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Income up 53% at KPMG Legal
December 22nd, 2015
One of the Big Four accountancy firms offering legal services through an alternative business structure has reported a sharp rise in income from the division and pledged further heavy investment. KPMG says in its newly published annual report that ...
Apple Seeks to Launch Apple Pay in China by February
November 24th, 2015
Tech giant has paved way by striking deals with big four state-run banks, but regulatory hurdles may remain Apple Inc. seeks by early February to launch its new Apple Pay electronic-payment service in China—a vibrant but fiercely competitive market ...
Deloitte eyes global accountancy blockchains
November 13th, 2015
Good karma was the consensus among those watching and in attendance at Ethereum’s DevCon1 conference when big four accountancy firm Deloitte took to the stage in the guise of the technology-focused Rubix Project. Matthew Spoke, strategy and execution lead ...
Audit Regulator Finds 28 Deficient Audits By KPMG in Annual Report
November 11th, 2015
PCAOB says Big Four firm’s deficiency rate of 54% is up from 46% a year ago Audit regulators found 28 deficient audits at KPMG LLP in its latest annual inspection of the Big Four accounting firm, an increase from ...
Venture Fund Sues PwC for Alleged Audit Deficiencies
November 4th, 2015
Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund sued Burrill & Co.’s founder in July A venture fund launched by Burrill & Co. is suing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for allegedly failing to flag unauthorized transfers that it claims led to millions in investor ...
PWC has scooped the Virgin Money audit from KPMG
October 27th, 2015
PwC wrestles Virgin Money audit from KPMG PWC has scooped the Virgin Money audit from KPMG after its Big Four rival had held the account for 11 years. Virgin Money intends to appoint PwC from 1 January 2016, subject ...
ACCC investigating banks’ closure of bitcoin companies’ accounts
October 20th, 2015
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating why Australian banks are closing the accounts of bitcoin businesses, amid concerns banks are colluding to block emerging competitors. ACCC chairman Rod Sims told The Australian Financial Review the investigation was ...
Investor Seeks to Hold Ernst & Young Liable for Madoff Losses
October 15th, 2015
Court papers show FutureSelect invested about $200 million Ernst & Young failed to serve as a gatekeeper for a Washington investment firm that sank millions of dollars into Bernard Madoff’s investment firm and should be held liable for its losses, ...
KPMG hiring people with experience of implementing blockchains such as Ripple
October 13th, 2015
Big Four professional services firm KPMG is hiring people with experience of working with distributed ledger offerings such as Ripple, in order to help clients select and implement the right technology. David Montes, a managing director in the Financial ...
Deloitte, Libra, Accenture: The work of auditors in the age of Bitcoin 2.0 technology
August 20th, 2015
Back in the late 1990s the cryptographer Nick Szabo predicted the paper-era techniques of auditing and accounting would be dramatically augmented by, and eventually integrated into, smart contracts. The last year or two has seen lots of opinion about ...
