LCH is confident in Apac’s swaps and derivatives market, and has been working to localise its products. Having more local banks onboard is one of the approaches.
The US government recently issued regulations to counter tax inversions and earnings stripping, but also appeared to claim powers to delve into your balance sheet and characterise debt as it pleases.
US plans to curb tax inversions; Safe to conduct more intensive inspections on illegal FX transactions; Taiwan may include anti- tax evasion clauses; Indonesia spearheads financial liberalisation; and much more…
With the US IRS making FATCA registration and GIIN data public, compliance consultants are building business intelligence databases that CFOs and treasurers might be interested in.
Deadlines for FATCA submissions on 2014 data have been pushed back in Singapore, while compliance experts say the complexity of intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) will cause broader delays across Asia.