Christina McNamara

Christina McNamara is a Director, Global Head of Due Diligence with IHS Markit Tax Solutions. Ms McNamara has extensive experience working with global, regional and local financial institutions on their U.S. tax, including FATCA and QI, and OECD CRS compliance initiatives, specialising in implementation, operations and client onboarding. Ms McNamara was previously based in Singapore from 2014 – 2020 and has led regional FATCA and CRS implementation and remediation projects for global banks with operations in Asia Pacific. She is a regular speaker at various industry events on CRS in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia. She has also engaged in regional consultations held by regulators and industry bodies on regulations and guidance material relating to AEOI.

Prior to joining IHS Markit, Ms McNamara was a member of the FATCA / CRS team at PwC Singapore where she advised clients by providing services including, but not limited to policies and procedures, tax technical implementation support, gap analysis and readiness assessments, and staff training sessions.