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Senior Managing Consultant • Financial Services Sector • Global Business Services • Greater China Group
+852 9625 2427 • +852 2825 6977 • paulsin@hk1.ibm.com • Nov 2012
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FATCA requirements have 3 different impacts to the technology
platform, namely customer classification, transaction monitoring
(and withholding), and IRS reporting.
Classification
& Maintenance
Customers Counter-Party
KYC
(FATCA Indica) (FATCA Certification)
Participant Non-Participant
Transaction
Monitoring
US Source Income:
$100 → $70
Account Account
Non-US Source Income:
$100 → $70
IRS Reporting
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The 5 key challenges, including 1) agility, 2) automation, 3)
compliance, 4) customer impact, and 5) integration, can only be
addressed by workflow and rule-based engine.
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the
the account
account isis required
required toto be
be
Express the treated as a US account U.S. Client
treated as a US account Deploy business
business logic as then Identification
then services
rules for each individual
for each individual holder
holder
the
the FFI
FFI should
should collect
collect aa Form
Form W-9
W-9
Shared services
Business language
Platform agnostic
1 business rule = 1 WODM rule
Consistency and traceability
Transparency
Rule
Externalize and Bring the IT and
Repository
centralize the the lines of
business logic business together Rule Designer Decision Center
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FATCA rules are not developed from scratch, but from a foundation
and dictionary.
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The value proposition of a rule-based account opening process can
be extended beyond FATCA into strategic advantages.
Other Consulting
Firms Gap Analysis Long Process of Continual System Enhancement
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