In what is one of the most fundamental changes to U.K. tax law of the last decade, the government is to introduce a new regime effective from 1 April 2017 that restricts the tax deductions that are available for interest expense based on a percentage of the U.K. group’s EBITDA.

Almost two years ago, we wrote in these pages about the importance of companies taking a fresh look at their foreign tax credit profile as many began to eat through loss carryforwards and emerge as cash taxpayers once more.

Companies emerging from bankruptcy may be required to apply fresh start accounting. A&M provides a comprehensive suite of services, to advise and assist companies in adopting this non-routine area of accounting and reporting – allowing management to focus on the post-emergence business.

A&M helps our financial services clients stay ahead of the most pressing issues of the day. Whether you are looking to manage regulatory and compliance risk, maximize the value of your technology investments, enhance cybersecurity defenses, unlock value in underperforming assets or improve the customer experience, A&M can help.

The momentum behind tax reform took a back seat to healthcare the last few months, except for some debates surrounding border adjustments.

A full evaluation of what is happening in Europe’s insurance industry including summary observations from Alvarez & Marsal.

A month ago, the entire blueprint for tax reform seemed to be on a solid path to amend U.S. tax law.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today released its first UAE Banking Pulse. The report, which leverages independent, published market data will be issued on a quarterly basis, examines the 10 largest listed UAE banks, and is based on a series of different key performance indicators.

Regulatory exams can be daunting to those that are unprepared and uninformed about the process. Regulated entities that want to perform well in an exam often seek assistance from third-party vendors to conduct mock reviews and to help them prepare for the examination.

Conduct risks are at the very top of the regulatory agenda. But many financial institutions are uncertain about what regulators mean by the term "conduct risk" and unclear about what they as firms should be doing about it. Here is A&M’s perspective on both of these critically important questions.

In this issue of A&M Readings in Quantitative Risk Management, we examine the final current expected credit loss standard issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in 2016, and the implications for financial institutions in how they estimate the expected loss on credit facilities.

In the first issue of the UAE Banking Market Pulse, a quarterly series, we share results from our research examining the 10 largest listed UAE banks and highlight key performance indicators of the UAE banking industry.

The primary proxy advisor firms, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, recently announced changes to their governance evaluation policies and processes for the 2017 proxy season. The following is a summary of the ISS changes for 2017, with a focus on those changes relating to compensation and its governance.

A&M's Phil Beckett and David Dutt have participated as panel experts in this mini roundtable discussion on electronic information management.

As many U.S. corporates sit in a tight holding pattern waiting for further details on potential tax reform, other large players in the technology industry are preemptively taking action based on predicted features of the plan.