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1 FATCA Leveraging existing IT solutions for compliance
Jeroen Dekker, Senior Product Manager Financial Crime Risk Management SWIFT Poland National Member & User Group, December 11, 2013 Quickly introduce myself incl ACAMS, ACFCS, SIBOS experience

2 Once upon a time, in a new land called AML…
Core Banking Onboarding Monitoring

3 Agenda Our Perspective Quick Introduction to FATCA
What We’ve Been Seeing FATCA Team Functions Requirements Round-up Case Study Call to Action

4 Fiserv International Today
25+ years experience 70+ countries and multiple languages Number 1supplier of software & services to the FS industry for 6 years (FinTech100) 19,000 employes Polish Customers: ING Bank BZWBK Millennium Bank Santander Consumer Bank Strong presence in Poland: Local office since 1993 Regional Internet and Mobile Warsaw Competency Centre Regional 24/7 HelpDesk Solutions serviced in Poland Core Banking application Front End and Teller applications Fraud and Reconciliation Management applications Custom development services NASDAQ quoted (FISV) $4.42 bn Revenue 2012 $597m Free cash flow 17000 clients worldwide 40+ employees in Poland

5 Technology Solutions Across the Institution
Processing Services Solutions for managing account-based transactions – reliably and securely Payments Solutions for optimizing all aspects of the payments mix to help you create efficiency and drive growth Risk and Compliance Solutions for proactive risk prevention and mitigation One of largest technology providers to financial services industry in the world Core banking systems helping with FATCA by expanding for U.S. indicia and other FATCA data Being U.S. company gives us deep knowledge of U.S. regulations and regulators Within Risk & Compliance, I’m in the financial crime risk management space Insights and Optimization Solutions that help you transform data from information to actionable business insights Customer and Channel Management Solutions for attracting, retaining and growing customer relationships

6 Fiserv offerings around SWIFT traffic
Risk / Financial Crime Control / Processing Sanctions Screening Reconciliation AML monitoring Trade Processing Fraud Prevention Payments processing FATCA monitoring

7 Today’s perspective Solutions Data focus Capabilities Industries
Fraud AML Sanctions Corruption FATCA Data focus Customers Accounts Transactions Capabilities Anomaly detection Case Management Reporting Financial Crime Risk Management Software Platform Behavioral Monitoring Financial Institutions 1000+ clients Market leader Industries Retail Commercial Private Securities Insurance Regions EMEA ASPAC LACC NA USA Not presenting today from a legal, tax or financial perspective AML heritage and connections to FATCA Operations & technology for dedicated financial crime risk management teams Broad and deep experience

8 A new frontier in Financial Crime Risk Management
What is FATCA? Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act U.S. regulation to combat offshore tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers Regulations produced by U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Targeted mainly at financial institutions outside the U.S. Requirements to identify and report certain (U.S.) accounts Through prescribed onboarding, remediation, monitoring processes Severe (withholding) penalties for non-compliance U.S. institutions tasked with monitoring/enforcing Final regulations published in February 2013 Phased implementation from 2013 through 2017 Consider re-working A new frontier in Financial Crime Risk Management

9 How FATCA evolved… and spread
FBI case against UBS HIRE Act passed in 2010 Drafts & Notices IGA Models Final regulations Delayed implementation Guidance …? Global initiatives: FATF OECD G8 / G20 EU

10 What we have been seeing
Tax Compliance (AML) Legal Operations IT Run through exposure to clients & prospects, build-up since 2011 A typical FATCA project team

11 The Team’s Current Focus
Onboarding CDD Primary processes: Additional data capture Forms & procedures Decentralized approach Core Banking Data warehouse Decentralized: branches, agents, countries, business units, online Experience: panic, analyze, influence, wait, scramble, wait Relate current thinking and AML compliance Task force > Standing central FATCA team Manage project phases Database reports for monitoring & control

12 Fiserv Core Banking – FATCA Phase 1 Identification and Due Diligence
Phase 1 Changes Bank Level Parameterization of IRS issued GIIN Branch Level Parameterization of IRS issued GIIN Add additional Static Data pages Create new ‘Foreign Tax Compliance’ pages Modifications to Customer to Customer Relationships page Create new ‘Foreign Tax Compliance Exception’ report Modifications to Bank Profile Maintenance Report Modifications to Customer Information Maintenance Log Modifications to New Customer Information Report Phase 1 Changes Bank Level Parameterization of IRS issued GIIN Branch Level Parameterization of IRS issued GIIN Add additional Static Data pages Create new ‘Foreign Tax Compliance’ pages Create new ‘Foreign Tax Compliance Exception’ report Modifications to Customer to Customer Relationships page Modifications to Bank Profile Maintenance Report Modifications to Customer Information Maintenance Log Modifications to New Customer Information Report

13 New ‘Foreign Tax Compliance’ pages
The FFI must also investigate the FATCA status of non-personal customers. If the non-personal customer is a U.S. person/entity the FFI is obligated to report information to the IRS. Additionally, although the non-personal customer may not be a U.S. person/entity the FFI may still be obligated to report information to the IRS if the customer is ‘substantially owned’ by a U.S. person or entity (i.e. more than 10% owned by a U.S. person/entity). The ‘Foreign Tax Compliance’ page for personal customers contains the following fields: Verification complete – Options for this field are ‘Y’ and ‘N’. During investigation this field should be set to ‘N’, indicating that the investigation is underway. Once the investigation is complete, this field should be set to ‘Y’, indicating that you have determined the FATCA status of the customer as either being a U.S. person, not a U.S. person or a recalcitrant customer. Country of tax reporting – The country to which the customer must report tax information. Self certification – As part of the account opening process (or subsequent to account opening for existing customers), if you have asked the customer if he/she is a U.S. person, then this field should be set to ‘Y’. If you have not asked the customer to ‘self certify’ as a U.S. person, then this field should be set to ‘N’. Certification response – The customers response to being asked to ‘self certify’ as a U.S. person. Options include: Blank IDK – I don’t know NTR – Not a U.S. tax resident P – Pending R – Refuse to respond TR – U.S. tax resident Other user defined options Privacy Waiver – Some jurisdictions that do not have an ‘International Governmental Agreement’ may not allow PFFIs to report information to foreign tax agencies without the customers consent. This Yes/No field indicates if the customer has submitted a privacy waiver, consenting to having the PFFI report tax information to foreign entities. Recalcitrant – If the customer fails to provide the information required to determine whether the account is a U.S. account, the customer is considered ‘recalcitrant’. Enter ‘Y’ into this field if the customer is recalcitrant or N if the customer is not recalcitrant. Social security nbr – The customers social security number. This field shares the same value as the field on the Static Data page. Any changes made on the Static Data page will update on the FTC page and vice versa. However, an edit on the FTC page limits the data length to 9 characters. Tax ID flag – The type of TIN. Options include: Blank (indicates SSN) F – Foreign customer T – Tax identification number Tax information code – The customers tax identification code. National ID number – The customers national ID number. Tax certificate type – The type of tax certificate filed with a foreign tax agency. Options include: 1 – W-9 2 – W-8 3 – W-8BEN 4 – W-8BEN-E 5 – W-8ECI 6 – W-8EXP 7 – W-8IMY Recipient Type – The recipient type as indicated on the tax certificate. Options include: I – Individual C – Corporation E – Exempt O – Organization P – Partnership T – Trust Effective Date – Date the tax certificate is effective. Expiration Date – Date the tax certificate expires. Foreign customer type – Identifies the non-personal customer as being either an FFI or NFFE 1 – NFFE 2 – FFI FFI – If the non-personal customer is an FFI, this field indicates the type of FFI. Options include: 00 – Not applicable 01 – Participating FFI (PFFI) 02 – Non-Participating FFI (NPFFI) 03 – Prima-Facie FFI 04 – Registered Deemed-compliant FFI 05 – Certified Deemed-compliant FFI 06 – Owner Documented FFI 07 – Territory FFI FFI GIIN – If the non-personal customer is a Participating FFI (PFFI), the assigned GIIN may be entered in this field. This GIIN may be compared with the IRS published list of Participating FFIS to confirm that the FFI is considered a Participating FFI by the IRS. Once the investigation is complete, the ‘Foreign tax compliance required’ field on the first static data page should be set to the appropriate option. If your investigation results determine the customer is a U.S. person/entity, then the ‘Foreign tax compliance required’ field should be set to ‘Y’. If the customer is not a U.S. person/entity, then the ‘Foreign tax compliance required’ field should be set to ‘N’. If the investigation is complete and the ‘Verification complete’ field is set to ‘Y’ and customer is a U.S. person/entity and the ‘Foreign tax compliance’ field is set to ‘Y’, then Signature requires that certain fields on the ‘Foreign tax compliance’ page be complete. These required fields support the determination that the customer is required to report tax information to a foreign tax agency. The following fields are required when both the ‘Verification complete’ and the ‘Foreign tax compliance required’ fields are set to ‘Y’: Country of tax reporting Self certification Self certification response Privacy waiver Recalcitrant FFI FFI GIIN This page is available from the Create, Change and Display functions.

14 ‘Foreign Tax Compliance Exception’ report
A new report labeled ‘Foreign Tax Compliance Exception’ has been created to assist with identification of potential exception conditions. A item will be added to this report in the following conditions: FATCA requires PFFIs to apply a 30% punitive withholding to all withholdable payments to recalcitrant customers. If a customer is a U.S. person that has been identified as recalcitrant (i.e. the ‘FTC required’ and the ‘Recalcitrant’ field are both set to ‘Y’) and the Withholding Code (Static Data page) is blank, the system will write an item to the FTC Exception report with the message: “Recalcitrant customer with no customer withholding”. (Note: The actual withholding requirements will be addressed in Phase 2) FATCA requires that the FATCA status be determined within 90 days of opening a new customer account. For new customer accounts that have been open more than 90 days, if the ‘FTC required’ field is set to ‘Y’, the ‘Recalcitrant’ field is set to ‘N’ and the ‘FTC Documentation Verified Date’ is blank, the system will write an item to the FTC Exception report with the message: “Customer 90+ days old with no verified documentation date” . This will identify all accounts that you have determine FTC reporting is required and the customer is not recalcitrant, but you have not entered the ‘document verified date’. If the customers record is older than 90 days (i.e. ‘Date Opened’ is more than 90 days ago), the ‘Foreign tax compliance required’ field is set to ‘Yes’ and the ‘Verification complete’ field is set to ‘No’ a message is displayed: “FTC has not been verified”. This indicates that you have identified a customer as being required to comply with FATCA, but you have not yet completed your investigation. The columns on the report are: CIF KEY – The customers CIF Key SHORT NAME – Customers short name DATE OPENED – The date the customer account was opened BRANCH – The branch associated with the customer account (i.e. Branch number field on the Static Data page) OFFICER – The primary officer number associated with the customer account (i.e. Primary officer number field on Static Data page) EXCEPTION DETAILS – The message output based on the conditions outlined above. The report is primarily sorted by ‘Branch’, secondarily sorted by ‘Officer’, then tertiary sorted by ‘Date Opened’. The report will be configured to run on a daily basis.

15 A Central Back Office FATCA Team – For What?
CDD, Core, CRM and Payment systems New Accounts Pre-existing accounts Payments Reporting Simplified to show main business domains, to avoid already discussing FATCA team functions Your FATCA Team ?

16 Central FATCA Team Functions (1/2)
Act as a second line of control Avoid single points of failure Assure process consistency & correct outcomes Use automated (double) checking of data Handle exceptions and escalations Detect and alert what falls through the cracks Workflow & case management remediation Holistic view of final status for all customers Maintain central oversight Understand, manage, inform Produce lists, metrics, special cases Normalization across all operations & systems Prepare for future examinations IRS or local examiners, internal audit Show and justify how decisions were made Audit trails, recordkeeping, reporting Could consider removing bullet lists to discuss verbally – but these slides (10 and 13) are the heart of our pitch

17 Example 1 – New Individual Client Walks in
Self-certification US taxpayer Not US taxpayer Don’t know Refuse to answer (pending) Does KYC data reveal any US indicia to contradict a claim of ‘Not US taxpayer’? Do we have enough KYC data to verify such claims? Did we receive Self-Certification, and receive it on time? (90 days) Alert ‘US taxpayer’ for second line approval/classification Alert ‘Don’t Know’/ ‘Refuse’ for escalation Automated Detection KYC data Address(es) Phone number(s) Nationality Country of birth Identification, etc. Explain data capture, manual vs. automated, types of questions to answer, Second line verification vs. initial classification Once a year - Report new US accounts whose aggregated balance on December 31 exceeded $50,000 FATCA Status

18 Example 2 – New Entity Client Walks in
Determine Chapter 4 classification during onboarding Capture address, ownership and business type data A tool for the back office FATCA team can provide: Scenarios to verify Chapter 4 status against available data Mention legal form, industry code etc. as regular (AML) onboarding data to check against Escalate classification issues to the FATCA team Alert Passive NFFEs with owner(s) with US indicia Daily alerts for changes in circumstances

19 Central FATCA Team Functions (2/2)
Remediation of pre-existing accounts Project best led by centralized back office Ingest hits from electronic/paper searches Manage tasks, documentation, decisions Periodically determine reportable accounts FATCA status and current (aggregated) balance Periodic automated selection & data collection Prevent duplicate/repeat reporting Prepare, validate, generate, send reports IRS XML Form or local equivalent Controlled and auditable process Don’t underestimate data and workflow Perform ongoing monitoring On all new and pre-existing accounts Location, structure, ownership, their location Payments to non- consenting accounts/FIs Could consider removing bullet lists to discuss verbally – but these slides (10 and 13) are the heart of our pitch

20 Issues Not Tackled Today
Forms required during onboarding/remediation Ongoing tax reporting to IRS Withholding (determination, calculation, execution) Quick slide to explain that there is more to FATCA than what I am listing Clean slide to give the audience a break from visual overkill

21 Example 3 – Existing Account Remediation
CRM Core System X AML Import US indicia hits as alerts Case Management Workflow Tasks Document capture Classification Reporting … and check against balance thresholds and exemptions for relevance! Clarifies proposition for centralized handling of existing account hits

22 Tooling Requirements Round-up
Data on customers, accounts, balances, transactions, process Automated analysis, detection rules, alerting Workflow and case management Regulatory reporting Management reporting Audit trails Flexibility for future requirements (FATCA and copy-cats) Summarize technology requirements Make quick link to our technology to set up case study If only there were such a system…

23 Client Case Study Global insurance and wealth management firm
Agents, locations, business units as first line Corporate compliance as second line Leverage existing system used for AML, Fraud, Market Conduct Add first-line FATCA process outcomes as data feed How they use it Detection scenarios for changes, inconsistencies, notifications Use of case management for remediation, approvals etc. Management reports for counts and lists Ok to use Manulife name/logo? Verbally discuss benefits of holistic customer view, single investment in data/system

24 Monitoring, Control and Reporting for FATCA Compliance
CDD, Core, CRM and Payment systems New account classification Pre-existing accounts Ongoing monitoring Payments withholding Your FATCA Team Data: AML, indicia, payments, FATCA process Detection: verification & monitoring Case management: remediation & audit Automated checks Exception handling Approvals and audit Central oversight Management Reporting IRS XML Reporting

25 Call to Action Use your time wisely Learn from AML history
Look and plan ahead Leverage proven capabilities End on an informal note


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