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Ralph Dangelmaier, Chief Executive Officer, BlueSnap

Some 31% of companies that sell internationally use 4 or more solutions to meet their global payment needs. They may face issues including low authorization rates, checkout abandonment, compliance challenges, technical debt and so on. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap.

FTTP Q2 2023:  Debt capacity and transfer pricing

In this TP Talks Special Edition podcast, David Ledure (Transfer Pricing Partner, PwC Belgium), Martin Cazaux (Transfer Pricing Principal, PwC US), and Tony Koivula (Transfer Pricing Manager, PwC Finland) discuss debt capacity and transfer pricing, focusing on the US’s and EU’s history of looking at debt capacity, the varying approaches to analyzing debt capacity, Australia’s draft legislation on proposed new interest limitation rules, debt serviceability, and reassessment of debt capacity and double taxation.

Lars Seier Christensen is a Danish businessman, entrepreneur, and investor who co-founded what was to become Saxo Bank, a financial multi-asset trading and investment platform and the founder and CEO of Concordium.

After 20 years as co-CEO of Saxo Bank, he stepped down and founded Seier Capital to focus on investments in blockchain projects, including most notably the foundational blockchain protocol, Concordium. As the CEO of Concordium, Lars oversees the company’s development to become the first project to have an innovative user identity layer built-in at the protocol level. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Concordium utilises smart contracts and the cryptographic concept of zero-knowledge proofs, wherein users can verify that something is true without physically seeing the evidence.

Lars Christensen’s passion for the restaurant business drove him to own several gourmet restaurants, most notably Denmark’s first three Michelin star restaurants, Geranium, the hi-tech restaurant Alchemist, and the iconic Cafe Dan Turell in Copenhagen.

Lars Seier Christensen Interview Questions

1. About professional and academic background
2. About Saxo Bank and as a pioneer in FX and trading
2.1 Founding history
2.2 Technology and trading platform
2.3 Culture and ecosystem
3. Views on blockchain, first contact
3.1 Opportunities and challenges for businesses
4. Founding Concordium
4.1 Mission and Vision
4.2 Goals
5. Can you explain to us about the "big migration"? Businesses moving to blockchain
6. Research from Citibank highlights the metaverse could be a $13 trillion industry by 2030. You wrote an article with the CEO of banknote and stamp printer, Royal Joh Enschede, about using secure virtual banknotes in the Metaverse.
7. How do you see the ID in the inception of the data Avatars we are creating that will increasingly get bigger and bigger as the metaverse tech becomes mainstream?
8. The future of Concordium, blockchain and businesses in the context of the metaverse
9. Utility of Concordium in distinguishing between Digital Identity vs Physical identity.
10. About maintaining security in the digital world.
11. Future plans
12. About Seier Capital
13. Advice as a serial entrepreneur and investor.

About Concordium

Concordium is a public-layer 1, science-backed blockchain, designed to balance privacy with accountability through its ID layer. The protocol level ID, ensures that every wallet is associated with a real-world identity that has been verified through a third party ID provider, so that people and companies can trust one another, while remaining private, with zero-knowledge-proof. With safe transactions, Concordium can unlock a global, multi-trillion-dollar economy, so bankers to regulators actually want to use blockchain.

Concordium offers unique and global ID credentials for DeFi degens, metaverse players, and gamers, available to smart contracts, whilst preserving privacy. This, according to them, is the key to the mass migration of web2 to web3 and beyond. 

Concordium’s native coin, CCD, is used for paying transaction fees, staking, rewards for node operators, and as a collateral/settlement medium for Concordium’s DeFi landscape.

With leadership from Volvo, IKEA, Credit Suisse, and 52M EUR raised to date, the team is now scaling the chain to their extensive network of the world's biggest enterprises.

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In this TP Talks episode, David Ernick (Transfer Pricing Principal in PwC’s US National Tax Services practice), Kartikeya Singh (Transfer Pricing Principal in PwC’s US National Tax Services practice), and Giorgia Maffini (Transfer Pricing and Tax Policy Director with PwC UK) continue the Pillar Two discussion, focusing on the  commentary published in March and how it has slightly reinterpreted the role of transfer pricing in Pillar Two; developments in Europe, including the UK stakeholder consultation and the ECOFIN progress regarding implementation of Pillar Two within the European Union; US developments; and the transfer pricing implications in instances of double taxation in the Pillar Two system.

Stay tuned for future TP Talks podcasts covering Pillar Two developments. 

In this TP Talks podcast, David Ledure (Transfer Pricing Partner, PwC Belgium), Michel van der Breggen (Transfer Pricing Partner, PwC Netherlands), Ronan Finn (Ireland TP country leader and PwC’s global TP ESG leader), and Rui Yuan (Transfer Pricing Manager, PwC Netherlands) talk about sustainable financing and what it means for transfer pricing. They first share some observations on the sustainable wave in the capital markets. The panelists then discuss some of the potential transfer pricing challenges that are expected to emerge with the current rapid developments in sustainable financing. 

In this episode, we feature an excerpt from PwC’s Global Transfer Pricing Conference, focusing on ESG factors as drivers of value creation and levers to manage risks, concentrating on supply chain/value chain analysis, tax transparency, intercompany financial transactions, and deals. The panelists included Ronan Finn (Ireland TP country leader and PwC’s global TP ESG leader), Jayde Thompson (Transfer Pricing partner – PwC Australia), Noor Sanders (Transfer Pricing partner – PwC Netherlands), and Shane McEvoy (Transfer Pricing partner – PwC US). 

In this TP Talks episode, Lauren Dangelmayr (Principal, Transfer Pricing - PwC US), Hamish McElwee (Partner, Transfer Pricing - PwC Australia), Szymon Wlazlowski (Transfer Pricing - Energy, Utilities and Resources Leader for EMEA), Ivan Williams (Partner, Transfer Pricing -  PwC Canada), and Thushara Corea (Director,Transfer Pricing - PwC Canada) discuss the oilfield services industry, focusing on planning related to leasing and IP, ESG, as well as pragmatic approaches to transfer pricing documentation.

In this TP Talks episode, Lauren Dangelmayr (Transfer Pricing Principal, PwC US), Hamish McElwee (Transfer Pricing Partner, PwC Australia), Szymon Wlazlowski (Transfer Pricing - Energy, Utilities and Resources Leader for EMEA), and Ivan Williams (Transfer Pricing Partner, PwC Canada) discuss the changing regulatory environment around the world and the impact on the oilfield services industry.  The speakers also discuss the controversy environment and how companies in the industry are managing risk.

This TP Talks Special Edition quarterly podcast features a discussion of current trends for France, Singapore, and Mexico.

This episode features an excerpt from our recent Global Transfer Pricing Conference, discussing the OECD global tax agreement, where we are now and where things are heading.

This TP Talks episode features a discussion of Pillar One transfer pricing issues related to the July 1 Statement by the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS on a two-pillar solution to address the taxation of the digitalization of the economy.

This TP Talks episode features a discussion of the latest developments for transfer pricing in Germany.

This Financial Transactions Transfer Pricing quarterly podcast features a discussion of the end of LIBOR, focusing on why and when the majority of LIBOR term rates will expire and the replacement rates; certain exceptions with regard to US dollar LIBOR tenors; the general tax and transfer pricing considerations; potential challenges converting from the old overnight LIBOR to the new overnight reference rates, and available options for reference rates with a longer maturity; developments across Asia-Pac region; and key takeaways.

In this TP Talks podcast, Drew Kim (Partner, PwC’s State and Local Tax practice), Jana Lessne (Transfer Pricing Managing Director, PwC’s Washington National Tax Services), and Matthew Lindeman (Director, PwC’s State and Local Tax practice) discuss the current landscape related to domestic US transfer pricing, including how state tax authorities are looking to raise revenue and increasingly scrutinizing domestic intercompany transactions. They also highlight considerations for companies related to developing effective state audit defense strategies and provide key takeaways. 

In this TP Talks episode, transfer pricing professionals discuss the latest progress related to transfer pricing in China to help manage risk and enhance tax certainty, including the issuance of a Q&A on the administration of forex cash in-flows and out-flows of transfer pricing adjustments, China State Taxation Administration’s issuance of a Consultation Draft on the simplified procedure for unilateral Advance Pricing Arrangements and the potential benefits, as well as other observations. For more information, see our Tax Insights: China issues Q&A regarding the administration on forex cash in-flows and out-flows of TP adjustments and China STA issues consultation draft on simplified procedure for unilateral APAs.

Now, as the world is facing a new economic crisis, how could the arts and civil society benefit from blockchain technologies? Hear from artists, curators, technologists and researchers who are using blockchain to revolutionise their way of working. This episode features Ruth Catlow, artistic director of Furtherfield, Ben Vickers, CTO at the Serpentine Galleries, and artist collectives from Berlin to Moscow who are part of the DAOWO Global Initiative. Transcript available at goethe.de/uk/podcast

This podcast features a discussion of the UK’s proposed changes to its transfer pricing documentation rules, including novel features for taxpayers to consider.