The 9th FATCA & Withholding Tax Congress returns to you on 2nd & 3rd October in London. You are under significant pressure to be FATCA compliant with fast approaching deadlines for registration and more importantly implementation of new account onboarding by 1st Jan 2014. This is the most interactive forum in Europe, a prime opportunity to learn from the best FATCA experts and build important business relationships with over 100 of your peers. This will be the final chance before the implementation deadline to learn best practice, avoid operational inefficiencies and costly non-compliance penalty risks.

How you will benefit:

• Registration, due diligence, reporting and withholding requirements fully explained
• Discover the most effective methods of client identification, communication and onboarding
• Understand the complexity of compliance under varying IGAs and how to manage implementation at a multinational level
• Scenario plan in the face of FATCA and IGA uncertainty and ensure strategic considerations for a changing global regulatory landscape
• Gain understanding of compliance technologies from leading solution providers – where to invest in new systems and how to adapt existing KYC/AML systems
• Decipher QI and FATCA coexistence
• Explore the latest international developments from the HMRC and OECD
• Banks, investment funds, trusts, insurance companies represented – become part of an ever-growing global tax community

Your international expert speaker faculty includes:

Denise Hintzke, Global Tax Leader, Foreign Account Tax Compliance, Deloitte LLP Biography	Jorge Morley-Smith, Head of Tax, Investment Management Association Biography
Peter Cotorceanu, Head of Product Management, Trusts and Foundations, UBS AG Biography	John Staples, Managing Partner, Burt, Staples & Manner, LLP Biography
Liam Stanbridge, International Tax Director, State Street Biography	Ian Bancroft, Managing Director, Cayman National Bank & Trust Company Biography

View the full speaker line-up

For an industry so exposed and impacted by such regulations, it is our priority to make sure we ease the burden. For the first time you will be able to submit your biggest FATCA conundrums in advance and on the day of the conference, to be answered by a panel of experts in an expert Q&A session. Roundtable discussions will also allow you to fully dissect the information from presentations with your peers. Speakers will be sticking around during the breaks so that you have every opportunity to get advice from experts in your industry group as the conference will cater to the needs of non-US banks, investment funds, trusts, insurance companies and financial intermediaries.

Looking ahead and going global

As you should already be aware of, FATCA is transforming the regulatory environment and leading the way towards global transparency. First came the UK ‘son’ of FATCA pact for the Crown Dependencies, then the G5 countries recently signed a multilateral tax information exchange pilot and even more recently still, the G20 Communique outlines the initiatives of the OECD to put in place standardised reporting and develop an automatic exchange of information. There is no doubt that as the first country in an IGA agreement, the UK is more advanced than any of her continental neighbours; which is why it is exciting and extremely valuable that the HMRC as well as the OECD have both confirmed to share with you the latest regulatory developments and an insight into what the future will bring for the finance industry and what you should already be preparing for!

Who you’ll be joining:

Directors, Heads, VPs, and Managers of:

You will be networking exclusively with a crowd of like-minded professionals from banks, investments managers, insurers, and the big 4, including your competitors and potential collaborators.

Here is a sample of the delegates who attended the 8th FATCA & Withholding Tax Congress.