Analysis of the 2014 FATCA GIIN Registration Lists
Posted by William Byrnes on December 2, 2014
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.
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…. The November 2014 list saw a jump in registration, led by the United Kingdom, achieving a total of 116,104 FFIs and branch registrations.[6] 43 percent of all registered GIIN are from the UK and her Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. The final GIIN list released before submission for publication, December’s, grew by only six thousand registrations, to 122,881, of which only 6,094 were from non-IGA countries. Such a stunted growth in FFI registration is foreboding of the remaining, significant compliance challenges. …. read the entire story at International Financial Law Prof Blog
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