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The International Revenue Service has published the draft FATCA registration form for public review and comment. A online registration portal will be available in July 2013. RELATED LINK http://www...
An overview of the North American dark pools regulatory landscape The chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be changing, but the urgency in addressing issues surrounding dark...
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have jointly announced their commitment to comply with the new international regulatory standards on financial m...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a final rule to exempt swaps between certain affiliated entities within a corporate group from the clearing requirement of the Commodity Exchange...
I find it fascinating that in recent years, as many enterprises have been executing business strategies focused on simplification and ensuring focus on core business, they have simultaneously reduced ...
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) at its meeting in Sydney in March agreed to establish a task force on cross border regulation and a project on credible deterrence fram...
In our previous blog we saw how MiFID II intends to ensure transparency across all asset classes, including those that are not in scope today, and the impact it will have on market participants. In th...
A shift to the Cloud Computing model may seem an obvious decision for a sector as IT-intensive and data-centric as banking. But it's those very elements that generate the most significant adoption con...
In the age of outsourcing and partnerships, things can go wrong when you are not in control of your own processes. That could damage your brand in many ways. Post Office has never been a media darling...
The publication of the translated guidelines by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) triggers a transitional period of two months during which national supervisors have to declare whet...
The renminbi (RMB) is the official name given to the currency in the People's Republic of China (PRC). "Yuan" (¥) is the name for a unit of this currency (officially traded as CNY). It is is...
For years, dealing with different domestic and international payment and account statement formats was a primary challenge within the domain of corporate payments. In this format-centric era, the conc...