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From the Ground Up: Infrastructure Investment Faces Data Challenges
With calls for massive investment in infrastructure ringing across North America and Europe, private investment in these projects should be flourishing. Yet, many institutional investors still view these opportunities with a balance of interest and caution.Tim Bourgaize Murray takes a look at assets full of potential, but lacking for data.
'Gatca' Information Exchanges Agreement Signed
51 countries on board with information exchange standard to launch in 2017
Linedata Adds Fatca Tax Withholding, AML Upgrades
Linedata's Mshare transfer agency software can now be used to automate the withholding of a 30% tax on US-sourced income to individuals and entities that are not compliant with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
Fatca Drives Data Operations Changes
As a July 1 deadline approaches, it's become evident that the US Fatca tax withholding regulation has driven big changes in data collection and reporting, as the industry works to comply with the new tax withholding rules. Michael Shashoua reports on…
Grains of Truth
Demand for granular data is being driven by global regulation and standards efforts. Michael Shashoua covers some Asia-Pacific viewpoints about the reporting demands that these rules create, and their built-in jurisdictional issues
Crowdsourcing Makes A Giant Leap
The idea of crowdsourcing reference data processing and management work got a big boost this week, with a venture fund and former Thomson Reuters CEO lending their support to provider WorkFusion
BEPS Spreads Tax Data Collection Wider
An international policy forum is working on a project to collect and coordinate pricing data from multiple markets, with the intent of clearing up jurisdictional issues
Fatca-Fueled Shuffle
The US foreign tax collection regulation is beginning to drive firms to change data documentation and management procedures. Michael Shashoua audits the developments
BNY Mellon Exec Predicts 'Global Fatca'
Amy Harkins, a senior vice-president and managing director at BNY Mellon, points to discussions about a "Global Fatca" sparked by various nations' responses to the US foreign tax compliance regulation