FATCA a reminder of Washington’s global business/financial leverage – local banker

The head office of a local comercial bank

A local commercial bank official has told Stabroek Business that the compliance of banks and other financial institutions in Guyana and other developing countries with the provisions of the United States’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was “entirely unsurprising” and that “nothing different” could have been expected of the Guyana banking community.

“If you set aside the virtues or otherwise of the US legislation,