in designing, building, deploying or ultimately managing an anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF Program) and has lived to tell the tale will agree on at least one thing – what appears to be relatively straightforward in theory is a great deal more complex to implement in practice, such is…

This webinar was facilitated by Joy Geary and involves a discussion on the similarities and differences between the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (Act) and the challenges that Foreign Financial Institutions (FFIs) can expect to face during the design, build and implementation of FATCA compliance programs. Click here…