With little information emerging from the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) on how a central operating unit (COU) would work as part of a global initiative for new identification codes for business entities, market consensus appears to have emerged suggesting a virtual model for data distribution is the best way to move forward. Under such a […]
FATCA: How to Reduce Ops Risk
At the core of FATCA is the need for foreign financial intermediaries to know and report whether securities accounts are owned by US persons who are deliberately trying to avoid paying their correct share of US taxes.In fulfilling the rules of FATCA, the US legislation designed to catch US tax evaders, financial firms would be […]