Welcome to Series 2 Episode 6 of Spotlight on Financial Services Tax Series.  Bilal Abba (Director - Middle East Tax Information Reporting Leader) will kickstart the conversation with Anna Zeitlan (Director - Head of Fintech and Financial Services) where they discuss all things Crypto, the crash, CARF, regulations, obligations and its future in the Middle East region.

Welcome to Series 2 Episode 4 of Spotlight on Financial Services Tax Series.  Tetiana Sphak will kickstart the conversation with Bilal Abba (Director - Middle East Tax Information Reporting Leader) on the proposed amendments to the Common Reporting Standard as well as a release of a new global tax transparency framework, which introduces the automatic exchange of tax information on transactions in Crypto-Assets (“Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework” or “CARF”)”.

In the first episode of this series on Financial Services Transfer Pricing: The rise and rise of digital banking, Safae Guennoun, Zachary Noteman and Zeeshan Humayun discussed, amongst other aspects, the importance of transfer pricing considerations from a banking perspective; key transfer pricing considerations when launching a digital bank; how tax authorities around the world are approaching the issue of transfer pricing and digital banking and banking in general as well as global tax updates and the interplay with transfer pricing from a banking perspective.

In the second episode of our second series on Spotlight on Financial Services Tax, Peter Maybrey and Bilal Abba look at BEPS 2.0 proposed changes, a topical subject for many financial institutions at the moment. These significant changes are reshaping the tax landscape and the rules propose two reforms, Pillar One and Pillar Two, which will be discussed in high level throughout this episode.