After reading Maureen Lowe’s blog post earlier this week on the first phase of the new Cost-Basis Reporting law that is scheduled to go into effect this January 1st and the release of the IRS’s final requirements, I thought it might be beneficial to look into what all these new cost-basis requirements are all about!
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The Final Cost Basis Reporting Law: Better Late Than Never?
The presenters of our Cost Basis Reporting webinar back in June weren’t too far off in their predictions. Less than three months before the first phase of the new Cost Basis Reporting law is scheduled to go into effect, the IRS at long last decided to release the final requirements. Aside from adding yet another
Corporate Actions
Corporate Actions: There’s an App for That
Guest Contributer:Gerard Bermingham, VP of Product Strategy, Information Mosaic In the past decade, developments in technology have helped automate at least some of the areas of corporate actions processing. The evolution of XML-based middleware applications, for example, has assisted in the automation of data comparison functionality. In its pursuit of the elusive “golden copy” announcement,
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SEC Proxy Access Rule Challenged
The SEC is making headlines yet again. Last week they were in the news for the careless manner in which they handled the Madoff investigations, and they are back again this week getting sued by the 2 largest business lobbying firms in the country. us chamber of commerceThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business
