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The US and Japanese authorities have issued a joint statement to facilitate the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The statement is intended to clarify the details of t...
In a beauty parade of global funds centres, how attractive is the UK? While the UK is still Europe’s leading centre for fund management, its share of fund domicile has fallen in the last decade, losin...
According to a report published by Technology Business Research last week, IT investment among North American banks is on the rise, with one of the main drivers for this being data management. This e...
Chief Finance Officers (CFOs) or Directors of Finance (FDs) are continuously challenged to get the most out of their data. With new regulatory and compliance requirements placing greater emphasis on g...
I recently came across two announcements I believe deserve a comment. I wish to thank my colleague Nancy Atkinson for her precious contribution. Background news Metro Bank acquires SME Invoice Finance...
One represents the convergence of four individually disruptive technologies into a symbiotic stack that even onomatopoeically conjures a hit – SMAC! The other is, well, the treasury function – a centr...
Who would have thought that one of the key components of an electronic document would be a printer? Aren’t printers for paper and isn’t this a contradiction to an electronic invoice? In the case of M...
I recently published a blog post titled “International Expansion in Financial Services” discussing how banks are supporting the needs of multi-national companies through expansion into new geographie...
The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) has proposed new data collection requirements related to selected money market instruments. To assist in monitoring money market conditions, the proposal will require
Just "me, me, me!": although there are some "contactless EMV" standards, each card scheme (Visa, MasterCard and Amex) requires separate testing and certification of contactless te...
The Brazilian SEFAZ, tax authority, in combination with the ENCAT, the technical arm of the SEFAZ, has just published the latest version of Nota Fiscal as of July. In future blogs, we will be discu
Risk Managers and Risk Architects were enjoying a slow beginning to the year when the Basel Committee decided to release a new directive of risk data aggregation and risk reporting. Sure enough, no or...