Susan Grbic, Partner, WeiserMazars to Speak at Knowledge Congress’ LIVE Webcast

NEW YORK - April 7, 2015 - PRLog -- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Susan Grbic, Partner, WeiserMazars will speak at a 2-hour webcast entitled “Emerging Issues: FATCA Goes Global LIVE Webcast” This two-hour event is scheduled on Monday, April 13, 2015 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (ET)

For further details and updated list of speakers, please visit:

http://theknowledgegroup.org/event_name/emerging-issues-fatca-goes-global-live-webcast/

Event Synopsis:

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) came into effect in 2014, forcing overseas banks to disclose account information of US citizens to the Internal Revenue Service or face a 30% withholding on certain applicable payments. The OECD, having developed a similar regime, has introduced the Automatic Exchange of Information (”OECD”) guidelines to help countries standardize information exchange on a global level. Unlike FATCA, the OECD guidelines are applicable based upon tax residency, and require financial institutions to report accounts held by residents of participating jurisdictions.

In a 2-hour live webcast, a panel of key thought leaders organized by The Knowledge Group will provide an overview of Emerging Issues as FATCA Goes Global to help attendees to understand the wide and costly scope of the Act and its potential effects upon national and foreign banks and financial firms, foreign governments, companies, and individual taxpayers. Speakers also will discuss the consequences of the OECD guidelines.

Key topics include:

§  Introductory Section US FATCA as it rolls out in other countries

§  Global Information Exchange:  The Interplay between FATCA, UK CDOT and CRS

About Susan Grbic

Susan is WeiserMazars’ Tax Practice leader for both Financial Services and FATCA. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry focusing principally on significant cross-border transactions including inbound and outbound investment, international and corporate tax planning, and the tax treatment of complex financial products, hybrid instruments and capital markets transactions. She specializes in tax issues concerning financial services clients, including banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and regulated investment companies.

Prior to joining WeiserMazars, Susan was Head of Tax for the Americas at Barclays Capital. In that capacity, she established a best practices tax function which introduced a new product approval process for the banking and trading operations and included tax reporting (US GAAP and IFRS), SOX risk assessment, tax compliance (including oversight of information reporting), transfer pricing and managing and favorably resolving a large case federal tax examination with the Internal Revenue Service. She was also responsible for the tax efficient structuring of the acquisition of the Lehman North American operations. During this time, Susan worked on several projects with the U.S. Treasury regarding the taxation of structured notes as well as with industry groups regarding the tax treatment of prepaid forwards and equity swaps.

About WeiserMazars

Since 1921, WeiserMazars LLP has provided a unique combination of foresight and experience when fulfilling client needs in accounting, tax and advisory services. WeiserMazars’ team of over 100 partners and approximately 650 professionals is based out of eight U.S. offices, Israel and the Cayman Islands. As the independent U.S. member firm of the Mazars Group – a prominent international accounting, audit, tax and advisory services organization with nearly 14,000 professionals in more than 70 countries on six continents – WeiserMazars represents clients of all types, including owner-managed businesses, complex, multi-national organizations and high net worth individuals in a multitude of industries.

About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. Its mission is to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webcasts that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format.

The organization brings together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour webcasts to study the impact of changes and emerging trends. Hear from leading government officials/regulators, key thought leaders, and industry experts objectively analyze the latest trends and issues and their impact on industries.