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  • FATCA AML/KYC procedures in Hong Kong: State-of-the-art compliance?

    August 17, 2020

    Can tax authorities rely on the fact that financial institutions have adequate AML/KYC and client due diligence procedures in place to populate and file the fiscal information required under FATCA?Read more

  • FATCA and CRS Curing Periods

    August 10, 2020

    Our affiliate, Marco Zawar, asks if FATCA and CRS document curing and classification requests to verify Change in Circumstances are being correctly implemented.Read more

  • QI Status – Is It Worth It?

    June 1, 2020

    To QI, or not to QI? That is the question – and one we get asked about an awful lot. […]Read more

  • Deferral of FATCA and CRS Reporting Deadlines – Should You Be Taking Advantage?

    May 20, 2020

    With the entrance of Covid-19, a lot of things have changed in the world, and a lot of extra stressors have piled on. And it's left firms wondering, should they take advantage of the defered FATCA and CRS reporting deadlines?Read more

  • TRACE: The next big tax thing

    October 2, 2019

    Since Finland announced that it would be the first country to adopt the OECD’s The Tax Relief and Compliance Enhancement (TRACE) IP from 1st January 2021, there has been much excitement in the marketplace about the new regime and the opportunity it presents for financial institutions operating in global markets.Read more

  • Benefits of Being a US Qualified Intermediary: Malta Stock Exchange

    December 21, 2018

    TConsult is delighted to announce that we have been invited to present a training course for the Malta Stock Exchange, where we will be delivering a two hour presentation discussing the benefits of being a US qualified intermediary at 9am on Monday 21st January 2019.Read more

  • Nationality, domicile, residency, citizenship and beneficial ownership

    October 10, 2018

    We often find that linguistic issues can cause problems for firms looking to establish the correct withholding rate for their clients. In particular, we have seen the distinctions between nationality, citizenship, domicile, residency and beneficial ownership cause a degree of avoidable consternation. In this post, we present a quick reference guide.Read more

  • CorpActions2018 (London)

    September 24, 2018

    TConsult's chairman, Ross McGill, will be appearing as a panelist at CorpActions2018 in London on Wednesday 3rd October alongside Mariano Giralt from BNY Mellon and Paola Deantoni from SG Securities Services to discuss tax and reporting, including inefficient withholding tax collection procedures, communication flow issues across cross-border capital markets, tax evasion regulation, where the responsibility for failures lies, and entitlements.Read more

  • Tax Congress for Financial Institutions (London)

    September 17, 2018

    TConsult's chairman, Ross McGill, will be appearing as a panelist at the Tax Congress for Financial Institutions in London on Wednesday 19th September alongside Peter Grant from KPMG and Kevin Custis from Rathbones to discuss KYC, AML, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion in the Digital Age.Read more

  • FATCA Failures: Holistic compliance or just full of holes?

    July 9, 2018

    In the last eighteen months we’ve conducted compliance reviews in five countries on twelve Tier 2 and Tier 3 financial institutions. In this post, we unpick the strategies we have seen firms use to approach their QI and FATCA obligations, and highlight the problems we have observed when firms fail to take a holistic approach to compliance.Read more

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