Challenges in financial services transfer pricing in 2012

February 01 2012

The financial services industry seems certain to navigate 2012 through turbulent waters with the eurozone crisis unfolding by the day, the increasingly visible hand of state regulation and bailouts, political sensitivity cumulating in the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the surging influence of the G20 emerging economies in global finance. Sam Sim and Akiko Sumikawa, two financial services transfer pricing specialists, for a leading global bank, say that taxpayers who assume the present trend will continue risk missing some forces already upon us that are shaping the future of financial services transfer pricing (FSTP).

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