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  • Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Rules of the Road

    Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Rules of the Road

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    KYC and AML Regulations KYC (Know Your Customer) laws refer to regulations that require financial institutions and other businesses to verify the identity of their customers and clients in order to prevent money laundering, terrorism financing, and other forms of financial crimes. KYC laws were introduced in the United States in the 1970s under the…

  • Kyckr Expands Coverage to China as Need for Know-Your-Customer Technology Increases

    Kyckr Expands Coverage to China as Need for Know-Your-Customer Technology Increases

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    SAN FRANCISCO, September 30, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Kyckr Limited (ASX:KYK), a regulatory technology company, is pleased to announce it has added China to its network of corporate registry connections, as the need for reliable Know-Your-Customer (KYC) solutions continues to grow at a time of increasingly stringent anti-money laundering (AML) regulations and enforcement. Over the past year, there…

  • Financial Institutions AML & KYC

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    Financial institutions fear to be wittingly or unwittingly implicated when they are used to settle, facilitate, or finance international trade transactions (e.g., through processing wire transfers, providing trade finance, and issuing letters of credit and guarantees). Implication is criminal prosecution for money laundering. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) rules extends to everybody and leads to…

  • Corporatize your Offshore Capital Structure

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    [box]AML & KYC are the first issues for consideration, when planning an Offshore Capital Structure.[/box] The best course of action to ring-fence liability, is this ORS/402(b) program. FATCA and the Automatic Exchange of Financial Information reporting rules are enforced now. The PRC has the same rules about foreign financial account reporting as does the USA.…

  • Your Foreign Company and Tax

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    Word is that Morgan Stanley in NYC has reduced their Wealth Manager staff by 15% because a) Annual filing of data to automatic report in compliance to the OECD Common Reporting Standard is a minimum cost annually of $600.00 per account and they have 2.5 Trillion under management, so you can just imagine the reporting costs;…

  • Investing Offshore requires forward thinking

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    Donald Trump’s Fiscal Tax Plan will increase the ultimate yield on your corporate projects and investments offshore. Trump’s plan scraps dividend tax and at the same time it scraps the foreign bank interest tax exemption. Which means, for example, bank lending overnight from the Cayman is redundant / irrelevant. ”Tax Havens” such as Cayman, Bermuda,…