FATCA's Impact on Brazil-USA Cross Border Activities

Friday, December 19 (10 am until noon) at the OAB-SC in Florianapolis - FATCA's Impact on Brazil-USA Cross Border Activities, and the OECD's Common Reporting Standards ("GATCA").

Com o apoio da OAB/SC, Comissão de Direito Tributário, ESA, CRC e IBET-SC, lá vamos nós fechar o ano com chave de OURO!!!

Tradução simultânea na palestra com o Prof. William Byrnes, bestselling author of 30 books for LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer; Associate Dean, Graduate & Distance Education, International Tax & Financial Services; Fellowship, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation; LL.M. Universiteit van Amsterdam. Vagas limitadíssimas para os primeiros 40 VIP guests. Corre: http://www.academiatributaria.com.br/?opcao=ver_curso&id=8

Former Islanders co-owner sentenced to 10 years for billion dollar ponzi scheme

see International Financial Law Prof Blog 



The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)  announced that Paul Greenwood operated a $1.3 billion investment scam where he and a co-Defendant misappropriated at least $554 million from commodity pool participants, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for charges related to his participation in the scam. Earlier, on July 28, 2010, Greenwood pled guilty to a six-count criminal indictment on the charges, including a commodities fraud charge in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). see International Financial Law Prof Blog 

OECD Releases 1st Foreign Bribery Report today!

read the full story with links at International Financial Law Prof Blog



An analysis of the crime of bribery of foreign public officials

Most international bribes are paid by large companies, usually with the knowledge of senior management, according to new OECD analysis of the cost of foreign bribery and corruption.

Bribes in the analysed cases equalled 10.9% of the total transaction value on average, and 34.5% of the profits – equal to USD 13.8 million per bribe. But given the complexity and concealed nature of corrupt transactions, this is without doubt the mere tip of the iceberg ...

read the full story with links at International Financial Law Prof Blog

Analysis of the 2014 FATCA GIIN Registration Lists

excerpted from International Financial Law Prof Blog ...

Haydon Perryman and I have sifted through the GIIN lists of June through December.  I present Part 1 initial analysis below.  Part 2 on Thursday. 

By the way, the 3rd edition of my Lexis Guide to FATCA Compliance will be out soon with substantial more analysis – 1,200 pages over 54 chapters.  Over 50 FATCA compliance experts from tier 1 institutions, former government officials, and professional firms have contributed to create this detailed and robust guide, filled with numerous practical examples and several chapters written specifically for the non-legal, compliance operations officer.  No filler pages of publicly available documents and regurgitated regulations – it’s all beef.  See the Lexis website to order a copy of this 3rd edition.

Origin                          Registrations (Nov 1)    (Dec 1) 

Model 1A IGA                          66,619                          71,334

Model 1B IGA                          25,847                          27,550

Model 2 IGA                            16,902                          17,098

US & US Territories                 777                              795

Non-IGA                                  5,959                            6,094

Total                                       116,104                       122,881

GIIN List (2014)          Total Registrations

June                                        77,354

July                                         82,994

August                                    95,239

September                              99,861

October                                   104,344

November                               116,104

December                               122,881 

read the analysis and specific country based numbers at International Financial Law Prof Blog