Resources

Field notes from the compliance front lines.

Practitioner guides, methodology pieces, customer stories, and the regulatory shifts you should know about — written by the team and the operators who file the returns.

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Field guide

The seven entity types that derail FATCA filings.

Sponsored entities, owner-documented FFIs, and the trust structures that consume the most review time — with a checklist for each.

12 min read · 21 February 2026
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Customer story

Bramley & Co., 2,418 entities, one afternoon.

How a Cayman Islands trust company prepared their Q1 2026 CRS submission in one sitting — and what they did with the time they got back.

8 min read · 7 March 2026
CRS · 2.0
Regulatory update

OECD CRS 2.0: what changed, and what it means for your filing.

The 2025 amendments expand crypto-asset reporting and tighten controlling-person definitions. Here's the practitioner's read.

11 min read · 18 February 2026
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Field guide

Trust structures under CRS: a practitioner's guide.

When a discretionary trust becomes Passive NFE, what counts as a controlling person, and how to document protector roles defensibly.

14 min read · 28 January 2026
Methodology

How we score classifications — and what 94% actually means.

A look under the hood: the taxonomy, the evidence retrieval, the human-in-the-loop gates, and the deliberate calibration trade-offs.

10 min read · 11 February 2026
LIVE · 27 MAR
Webinar

Preparing for the 31 March CRS deadline.

A live walkthrough with our head of compliance: pre-flight checks, common schema rejections, and what to do if your portal closes mid-upload.

45 minutes · Registration open
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Field guide

W-8BEN-E in 2026: the form, the traps, the workarounds.

A line-by-line read of the IRS form, with a focus on the parts that most commonly fail FATCA self-certification review.

16 min read · 3 February 2026
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Methodology

Why three reviewers beat one model, every time.

An honest case for human-in-the-loop review at scale, with the failure modes we found when we tried to remove the reviewer entirely.

7 min read · 24 January 2026
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Before1,840 entities
After0 entities
Elapsed11 days
Customer story

How a private bank cleared a 1,840-entity CRS backlog.

Eleven days, two compliance officers, and one platform — written from the operator's seat, not the marketing team's.

9 min read · 17 January 2026
IRS · 8966
Regulatory update

The 2025 IRS Form 8966 schema update, decoded.

New required elements, retired ones, and the rejection codes we've seen most often since the cutover. Practitioner-grade, not legalese.

8 min read · 6 January 2026
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Field guide

Active vs Passive NFE: the 50% test, the exceptions, and the audit story.

The classification decision regulators ask about most, written for the analyst who has to defend the answer to a partner at 8pm.

13 min read · 22 December 2025
Methodology

The shape of an audit-ready trail.

What "audit-ready" actually means in 2026, and the four artefacts every classification should produce before it leaves your platform.

6 min read · 4 December 2025

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30-minute walkthrough with someone from the team. No deck — we open the platform, you bring an edge case.