By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

NO SINGLE foreign law is likely to impact the Bahamian financial services industry more than the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a well-known accountant telling Tribune Business yesterday its effects would be "the same or greater" than previous international efforts.

Lawrence Lewis, a partner at Deloitte & Touche (Bahamas), said that while the likes of the US Qualified Intermediary (QI) initiative, and OECD/FATF efforts, had tended to focus on one particular aspect of the financial services industry, Washington's FATCA initiative would touch multiple areas simultaneously.

"In order of magnitude, I would say it is t ...

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